The BACON question continues....

[EagleDNY]

Why not use pork belly and cut it into 3-4 inch slabs. Then slow roast it 250-275 until it's crispy on the outside. If you want some quick crisp, place it under the broiler at the end for a few minutes. One big mouth full is over whelming and it makes great sandwiches. You can dry brine it 1-4 days sitting on a screen uncovered in the fridge so your brine gets in deep. It doesn't take much salt, just time, and you can add anything else you do with a porkbutt or shoulder when you dry brine it for smoking or slow roasting. Chinese and Korean grocery stores carry this already cut into slabs, you just have to look around for it at regular grocery stores or find a butcher. In Asia they will simmer them in a sauce that is 1:1:1 similar in components to the Japanese soysauce:sake:merin. That is a whole other kind of pork goodness in your mouth, gets better if you sprinkle in some red pepper flakes.

One day I realized store bought bacon, even thick bacon, ended up too small for a long enjoyable eating session. My COSTCO had the pre cut belly slabs one day because of the local Asian customer base, and that was all she wrote. It was like bacon right out of the Flintstones.....

Your suggestion has been taken to heart at the Ordinary Pub in Savannah, GA.  I did a food tour there and they served us a pork belly slider on a donut roll (donut roll: take a glazed donut and cut it in half like a sandwich bun).  So you had a hot donut roll with a sizzling slab of fried pork belly on the inside - your cholesterol count triples from just being in the same room with it, but it is freakin' delicious. 

[Brooke]

My daughter Viv's first complete sentence was "I love bacon."

[zack1234]

Is bacon ok for vegetarians to eat?

And how is bacon grown on trees or in the ground?

[nooby52]

Thick-cut bacon of any flavor (flavour?) wrapped around a Jalapeno pepper which is stuffed with cheese then deep fried (called an Armadillo Egg, in some places). Washed down with Shiner Bock.  Yummmmm.....

[EagleDNY]

Thick-cut bacon of any flavor (flavour?) wrapped around a Jalapeno pepper which is stuffed with cheese then deep fried (called an Armadillo Egg, in some places). Washed down with Shiner Bock.  Yummmmm.....

Hmm... that sounds pretty interesting.   I have a local near my office that wraps thick cut bacon around dates (yum yum). 

This issue of deep frying bacon is worthy of consideration as well - normally when you fry bacon it is in that lovely pork fat, but in a deep fryer you will be using some other kind of oil  I have also recently been given a bacon baking rack (baking the bacon works out pretty well and is simpler than frying it).

All this lovely bacon talk is going to make me go have a bacon-filled lunch.   

[wil3ur]

normally when you fry bacon it is in that lovely pork fat, but in a deep fryer you will be using some other kind of oil
 

You could do it in Lard to maintain your pork profile.

[nooby52]

Broiling works as well, I just like to deep fry whenever possible. Makes the bacon crispier. 

[SPKmes]

Is bacon ok for vegetarians to eat?

And how is bacon grown on trees or in the ground?

Yes... Not only that...but.... if everyone ate bacon there would be world peace.....
 those who refuse to eat bacon are the ones who make this world the tumultuous place it is....

[wil3ur]

Bacon and whirled peas is also delicious!   

[Curval]

Chris P Bacon:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMA3x-bc8iM

[Shuffler]

Honey Maple Smoked bacon wrapped shrimp.

Thick sliced bacon in cabbage.

[Zoney]

Take a jalapeno pepper and slice in half the long way. Pull our the seeds and stuff with creme cheese.  Wrap in bacon, (2 slices if you love bacon).  Bake at 375 degrees F for 50 minutes turning them over several times.  The last 5 minutes broil them on high, turning once.

Mmmmm mmmm good.

I started making these about 6 months ago an now make a couple dozen a week.  I pre-make them but I do not pre-cook them because reheating them makes the bacon soggy.

Big one's take 2 slices of bacon, small one's take one.  Use tooth picks to hold the bacon in place so they stay together when you turn them.

[ghi]

https://youtu.be/lMxY5ysCm-4

[Brooke]

Is bacon ok for vegetarians to eat?

Absolutely.

And how is bacon grown on trees or in the ground?

It starts out as a seed that sprouts up through the soil.  It then symbiotically utilizes a Sus domesticus to transform itself into the final stage of it's life cycle, which is bacon.

[zack1234]

Outstanding