My Life With Bacon

MY LIFE WITH BACON continues this week with a trip to The Fresh Market for some "Weekend" bacon, and a review of the news. BACON IN THE NEWS - incredibly, they've found another very cool use for bacon.  In an act of desperation, doctors shoved bacon up a kid's nose to stop the bleeding, and it worked.  The team of doctors won the famous Ig Nobel award from Harvard University for this possibly life-saving act: "Michigan doctors who used cured pork to stop a nosebleed won a 2014 Ig Nobel prize, awarded by the Annals of Improbable Research magazine at Harvard University for especially imaginative scientific achievements. Dr. Sonal Saraiya and her team at the Detroit Medical Center decided to try the folk remedy as a “last resort” after failed attempts to stop an uncontrollable nosebleed in a 4-year-old who suffers from Glanzmann thrombasthenia, a rare condition in which blood does not properly clot. They stuffed strips of cured pork into the...

MY LIFE WITH BACON continues this week with a review of the Fresh Thyme market bacon (three-way photo below), some road bacon, and, of course, bacon in the news. BACON IN THE NEWS starts with bacon involved in crime (again).  This is becoming so rampant that I might start a section just on crimes involving bacon.  This one involves an estranged girlfriend who decides to set fire to her ex-boyfriend's house by setting a bunch of bacon on fire.  The perp has such an appropriate name , but what a waste of perfectly good baco.  Trial next month.  We'll see if the judge can keep a straight face. "Cameo Adawn Crispi, 32, repeatedly called and texted her former flame in March from his home, where she left the bacon over a lit burner, police said. The man wasn't home and called police saying he wanted Crispi out of his house, The Deseret News reports . Officers arrived and saw smoke flowing out the front door. Inside, they found hot coals on the floor aro...

MY LIFE WITH BACON CONTINUES this week with a review of Bachinger Farms bacon, some bacon on the road, and news.  And a bonus section on awesome pickles. BACON IN THE NEWS  Yes, a "Bacon Fueled Motorcycle Sizzles across America".  True.  Hormel.  Link here . And, another vindication of the low carb / paleo lifestyle, in an article in the New York Times summarizing a recent large scale scientific study.   Link here . BACHINGER FARMS BACON was pretty darned good.  The packaging was attractive.  I purchased the pound at the Saturday Farmer's market in Lake Forest; hadn't seen it before. The smell was classic coming out of the package.  Precook weight 1 pound, 0.3 ounces.  Post cooking, it weighed in at 6.5 ounces and generated a generous 175ml of rendered bacon fat.  Flavor was a solid 4 out of five, succulence average at 2.5 and crisped up well: 3 out of 5.  However, my friend Eric Arnson points out that crisp...