Bacon - Streaky or Back, Smoked or not?

[507bhp]

As it is Sunday morning I have requested a bacon sandwich from my gf who does absolutely no cooking whatsoever.

As I type this I am waiting in anticipation for what could be a superbly executed, crispy, salty, savoury breakfast, but what will more than likely end up as a huge disappointment.

So it got me thinking anyway, what's your favourite bacon? Mine? Smoked streaky crisped up in the oven, medium white fluffy bread, little butter, tomato ketchup!

YUM

[bob1179]

Unsmoked back bacon - The bacon of kings.

It has to be fried, and the rind has to be ever so slightly crispy.

Perfection.

[Plotloss]

Smoked dry cure hand cut middle.

4 full rashers (4 back, 4 streaky essentially)

Tiger bread

Add black pudding & egg, mushrooms or even cheese depending on hunger, mood or time of day.

[507bhp]

Plotloss said:

Smoked dry cure hand cut middle.

4 full rashers (4 back, 4 streaky essentially)

Tiger bread

Add black pudding & egg, mushrooms or even cheese depending on hunger, mood or time of day.

I'm with you on the bread, man!

[Don]

Smoked, dry-cure yes. But back bacon please. Just had that this morning with Sicilian Sausage (a mistake), fried bread (which was gooood) and a couple of free-range eggs.

If I ate that every Sunday I'd be even bigger than I am!

[alman]

unsmoked middle with black pudding and egg

[homicide]

Unsmoked back, fried until the rind is crispy, then placed into a baguette with a mix of red and brown sauce, for preference. However, if its in a cooked dish, say hunters chicken, then i prefer smoky bacon!

[madala]

.....Canadian smoked streaky......

[Saied]

Smoked back bacon, cooked quite crisp.

No butter, freshly sliced proper crusty bread from a bakery and a small squirt of Heinz chilli ketchup.

[miniman]

Streaky or Back, Smoked or not?

Yes. Any of those will do nicely.

[BigLepton]

Unsmoked dry cured middle on a full English, smoked streaky on a bacon sandwich.

Top tip - if you only have cheap streaky bacon, not decent dry-cured, dont despair! Place the bacon in dry frying pan and turn the heat right up. After a minute or two the horrible salty water will have ouzed out. Immediately remove bacon from pan and dry on kitchen roll. Rinse out and dry pan, ad a little splash of oil and return to medium heat and put the dry bacon back in and fry until crispy.

Bit of a fuss but it makes cheap bacon palatable.

[MrVelox]

Back bacon... but finding it in the states can be tough and it isn't cheap over here... about 2-3 times the price of streaky.

[Psychobert]

For a plain bacon sandwich, I'd go for streaky.. Thick cut if possible, but crispy and Tiger bread cut with an axe works well.

[Bob the Planner]

Missing my local butchers smoked back - 3mm or so thick not the paper thin stuff in the supermarket. TBH I generally prefer middle but he doesn't do it as there is no market apparently For me its on a plate with black pudding, sausage, flat mushroom and tomato with a couple of slices of home made bread

Edited by Bob the Planner on Monday 27th October 03:28

[satchbot]

Canadian

[Asterix]

Unsmoked back for me as well.

Stick it in a roll with a splop of Maple Syrup

[andy-xr]

It can be ruined by the "wrong" bread. Has to be Warburtons Toastie, or Super Toastie for the brave. Not toasted though

[smiller]

Tricky.

But.

Unsmoked back by a short nose from smoked back. Never streaky scutter. Thick white bread, lightly buttered, with some Branston's brown sauce (it's got - for me - a better sweet / tangy thing going on than HP).

[paulmurr]

madala said:

.....Canadian smoked streaky......

Cooked extremely crispy, with french toast and maple syrup.

[allgonepetetong]

Smoked back bacon, fryed but only lightly so still soft. Thick sliced bloomer bread, buttered and HP sauce, cup of tea.

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