Talk to me about BACON!
 

One of the Harrier pilots here was talking about bacon and how his Dad orders some ridiculously good stuff over the internet and he gains 3lbs everytime he goes home on leave.

And so I've got a buddy who helped out the wife lot at home while I've been on deployment... no not that kind of "help". His wife helped a lot too... no, not that kind of... CRAP. I can't win.

Yes, I could Google search "bacon" I'm sure and order something, but I thought we might have a few people here who could chime in on the subject.

So help me order my buddy some good custom/artisan/whatever bacon. Where do I start?

Lets back up half a step here.



People order perishable food online?

I've had some Nueskes before but I don't remember which selection. It was good. The gourmet bacon assortment looks like a good place to start.

Smoked Bacon, Slab & Sliced : Award Winning : Nueske's

Can't help with where to buy, but to cook I haven't found a better way than cooking in water: .

I've both picked up bacon from nueskes, and had it mailed to me. It's delicious.

How do you think the perishable food gets to your local grocery store?

I got this last year:

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1412687162

Find a Small, Local, Low Volume butcher shop run by a Husband and Wife who have been doing businesss for at least 20 years. They probably close by about 6:00pm on weekdays, and might only be open for 4 or 6 hours on Saturday. Bonus points if you have to drive down a long driveway with "Speed Limit 5 MPH" signs posted every 500 feet or so.

That's a good place to start.

Not by the USPS or UPS guy that can't find my house.

Wife and I did 3 meals from Blue Apron: Fresh Ingredients, Original Recipes, Delivered to You

$60 shipped. We've only cooked one meal, some pork cubano sandwiches with a Kale salad, but damn it was surprisingly good.

$10 a person ain't bad either, especially if you're bored with your "usual" cooking. We weren't, but got sucked in to the commercial and had to give it a shot.

/thread drift.

Dude, where'd you get it, and how much is that?

I'm looking at VanDeRose, Bentons, and Nueske's... probably going to go with a sample pack... 5 lbs should do it, you think?

Is it that hard to figure out which houses are and aren't inhabited in Detroit?

Cut your grass? :giggle:

Cut grass is not always a distinguishing feature of an inhabited residence in Detroit.

Bacon of the month club for the gift that keeps on giving.

The cookie filter out here on the ships LAN won't let me add anything to the shopping cart on the various bacon websites I've been looking at. We should be hitting a portcall here shortly, so I'll be able to grab some wifi and make it happen. I think I've settled on a some Bentons as an initial foray... might even order myself some for when I get home in a few weeks. CRUISE IS ALMOST OVER!!! FUCK YEAH!!!

Just sent that to my wife. We'll see how it does.

Of course, nothing goes better with bacon than fresh eggs free range eggs. We get 2 or 3 each day...

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1412876904

Don't boil your bacon.
Toss it in a 300 degree oven for about 45 minutes.

Thats a long ass time to cook bacon. I'd rather have a delicious slice out of the frying pan in about 20 seconds.

Oven bacon > your bacon

Sounds like we may have a bacon-off in the works.

Oven bacon is pretty awesome. You don't have to monitor and flip it, you can fix the rest of breakfast. 300/40, 350/25, something like that, just see what gives it to you how you like it. Put it on that oven cooker thing you never use with the slots, and line the drip pan with aluminum foil. Presto cleanup.

And fancy bacon >>> supermarket bacon because no water.

Heathen. You save bacon grease, because it is liquid gold.

microwaves bacon.

:ban?:

Contrary to how awesome it sounds, don't deep fry bacon.

Texture/crunch is awesome, but the flavor leaks out somehow.

WTF is a microwave?

Say no to kitchen AIDS.

Oven bacon for the win.

Incidentally, this is the best backpacking food of all time.

Why... Why have I never thought of this? I think it's time to go hiking.

Also, break a bunch of eggs and put them in a Nalgene bottle. They keep just fine for a few days, and you don't have to mess with those flimsy yellow cartons.
Bacon and eggs on the trail is pure win.

This is what Sam needs.
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Tried the water bacon thing this weekend. It was horrible. It tasted like pork rinds. All of the flavor was gone. I was a sad pony.

Oven bacon man... I'm telling ya.

Just placed a phone order yesterday from Nueske's for their 5lb sampler pack of smoked bacon. I got a free 1lb of something because it was my first order. It shipped the same day too. My buddy should have it in 2 days and I'm sure he won't waste any time.

I've got a couple weeks left of cruise. This one has sucked. If I knew how to do anything else, I'd consider getting out, but I'm too senior... it's been that bad. At least I was tax-free for 5 months!

Been there. Are you up for shore duty soon?
As much as deployments suck sometimes, getting out and learning how to do something else as an adult sucks more.

This.

Every once in awhile, when I think my job sucks, I only have to think about the "great jobs" civilian side. There are too many backstabbing sons-of-bitches in the real world for a selfless introvert like myself to get anywhere. I'll retire from this job one day, and start a company doing something, probably construction related or similar, and the only positions available to extroverts will be sales jobs.

And I'll force them to work out of offices, with closed doors. They don't get the luxury of cubicles to chat across. If they want to talk to someone, it had better be a client.

[/evil thoughts of world domination through extrovert personality extortion]

Already got my next orders for February. 36months of riding a desk, light travel for awesome stuff, great job that I have a passion for, short commute, don't have to move... AND BEST OF ALL, I GET TO FLY AGAIN!!!

This job in Feb is going to open a large number of doors for me when I get out. At the completion of these next orders, I'll only have 2 yrs left... retired O-4 w/ kids in 9th and 7th grades. Wife HOPEFULLY OMG OMG WTF AWESOME will be complete with Nurse Anesthetist License and I can sit on my ass forever and ever and ever, coach teams, build shit, shoot guns, drink good rum, and make sure my girls grow up ready to take the world by the balls...

If the wife decides to stick with regular nursing, I'll need to get a job after the Navy (a "real" job)... Hawkeye simulator instructor is #1, followed closely by an aviation safety job.

I'll tellya what though, I'm just shy of 40 and run a 10 miler weekly, no health problems at all, awesome healthy kids, good friends, guaranteed retirement check in my near future, and a hot wife who is great in the sack. Someday she'll let me get another toy car and I'll have an actual reason for sticking around on this website. I'm still dumbfounded that I haven't owned a Miata going on 6 years now and still managed about 2000 posts here in that amount of time. Maybe my life sucks after all.

One more vote for oven bacon here, it is the best.

Tried oven bacon tonight. It was... okay.

Cooked as Mobius described above?

I'm having a hard time with this "oven bacon" thing. The bacon pan is where the eggs get cooked, where am I supposed to cook the eggs now?

In the poacher.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B002CG...m_bFgEF_g79_i2

Listen here buddy, there is a reason my Sparco Sprint is a bit snug around the middle. ;)

I'm not a huge fan of the poached egg thing, but I DO enjoy eggs benedict from time to time. I'm not sure I want to dedicate an entire kitchen gadget to the production of poached eggs. Do you have one of these things? Are there other uses for it?

I do. Not that exact one, but essentially identical. Got mine at bed bath & beyond.

There are not. (Well, I guess you can use it as a regular pan.)

I do not regret owning it. Easiest, most consistent way to poach an egg there is.

Try it with Swiss cheese and avocado on an English muffin.

http://paleospirit.com/wp-content/up...ed-Bacon-4.jpg
Go low... and slow... almost like BBQ.
Yes it takes patience, but you're rewarded with the best damned pork product this side of grilled pork chops.

It takes the bacon from the oven, pours the grease into the egg skillet, or it gets sad eggs with no bacon grease ...

Are you having a Hyper moment or something?

grill your bacon. watch for flames.

Just saw Benton's Ham and Bacon on "Man, Fire, Food" on Food network.
Reminded me of this thread. We have a high end jerky guy in my hometown that is worth the 35 minute drive every couple months. I think I might try this mail order smoked meat thing too.

where was this gotten and was it as good as it looks ? im salivating! looks like 5 pounds of bacon!

First rule of bacon, there's never enough.

The best bacon can't even come close to the deliciousness that of carnitas.

Crispy, delicious, carnitas.

There's a little Salvadoran place that just opened up in the neighborhood... and their carnitas are almost as delicious as their pupusas.

Bacon be damned.

Bah. Pulled pork does not compare to bacon.

Ohh, forgot to post my recent experiment.
Tried bacon on the grill the other day. My first attempt i caught it all on fire. Put a drip pan down on my second attempt. Cooked it for a long time. It was... Okay.
Maybe i'll get better and do more than 3 strips.

I'm one to cook the bacon slow and get it chewy. I'm not a crunchy bacon person. I feel like crunchy bacon is overcooked and rushed, as if no love and care was taken in the process.
Not to start a chewy / crunchy argument or anything.

Chewy


Screw crunchy bacon

and screw people who like crunchy bacon

I will ban every one of you who does not like crunchy bacon. Chewy bacon is like a limp dick, disgusting.

I alternate cooking my bacon between the oven, frying pan, and my smoker. Smoked bacon is the best, but it takes far longer to do then the other methods.

I would eat crunchy bacon






But only if it was smoked by shuiend first

Hell yes! Best part is the chewy fat.

My friends and I use to do our own Epic Meal Time, and the best time was with some bacon cooked with Jack Daniels then weaved and baked with a pizza.

I also cook bacon in the microwave. The same perfect chewy goodness in only about 5-6 minutes depending on how powerful the microwave is.
It may be some type of horrible sin, but i'm way to lazy sometimes.

Reminded me of: