Your favourite bacon!

AhhBisto · 20 Jul 2019 at 18:42

Bacon to me is truly the salad of the meat world, you can add it to anything even a dysfunctional relationship to make it better.

chicken...yes, pizza...yes, birthday present...yes

But what's everyone favourite bacon, back/middle smoked/unsmoked?

Btw is is Saturday I am allowed to drink and think of bacon.

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tom_e · 20 Jul 2019 at 19:12

Smoked of any variety is good with me

haaammit · 20 Jul 2019 at 22:19

Home cured and smoked is the way forwards. I mostly make back bacon!

azazl187 · 20 Jul 2019 at 22:20

Smoked streaky bacon for me

Temujin · 20 Jul 2019 at 22:42

Always smoked for me, streaky preferably but trying to be better with eating so back with fat removed and not very often!

PlacidCasual · 20 Jul 2019 at 22:42

Currently my butchers dry cured smoked streakery. Has the rind on, tough as leather and 40% fat. Some of the best bacon I have ever had.

krooton · 20 Jul 2019 at 22:57

Unsmoked drycure streaky or gtfo

wesimmo · 20 Jul 2019 at 23:23

Who's cooking it?

If I do it in baking paper in the oven, smoked streaky.

If people cook bacon so any rind is still whiteish, they're wrong.

antc · 20 Jul 2019 at 23:56

Smoked for me every time!

robfosters · 21 Jul 2019 at 01:07

Middles the best. You get a lovely a bit of back and streaky in one go. Delicious. I wish more supermarkets sold it. It’s so hard to get now. When my dad had his market stall selling meat (before the days when you needed refrigeration), middle was by far the best seller.

Malevolence · 21 Jul 2019 at 05:29

Smoked streaky, done until it's just turning crispy.

AhhBisto · 21 Jul 2019 at 09:11

robfosters said:
Middles the best. You get a lovely a bit of back and streaky in one go. Delicious. I wish more supermarkets sold it. It’s so hard to get now. When my dad had his market stall selling meat (before the days when you needed refrigeration), middle was by far the best seller.

Aldi sell some packaged middle but it's not the greatest version.

robj20 · 21 Jul 2019 at 09:24

Any is fine with me, I like a bit of rind on it as well as well.
Cooking fried or grilled for me. Crispy or barely cooked is fine either way.

Randomface74 · 21 Jul 2019 at 09:29

the "in a sandwich with ketchup" kind

EssexBoy · 21 Jul 2019 at 09:32

Smoked back bacon for me

Craig1981 · 21 Jul 2019 at 09:55

Smoked. Fat trimmed off and cooked till nice and crispy.

azazl187 · 21 Jul 2019 at 09:58

I used to live I Spain and they don't really sell bacon over there like we have it in the UK. They only really do streaky bacon.

Fry that up so it goes crispy and then shove a load of it in a baguette with some Avocado and it's a match made in heaven

Jasoncmor · 21 Jul 2019 at 11:24

Depends what I'm having it on / in.

Usually smoked.

If I'm having a bbq then it's streaky bacon.
If I'm making pancakes it's also maple bacon.

If I'm having a bacon sarnie, or bacon bagel, spag Bol, pasta & pesto then it's always back bacon.
Back bacon aswell if it's a full English.

Curing my own bacon is something I'd like to do some time.

silverblack · 21 Jul 2019 at 21:05

Smoked most of the time both back and streaky.Always do it in the Air Fryer now come out perfect.

Bubo · 21 Jul 2019 at 21:24

I am always slightly puzzled by the look of "neat" bacon, as in the OP picture. It's like your brain has to mentally slice it for you to fully realise it is actually bacon .