Now, I know this bacon meme that’s been going on for the last, I dunno, decade is partly jocular, but also partly sincere. Reading some of the bacon threads here, I get the feeling people really love the stuff perhaps a bit more sincerely than I first had thought. I mean, I like bacon, but I go through a package maybe once a month, although I can go more than a half year without buying a package. And it’s almost always chopped up for its fat to fry with onions. Only during BLT season (like now) do I eat bacon on its own. I don’t particularly like it on hamburgers, and I don’t eat it very often with eggs, either.
I’m just curious how often people actually do eat bacon. Poll to come.
I usually just cook a BIG batch of bacon (chopped up) then take the cooked bacon and portion it out into little bags then store in the fridge. Then I use them as need. (Mac and cheese, green beans, breakfast burritos, etc…)
I usually eat three or four slices of the thick stuff when it’s just by itself.
I said “a couple times a year”. It’s probably close to once a month but I’m sure I miss a month here and there.
It’s not that I don’t like bacon it’s just that I like to cook and eat a wide variety of foods and contrary to some belief not everything is improved by bacon.
I generally buy a package or two once every 2 or 3 months at the most. I like as much as anyone on the internet, but it’s not really a staple in my house. I view bacon much like ice cream; a really tasty, but sometimes treat that’s best in limited quantities and infrequently indulged in so as to remain special.
The wife can’t eat beef or pork because she doesn’t like the taste of it, but she can eat bacon. Go figure. So we have it once a week or so. We don’t buy them pre-sliced and prefer to buy them in blocks so we can cut and slice them however we see fit. Nothing like biting into a thick cut of bacon in a sandwich, or on an English muffin topped with poached egg on a weekend morning.
I hardly ever cook bacon at home. So I mostly eat it if I order something like a bacon cheeseburger at a fast food place. Or if I visit my father - he has bacon pretty much every day for breakfast.
I never eat bacon because the nitrates used to cure it give me a headache that lasts for days. If I could get bacon without nitrates or celery juice (high in nitrates), I’d eat it.
Only a couple times a year (alas!) but when I do, I go utterly berserk! One strip? Five strips? Twenty strips? Keep 'em coming! I’ll buy two packages at the supermarket and gobble 'em all myself. I’ll hit an all-you-can-eat breakfast buffet, and bankrupt the place.
Three rashers of streaky bacon and two eggs, every morning for the past three years. Lost 50 pounds over the first two of those three years, and have maintained (and lost a little more) in the last year. Thanks, bacon!
The only proper way to eat bacon is when it’s cooked fresh on the stovetop in small batches, so that the strips aren’t crowded and each one has time to get nice and crispy (and so you know it’s the heat from the skillet cooking it and not that it’s frying in its own juices), and when you have something like a couple of eggs and some slices of stale white bread to throw in afterward and soak up all that precious grease.
And since that’s a 15-20 minute time commitment all told, it’s only something I really do a few times a year.
Right now we have six packages in the freezer because Hormel Black Label was on sale for $4.49 lb. It’ll be gone within the next few weeks what with BLTs, breakfasts, bacon cheeseburgers, and club sandwiches. We never cook and crumble it because we like a whole hearty slice (or three or six.) And no flavored bacon, please, just the salty/greasy original. And we save the bacon grease for everything: beans, greens, creamed corn, to fry with…I’ve got a recipe for cold bacon grease biscuits I’ve been meaning to try.
Now I may sound like a heretic, but I really like turkey bacon. Yes, I know. It’s not real “bacon.” But it’s cheaper than the real thing, tastes about the same, and cooks in the microwave without a lot of grease. I’ll eat about 15 strips a week.
The local tavern’s house hamburger is a bacon cheeseburger with barbecue sauce, and I have that a couple times a month. That’s it for bacon these days.
I put down several times a month. It may be a little more than that if you want to consider a pinch of real bacon bits on a salad. I rarely cook up some bacon unless it’s for a recipe. But if I’m out at a restaurant getting breakfast I will get it. Or on a burger.
Same here. We have a turkey farm nearby that makes incredible thick cut peppered turkey bacon. Very little fat, just enough for cooking, and tastes like bacon. Costs a little more than high end regular bacon. I’ll bet it’s been ten years or more since I’ve had pig bacon, but we have turkey bacon every weekend.
ETA: is it safe to assume that the “never” votes are religious dietary things?
