Questions tagged [bacon]
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What's the difference between bacon and gammon?
What is the difference between Gammon and Bacon? Would it be generally reasonable to substitute the two as required?

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Cooking Buffet-style Bacon
When I was a kid, every month we would go out to a high-end restaurant or country club buffet for Sunday brunch. At these buffets, I would be confronted with hotel pans with fancy chrome lids resting in their stands above Sterno stoves. In one of…

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How long can I reuse this delicious bacon grease for cooking?
I cooked some bacon about a week ago and left the grease in the pan. I've used it the last two nights with great success for cooking other meals.
How long is it safe to reuse? I figure since I'm heating it up to a million degrees each time I use…

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Can the bacon in homemade "Bacon Salt" be made shelf stable?
After success making several fancy salts including Sriracha, smoked, and green chili I've decided to try to move in to stranger and tastier territories. As such I want to make a bacon salt. The commercial products don't use real bacon (or at least…

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Can I can bacon?
This question is my wife's. Of course, I wouldn't want to save bacon for later.
I have seen commercial canned bacon for long term food storage and camping, etc.
Is it possible to can bacon at home? Does it have to be pressure canned or do the…

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How long does grease take to go bad/rancid when sitting out?
If I make a skillet full of bacon, how long can I leave the grease sitting out before it is unsafe/rancid? Is the answer different for ground beef grease?

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Can you make moose bacon?
I like moose and I like bacon. Is it possible to make moose bacon? How is the moose belly?

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How to put the bacon IN the burger?
I want to make unique and hopefully really awesome bacon cheeseburgers tonight.
If I had been thinking I would have purchased cuts of meat to grind myself, possibly with the cooked bacon, but what I have is a pound of grocery store ground chuck. I…

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Tips for cooking something "bacon wrapped"?
Whenever I cook something "bacon wrapped" the bacon comes out a little undercooked for my taste. Should I be half-cooking my bacon before I wrap it onto something that I'm going to bake?

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My bacon is a mess
A few days ago, I tried cooking bacon on the stove for the first time, following the directions on the package to a T. I left it in the frying pan for 3 minutes, just like it said. Unfortunately, at the end of the 3 minutes, my bacon was stuck to…

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How long can you keep bacon (from a butcher) in the refrigerator?
I bought smoked bacon from a local butcher and I want to know how long I can keep that bacon in the refrigerator. It is an all natural product with no preservatives other than the process by which it was cured, so no nitrates etc. I forgot to ask…

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How far in advance can you make bacon?
I have to cook bacon for 300, how far in advance can I make the bacon? How will it hold up if say I start cooking it 2 days before the breakfast?

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Does higher quality bacon cook flatter?
My friend was remarking that the bacon I buy is low-quality because when it cooks it's all warped and not flat. I remarked that if he doesn't want bacon, he should keep talking.
Other things being equal, namely the cooking method (if you use one of…

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What's the difference between "English" & "American" bacon?
Prompted by Is it possible to cook bacon without melting as much fat? where I answered in an "English" way…
I've had crispy bacon - you can get it on pre-made sandwiches or in chilled packs in the cooked meat section in supermarkets, but bacon in…

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White residue after putting bacon grease laden cookware in dishwasher
I scrape off most of the bacon grease then put it in a dishwasher. The residue doesn't feel very greasy, it has kind of a powder feel to it. There is only residue on the cookwares, and no residue on all other plates. The cookwares are a nonstick pan…

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