How to fry Bacon

Eggs and bacon in a cast iron skillet over a campfire

The only way to love your spouse more is to wrap her in Bacon.

biggill wrote:

How can I be the only one who cooks their bacon with brown sugar? Baked or fried.

Who are you???

I also freeze any left over bacon to use for burgers and what not. You can just reheat them on the grill. They warm up from frozen real quick, it only takes about 30 seconds.

Who am I kidding, I never have left over bacon.

Mocha wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>belletaine wrote:</div>
Two reasons to reserve the grease…

To cook the eggs in.
To make dressing for wilted lettuce salad, the greatest salad on earth.

Have to agree with you Scott! Wilted lettuce salad with bacon grease and bacon bits….. Double-not-YUM YUM!

For those that would like to try it here’s the recipe.
Leafy green lettuce
Sliced red radishes
Chopped green onions
Crumbled bacon
Mix the above

Dressing:
Vinegar
Sugar-add to take the bite out-quite a bit
Hot bacon grease
Mix thoroughly to dissolve the sugar-I use a jar
Pour over salad and toss.

This is really good with steak or prime rib.

Brian Klawitter wrote:

The only way to love your spouse more is to wrap her in Bacon.

There goes my keyboard!

When I have a lot of bacon to cook, I bake it in the oven at 400 degrees.
I line a baking sheet with parchment paper as it really helps with clean up.

rwilliam wrote:

When I have a lot of bacon to cook…

Who cooks bacon in small quantities? Every Sunday I make a pound pkg for 3 people.

Please, no one here tell me that you cut the raw bacon in half before frying! That’s one of my biggest pet peeves.

Too late pug…we cut it into 3 sections. Now every time I cut it, I’ll be thinking of you and your snake.

mplspug wrote:

Please, no one here tell me that you cut the raw bacon in half before frying! That’s one of my biggest pet peeves.

That, and people who just throw a bunch in a pan. OCD-Ralph needs his strips of bacon neatly lined up in the pan.

This might be the best discussion ever on IDO!

Ralph Wiggum wrote:

That, and people who just throw a bunch in a pan. OCD-Ralph needs his strips of bacon neatly lined up in the pan.

Guilty. I count all the slices and then do two even rounds on the griddle.

And Brian, I was nice to not send a picture in the email…

Incoming…

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I hate you.

Lake of the woods breakfast! Wish there was smell-a-vision.

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Gotta like that corona for breakfast.

Eelputguy…I CAN SMELL IT!!

Beer with breakfast is what everyone does out on the ice or at a resort…don’t they??

Bacon.bacon.bacon…I love bacon no matter how it’s made!!! My brother had me over for the Super Bowl and he had bacon wrapped tater tots…those were good!

Step 1: Get Neuskies Bacon –

Step 2: make a tinfoil pan with folded edges (contains the grease) and put it on the grill. imo, it’s crispier than in the oven and no smell in the house.

step 3: Repeat steps 1 & 2.

Just a little insight on trichinosis. It’s not been an issue for a number of decades now. USDA legislation made it illegal to slop-feed pigs. No raw meat products for pig feed = no more trichinosis. The only recent cases have mostly come from folks eating bear meat. Most of us don’t have to worry about eating bear meat – especially if you’re bear clan Any other niij’s in the IDO crowd anyway?

It was about 48 years ago and I remember it like it was yesterday when Mom said… “Bacon is the only thing you need to start out cooking in a cold pan”.

I would have thought she would have sent me the memo about the law change and the parasite being pretty much non existent in pork/bacon now a days.

Ralph brought up a good question for back then though. What did they do for the second pan?

Anyway moving along, I still haven’t tried Bacon Wrapped Corn on the Cob that @stickboy posted several years ago.

Now I’m working on how to bacon wrap my Hamm’s.

Why would you want to wrap your Hamm’s in bacon?

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Or was this the type of ham that you were referring to?

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Retaliatory Strike Pug!!

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Ralph Wiggum wrote:

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Please, no one here tell me that you cut the raw bacon in half before frying! That’s one of my biggest pet peeves.

That, and people who just throw a bunch in a pan. OCD-Ralph needs his strips of bacon neatly lined up in the pan.

Boy would you two hate me in the morn…. Take a two or three lb package of bacon, slice it in half with fillet knife while still in package and ‘squirt’ each half into a big pan over low heat…..after a bit, it starts melting/oozing and a quick stir separates it all into a big greasy, sloppy mess……fry til done!!!!

Knuckles Timmy…Knuckles.

Top it with brown sugar…

Brian Klawitter wrote:

Grilled Cheese and Fried Peanut Butter Sandwiches… change out the butter for bacon grease that I too save.

Divine!!

Add bacon to that fried peanut butter sandwich BK! My Dad raised me on peanut butter and bacon. I think he stumbled on it to avoid Mom’s BLT day-I’ve never known him to eat a fruit or vegetable more exotic than a potato. Try it, it’s still one of my favorites!

I am so with you Reverend!!

I’ll do it next time.

Skippy had peanut butter with baco’s in it back in the 70’s when baco’s first came out.

Shame on you bacon halvers.

Peanut butter is a secret treasure. Ever had a peanut butter burger? Throw some WHOLE slices of bacon on it and you’ll be in heaven.

Not to throw the topic off track, bu have you ever had peanut butter and jelly chicken wings? num

biggill wrote:

Top it with brown sugar…

Ok Mr. Gill, I was on a mission to get cut up bacon.

Now that I’ve accomplished that feat…what the ‘ell are you talking about?!

Doesn’t the BS burn while frying??