Maken Bacon?

Please…guys, no pictures! That should keep us on the right track!

My wife HATES standing in front of the stove and watching bacon brown. So, I’m the guy that makes the bacon in the house…as I was standing in the garage (can’t get grease on the stove you know) this morning, I was thinking about all the ways to make bacon..and figure that since I don’t have a boat and there’s no ice…I’de poll IDA’ers.

So, comment are welcomed.

I was going to try and link things together, what types of fisherman like small, short, green bacon that anyone can cook? I’m guessing bass fisherman, but don’t have any hard data.
This would likely make it too complicated for some of the golfers on our site. So…I’ll just list some ways and place an “other” catagory in there.

One other thing please post your favorite bacon and where you get it.

Thanks! (looks like there might be a target on my back….)

Nothin better than deep fat fried in the cooker right before
the fish goes in. —–DRAIN WELL !!!!!!

Bacon in the microwave on a paper towel covered plate. You can crisp it up as much or little as you want, and the house doesn’t smell for days after either!

Bacon and fish get fried up in the garage on a coleman stove/frying pan or fish in the deep fryer. Too much mess/stink for inside the house.

-J.

Anyone ever try it in the George Foreman grill? We have one, but I have never tried it. Would keep the splatter down.

I have a large(er) Foreman. I’ve used it a couple times but it’s a little slow for me. No spatter, grease drains down into the tray. I think it may work better if the bacon was a thicker cut than what you would buy off the shelve…personal opinion of course.

Yup, Jon and I will be outside cooking fish and bacon all winter!

I put a piece of foil with the edges rolled up on my grill and cook it outside.

Keeps the smell outside and once the grill cools you can just roll up the foil with the grease inside.

If you don’t cook your bacon in a fry pan………how the heck do you cook your eggs??????

If I couldn’t cook my eggs in bacon or sausage grease, I wouldn’t want the eggs.

Yum-yum…….eggs sunny-side-up, with bacon sandwich dipped in the runny egg yoke!!!!!!!! That, my good sir is good eatn’!!!!!!!!

“Bacon for breakfast, bacon for lunch, and I drink my dinner” – the immortal Burgess Meredith

Oh…geez Gary…you’re sick…

He is sick, but oh so right!!!

Yep!
Love that good homemade “glue” for the arteries!!!

Hey, if my dad who is at a healthy 80 years that has eaten bacon-sausage-liver/eggs/spuds every morning his whole life is stronger and healthier than most 60 year old guys, I’m going to bank on genetics that I’m going to be just fine carrying on the tradition!!!!!

I’m warming up the defibrillator right now! Ready when you are!

Gary some people do not have to worry about what they eat or worry about there cholesterol, your dad must be one of them so is my pastor his cholesterol never goes up no matter what he eats. Dam I am jealous I have to watch everything I eat and I take 10mg of lipitor everyday. Hope you have the same genetic make up as your dad and my pastor, but to be on the safe side go get your cholesterol checked we want to have you around here posting on IDA for a long time.

I’m not worried about the cholesterol……..My beer kills that…….

If only beer cured all! I’d be one healthy guy!!!

Good advice Steve! Dad fried their fish in pure butter and once the fish were gone…would drag a piece of bread through the pan… He’s doing well since his triple bi pass.

I really was commenting about the sunny side up eggs…(I can hardly type that!) never liked eggs and the thought gives me the chills…yuk!

I love sunny side eggs but that is not sabose to be good for you either.

Brian!
you are as bad as my 10 year old daughter!!! She too, won’t eat eggs unless they are scrambled, or if I fry them, I have to take the yoke out for her! That is fine, taking the yoke out, because that means I get to “double up” yokes on my eggs!!!!

You aren’t he first to call me a 10 year old Gary!

Mom alway said that she will feel sorry for the woman I marry, because I’m so fussy in my eating habits. Then along came my wife who’s worse…but she likes eggs too.

If you really want to do this right…….

Get about 2 slices of “PAN FRIED” bacon and 2 “PAN FRIED” sausage links, dump in 3 eggs into the grease, with the bacon and sausage, throw in a diced potatoe, some chopped onion, green pepper, and a little jalopeno. Stir it all up with the grease, and throw some sliced cheese accros the top……..When it is “sticky”, she is at the right texture and ready to be eaten! Then top it off with a little side dish of biscuts/gravy.

heart-attack in a pan!

Steve, I think we would need a couple more pills before we at that

Do you guys have a favorite bacon or butcher shop to get your bacon at? I can’t buy the off the shelf bacon anymore. It seems like if you fry a pound of …say Armor and a pound of butcher shop bacon, the Armor will have twice the grease than the shop bacon…and the slices are smaller/thinner.

I like it in a cast iron pan. I used to save all the grease for things like fried potatoes, cornbread, hushpuppies, ect ect. If you cut the bacon up into smaller pieces then fry it up, drain off all but a couple of tablespoons of the grease (into whatever it is you save your bacon grease in) then sprinkle some flour in the pan about a couple of tablespoons.add a little salt, pepper and brown it. Next add some milk and keep stirring untill it alll thickens up. Spoon the gravey over fresh hot biscuts (home made) then top it off with a couple of sunnyside eggs. Yum Yum. Butter a biscut or two to have with your favorite jelly,jam or maybe some applebuttter. Breakfast just doesn’t get much better than that. Steve

I just got done eating and (except for the eggs) an hungry again…that does sound good Steve!

Best bacon I’ve had Nueske’s Smoked Meats in Wittenberg Wi. applewood smoked. makes the best BLT sandwich ever.

Look at it this way Briank, eggs are the only edible thing to ever drop from a chicken’s butt.

2 of the best bacon makers I have found..F&D meats in Virginia, MN….and Thielan Meats in Pierz, MN..Thielans makes the best liver sausage and headcheese ever. YYYuuuuummm!!!

Herb..my boys might argue that point with you…

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eggs are the only edible thing to ever drop from a chicken’s butt

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I’ve had the Applewood smoked bacon from Mackantuns (Sp?) in St Bonnie and a meat market in Lk Elmo. The place in Lk Elmo is better, but I’ve had better other places….

Just don’t remember where!

Headcheese…ikes! I didn’t think people really ate that stuff? I thought it was for parent to threaten their kids with!

There isnt a meat product made by Nueske’s that is less than perfect. I could live on nothing but their products!