Call me nuts but I like the 4-5.5 range. I'm not a fan of chewy fat...
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It seems it self-heals a bit after #9 and reassembles back, so I would like to try that #10
Are you a vegan or do you eat pigs alive?
Which do you think is worse?
Trichinosis is a bad time.
The other one doesn't eat bacon.
damn that's tough...
Seriously though, my wife got a vegan BLT at an artisanal brewery, they had tempeh bacon where they make their own. She stopped eating it because she was worried it was real bacon (she's just pro pig). I tried it and although the texture was only 80% it was by far the best vegan product i've ever had.
I only eat swine graced with the god particle
4-6, depending on the type of bacon.
I want it to stand horizontal if I hold the end :p
I usually take a bit from a live pig, so -3
Not necessarily accurate, but here's my own interpretation:
1. Canada
2/3. Britain
4. USA
5. Ireland
6. Deep South US
7. A college dorm
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18. Portugal
Some places will slap like a 1.4 in a bun and act like their job here is done, and you’re like wha
Myself, 3-5.
8 or above is charcoal, not bacon.
Yeah 3-5 is best. 2 if it's really good meat with not that much fat
Is there a 4.5 option? Although 6-7 are the tastiest. I love charred food and burnt pizza
Let's not be ridiculous, anything beyond #12 is unsalvageable! #9 is perfectly optimal though
I don't understand how it starts getting better briefly after 9
Please ask the chef to restrict airflow so that I may use my bacon to heat my forge.
1 should just be a pig.
For real, my wife is around 2. I like mine about 4 or 5. I want a good crunch, but she likes her bacon flaccid.
She also takes her steak at a medium. I want my steak all but still mooing.
2-5 are acceptable. Softer bacon is better than crispier bacon and I don’t care who I offend
3 is the breakfast buffet pile of hours old leathery bacon all stuck together with lukewarm grease. This is not an acceptable bacon. 2 for sandwiches, 4 or 5 for plain eatin
3 is the breakfast buffet pile of hours old leathery bacon all stuck together with lukewarm grease.

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I've been vegan for 10 years and I still miss 2-3 style bacon. Vegan bacon does a good job if you like Canadian bacon and/or 4-6 on this chart, but nobody has made fatty vegan bacon that's good around 2-3 cookedness
local brewery made tempeh bacon that was very, very close to what you're looking for, try smoking some tempeh
source: I'm not a vegan and it was VERY good.
"Canadian bacon"? Define that for a Canadian. Because we have back bacon, and peameal bacon in Canada, and streaky.
It depends on the dish. Like Chinese pork belly should melt in your mouth, not break your teeth. But on a bacon egg and cheese sandwich, the bacon needs to bring the texture.
1 is literally just raw. I like both crispy bacon and chewier bacon, but only if the fat is completely rendered.
I'd say either 4 or 17 deoending on how much carbon I'm looking for.
It's bacon. Processed meat is a WHO Group 1 carcinogen, it's "known to cause cancer", I'm not sure how much the charcoal changes things.
It's also considered red meat for the purposes of the Group 2A carcinogens, where red meat "probably" causes cancer.
Not sure what your concern is with charcoal but eating bacon on a regular basis is already living on the edge.
Depending upon how thick it was I might still eat 7.
0, I’d like to eat a living pig.
Exactly what I was going to post.
I worked at a fast-food chain years ago and we had to cook bacon in the morning. The rule was to cook it to around #2 and I always cooked it to 6.
Customer: "make sure the bacon's crispy"
Me: "You have the right cook today, I only make it crispy"
5 or 6, for sure. If you can't hold it horizontally without it flopping, it's not done enough, and if you can't hold it horizontally without it breaking from its own weight, it's too done.





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