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[–] 66 points 6 months ago (12 children)

Call me nuts but I like the 4-5.5 range. I'm not a fan of chewy fat...

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    My ex liked the 6-7 range while I like the 2-4 range. We were thus incompatible and broke up after the umpteenth time they made it “for me” the exact same way they did for themselves.

    (The last bit is a joke, the first bit isn’t)

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    high five

    Crispy through, no chewy but not carbonized.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    "I said CARAMELIZED, damnit!"

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  • [–] 34 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    It seems it self-heals a bit after #9 and reassembles back, so I would like to try that #10

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  • [–] 26 points 6 months ago (5 children)
  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago* (3 children)

    Are you a vegan or do you eat pigs alive?

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 25 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I only eat swine graced with the god particle

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  • [+] 23 points 6 months ago (1 child)
    [–] 21 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    4-6, depending on the type of bacon.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I want it to stand horizontal if I hold the end :p

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago

    45

    I prefer my bacon in a gluon soup form..

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago

    10 through 18 look like the bristolstool chart

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago

    Anakin, no!

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    I usually take a bit from a live pig, so -3

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    Does the bacon reassemble itself between 9 and 10?

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    18 looks good, to fire up a barbeque for grilling my veggies

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    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

    ...

    18. Portugal

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    3-5. Thats the sweet spot.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    Some places will slap like a 1.4 in a bun and act like their job here is done, and you’re like wha

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Myself, 3-5.

    8 or above is charcoal, not bacon.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah 3-5 is best. 2 if it's really good meat with not that much fat

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    19 is too crunchy.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    Is there a 4.5 option? Although 6-7 are the tastiest. I love charred food and burnt pizza

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Let's not be ridiculous, anything beyond #12 is unsalvageable! #9 is perfectly optimal though

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    Please ask the chef to restrict airflow so that I may use my bacon to heat my forge.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    18 , its basically carbon now so its halal

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    I can never decide between 15 or 16

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    5 is where it's at boys. Max crisp, no burning.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    2-5 are acceptable. Softer bacon is better than crispier bacon and I don’t care who I offend

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    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

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

    3 is the breakfast buffet pile of hours old leathery bacon all stuck together with lukewarm grease.

    1000014470

    Edit:

    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

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    There's a huge gap between 5 and 6. That's where I live.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    I like mine fossilized.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago
    1. Maybe even 2. I'd have to see it in person.
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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago*

    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.

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  • [+] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Depending upon how thick it was I might still eat 7.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    1.5 gang, rise up!

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    I'll have a uuuuuuhhhh #14 with side of ketchup

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago
    1. But carryover cooking means by the time I get a piece it’s a 5.
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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    0, I’d like to eat a living pig.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    3 or 5 they're two different moods. 4 is too in the middle for me.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    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"

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Between 4 and 5 is actually good.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    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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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    About tree fiddy.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago
    [–] 2 points 6 months ago
    1. It's like eating a cracker.
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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago
    1. I like mine atomized
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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago
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    Only 1 is proper. Then I can cook it to my liking.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    I like my bacon like I like my porn....black and ashy.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Did they really need to go past 8?

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