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When I want the best bacon I go to a Ma and Pa meat market and have them slice me off a couple of pounds of locally grown and smoked fresh.
And it's fun. They like to talk about their product and can often even tell you who raised the hog. Very hands on and personal. Yes, and $9.99 a pound.
The quality of the bacon in grocery stores has been deteriorating for years. It's mystifying how they can manage to pack 12 oz of wafer thin and make it look like a full pound of thick cut!
And what's the magic trick to producing a strip of bacon ribboned with fat that leaves no drippings when fried? That's seriously wrong.
It's on my bucket list in the following year for us to learn how to smoke our own bacon. Here in pork-raising country we can get a good price on a slab of home grown.
The sad truth is that the poor animals have been raised under such gruesome conditions that I have lost hope of ever tasting another truly good piece of pork. It nearly makes eating the meat a matter of conscience.
Now there's a real Debby Downer post and poor way to start a day. But I remember free range meat and how good it was. It's another thing we've lost to industrialization for the masses.
On the brighter side we've begun to eat a much healthier diet than our elders ever did. Who could eat bacon every day in current culture?
We just use our store brand of thick sliced bacon and we bake it on a cookie sheet in the oven until it's almost crispy. We also use a seal-a-meal vacuume bagger for freezing bulk purchases. Works well for longer term storage.
Like most things the higher priced bacons
Are the better ones
Some bacon now is over 10$ !!
For quality at a value , I’d look for the loss leaders
Look at hormel… jimmy dean, Oscar Mayer
Hatfield and wrights
I go with a value brand called sugardale it’s not the best but I like it
And it costs 4$ less than the high priced bacon
If you see the jimmy dean apple smoked
Bacon on sale… buy that !
There’s also a bacon called “burgers” bacon with a very low
Water/moisture content… that’s very good!
Jones and applegate farms has a no sugar bacon that is very good!
We covered our turkey with Hatfield bacon (around #6 a pound) and broiled the rest. I can't believe two of us ate a pound of bacon before our our turkey, but it was all good.
I've been buying the same bacon for years (First Street applewood) and loved it and all of a sudden it is no longer available. The replacement brand is truly awful, and I have 5 pounds of it that I don't know what to do with.
You can send it to me! I'm having trouble imaging ANY bacon as "truly awful." Maybe you don't want to eat it by tye slice with your eggs or in a BLT, but when other flavors are involved, it would be fine. Chowder. Jalapeno poppers. Bacon bits for salad. In a quiche.
I've been buying the same bacon for years (First Street applewood) and loved it and all of a sudden it is no longer available. The replacement brand is truly awful, and I have 5 pounds of it that I don't know what to do with.
And so, what brand of bacon is good? I'm looking for lots of flavor, something that fries up well, and if it can be stored in the freezer without going off, that is a huge bonus.
Hoping for recommendations.
You might try making some "Bean and Bacon" soup with the not up to par bacon. Nice way to say inferior.
I've been buying the same bacon for years (First Street applewood) and loved it and all of a sudden it is no longer available. The replacement brand is truly awful, and I have 5 pounds of it that I don't know what to do with.
And so, what brand of bacon is good? I'm looking for lots of flavor, something that fries up well, and if it can be stored in the freezer without going off, that is a huge bonus.
Hoping for recommendations.
I recommend you fry up what you have, break into very small pieces and use them for puppy training.
Now, as far as a particular brand, I'd probably go with Kirkland. At least CostCo stands behind their Kirkland products.
Unless you have a hunter that goes after Black Russian Boar, everything in stores is going to "pale" in comparison.
There’s also a bacon called “burgers” bacon with a very low
Water/moisture content… that’s very good!
I bought a few pounds of the Burger Smokehouse (MO) bacon end pieces at $2/ lb at a dollar store earlier this year. Do realize that this bacon is more "country style" than the other brands. I prefer the very smoked country bacon flavor; many do not.
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