slight hijack since I can’t process what brain fart caused “we’re eating too much bacon” on anything less than a pound a day (per person). now that the kiddos have discovered the wonder of bacon, we go through a lot. Don’t know if this is considered blasphemous, but the Hormel pre cooked bacon is sure convenient. Just nuke with a paper towel for 1-2 minutes, and decent crunchy thin cut bacon is ready.
On our recent road trip to socal, I bought a pack of pre cooked bacon that came in 4 microwave bags. Each bag IIRC had 7 small strips of bacon. It poofed up kinda like a microwave popcorn bag. 'Twernt the best bacon in the world, but in Redding CA at 7:00am with 12 hours between us and the mini van pulling up to the house, it hit the spot.
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I just posted in the ?bacon thread and think maybe she meant We aren’t cooking bacon in enough different ways. Because you can pan fry it (good, but some of it humps up) or broil it (all good—as long as you watch it each strip cooks pretty uniformally) or bake it at 425 degrees (not so good because it’s not greasy, but okay. I call it diet bacon.) Maybe she meant something like that, huh? Give 'er a chance.
I have a bacon press that I think I got from my mom, who probably got it from her mom. I never use it for bacon. I usually cook eight to ten rashers at a time, and I think it can probably press three at the most. I use it for making gravlax, and put my little anvil under the handle for extra weight.
Are you new to having a SO? When a SO says “We’re eating too much bacon” it means YOU’RE eating too much bacon (by probably not leaving enough bacon for the SO).
(Just as “We need to talk” never means YOU need to talk, it means you need to listen while they talk.)
You & your SO are only eating too much bacon if there’s not enough bacon for me to eat too much bacon.
In all seriousness, it is possible to eat too much bacon. Man cannot live on bacon alone, and trying would probably result in considerable girth. But that said, it is very tasty, and (as meat goes) relatively cheap, and the health effects aren’t as bad as they’re sometimes made out to be. If you (like most people) get enjoyment out of eating bacon, then eat bacon.
