Squishy or Crispy

[RSKY]

Having to cook bacon for my granddaughters, wife, and myself got me to thinking about this.

How do you like your bacon?

Six year old has to have her bacon "squishy". She loves the thick sliced stuff. Have bought her breakfast at a restaurant where she told the waitress how she wanted her bacon cooked, then had the laughing waitress take it back because it wasn't squishy enough.

Wife has to have hers well done enough that it crumbles when you try to pick it up. She likes the thin sliced.

Mine has to be limber. I too prefer the thick sliced.

Two year old doesn't care. She will eat it any way it's cooked but prefers it like her older cousin wants it just because that's the way the older cousin wants it. As long as it is broke into small pieces and not burned.

So I've bought this huge skillet and I put two different types of bacon in it and have perfected how I place it so I can take it all out at once and it will be done as everybody likes it. Took some experimentation.

Ah, the trials and tribulations of being a retired granddaddy.

Life goes on.

RSKY

 

[k0ua]

I like my bacon cooked to "golden perfection".. Neither "squishey" nor "crispy".. but in between. One cannot always achieve this perfection, as all bacon in the pan does not cook to the same state at the same time. But one can try.:licking: I am pretty good at it.

 

[Bird]

I can eat bacon just about any way you can cook it.:laughing: But in recent times, I'm buying Wright Applewood Smoked bacon. It says Big N Better on the package. I've seen a lot thinner sliced, but I've also seen some thicker, so I guess I'd call it medium sliced. And I cook mine so it's still "limber", as you said.:laughing:

 

[Carhartt Cowboy]

Crispy to the point just before burnt. Would rather have it burnt than limp any day of the week. Where I am currently working, living in a man camp, I cannot get bacon done right. It is basically deep fried till limp, fatty, and greasy. 'course the people here think bacon is evil and a sin....what can you expect.

 

[300UGUY]

Bacon = Meat Candy...

 

[orezok]

Bacon = Meat Candy...

Bacon = Heart attack on a plate :licking::licking:

 

[Jstpssng]

Bacon = Heart attack on a plate :licking::licking:

Not any more. Haven't you heard, cholesterol in your diet doesn't affect your health.

Myth: Cholesterol-Rich Foods Raise Blood Cholesterol

(I call BS on that claim.)

 

[dmccarty]

Pretty funny! Just a few minutes ago the wifey and I were discussing the correct cooking of bacon.:laughing::laughing::laughing: I like bacon from just cooked aka squishy to really crisp and it can be thin or thick. Thick is just easier to cook since you don't have to handle it as much but taste wise I have no preference. Bacon just be good! :licking::licking::licking:

However, I have noticed people at the work cafeteria being very bacon specific. Seems like many people REALLY want crispy bacon.

Just give me bacon! :licking::licking::licking:

Later,
Dan

 

[RobertBrown]

Squishy or Crispy ?

Properly cooked bacon is both...

 

[Buggs67]

I like mine just crisp and golden. I think the oven is the best way to get good bacon. 10 min at 350. But I usually don't want to put the oven on for bacon, specially for 1 lb in the summer.

 

[Bird]

This thread reminds me of many years ago when a cousin of mine was still a teenager and went on the wheat harvest one year. In those days, a crew with trucks, combine, etc. started harvesting down south and worked their way north, going from farm to farm, and wherever they were working, the farmer's wife usually did the cooking and fed the crew. And my cousin said he couldn't eat the bacon on those farms because it was "raw". Of course it wasn't raw, but at home, he was accustomed to his mother always having crisp bacon.

 

[gwstang]

I like mine more on the crispy side....evidently one of my wife's chihuahuas does too. I usually give both of them a little piece. The other morning the red head got up and fixed me pancakes and bacon (don't know what got into her...lol :confused2: ) and I wanted to watch the morning news while I ate. I sat in my recliner and had the tv remote in one hand and one of the pups jumped in my lap. He sits there while I eat, hoping I will drop something for him to scarf up. I look around for a second and looked back and that varmint had grabbed the bacon which happened to be sticking a little too far out from the plate :drool: I'm like WTH ? The bacon was bigger than he is. He doesn't sit in my lap when I'm eating anymore. Ever fight with an angry chihuahua over a piece of bacon? Yeah, you ain't getting it back! (she had some extra so I did get another piece)

The culprit!

 

[mjarrels]

Funny story, last year while back visiting in the Philippines, my wifes sister tried making me BLT's. She ruined it big time with almost raw bacon, not much experience cooking bacon there as its too expensive for filipinos to buy. Yes, I did eat the BLT!

mark

 

[cat fever]

Good bacon is good any way it's cooked, but, I prefer it just before its gets crispy.

On a side note, I work with this tubby little asian guy who wear's a shirt that says "Body by bacon". I love that shirt and he ain't lying.

 

[mjarrels]

During cold weather, I like to visit the local mom/pop store about a mile from the house and pickup a nice slab of pork side meat. Very fatty and hard to slice but makes a great sandwich with mustard on it.

mark

 

[jack707]

crispy to well done

 

[IslandTractor]

I prefer mine on the crispy side but not so crisp that it fractures when you stab it with a fork. That said, I will eat any bacon on my plate except for soggy British breakfast bacon that is essentially just heated up in oil while the eggs are cooking. Nasty.

 

[RSKY]

Bacon evil??

Where are you at?

 

[jack707]

If bacon was good for ya health I wood eat it by the LBS!!! nothing like hickory smoked country sliced bacon!.

 

[sailorman]

I like crispy . I don 't know about the health debate . I do know I've got my vertical chest scar from a quad bipass, multiple stents in my abdomen, one in my heart, right carotid surgery, and just had my left carotid done last Friday . I do know this thread is makin' me hungry and tomorrow its off to the Waffle House I go . Some of you may not know what the Waffle House is .