My Life With Bacon

MY LIFE WITH BACON continues this week with a lot of anger and feedback all over the Internet about the W.H.O. silliness BACON IN THE NEWS is red-hot, like a great strip of bacon. Link Susannah Mushatt Jones, the oldest person in the world at the tender age of 116, "says it'll be when pigs fly" that she stops eating bacon. As to the W.H.O. finding, she  disputes it too !

MY LIFE WITH BACON continues this week with a more complete review of my own bacon - from a raw pork belly, self-cured with tequila, and smoked on my home made smoker.  Picture above. BACON IN THE NEWS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A pparently the World Health Organization is going to designate bacon as a dangerous substance . An article here . I can't think of anything that is a more of a waste of time, or misguided. There is plenty of evidence that bacon fat is healthy. There is some evidence that eating lots of smoked meats produces bowel cancer. Here's another article : they say that pork and red meat are likely an actual cause of cancer. But what about that awful chemical di-hydrogen monoxide ? It's everywhere and drinking it to excess has caused deaths. Here's the website: dhmo.org . Hey, on a more serious note - world organizations, news flash: how about doing som...

MY LIFE WITH BACON continues this week with a look at what seems to be an uber-artisinal bloody mary cocktail with terrific bacon, some submissions from friends, a review of an old standby without the microwave, and a teaser for next week. Some may complain, that with all the trouble in the world, that I should write about more substantial things. Good observation. I like to think of my blog as a necessary diversion from all of our real-world troubles. Kind of like the toy aisle in the department store. Fun to think about other things and enjoy the simple pleasure of life. And what is bacon, if not life? Read on.... BACON IN THE NEWS - well, the 116-year old lady who eats bacon every day continues to make bacon headlines. What a story, about which I wrote last week. But we must move on. This week, a bacon infused cocktail that involves all the cooking methods I like is featured in eater.com - a menu/food consolidation news site. The cocktail is featured at the Belcampo Meat Co ...

MY LIFE WITH BACON continues this week with only one thought: if you want to live a long time, eat bacon every day. Preferably with eggs. Preferably a Paleo lifestyle. "All the evidence you'll ever need" is right here  and here . She looks pretty happy and healthy. From the second link attn.com

MY LIFE WITH BACON continues this week with a re-review of the Bacon WAVE unit. Click that link to see their website. THE BACON WAVE is a microwave bacon cooker. It's a heavy plastic tray that has vertical slots for the placement of the bacon slices, and comes with plastic rods that you can push through the vertical slices to keep them in place as the cooking commences. I lost or broke the plastic rods almost as soon as I first used them. Bamboo skewers work as a simple substitute. You can see my bamboo skewer off to the left, and the scissor to snip off the excess. Here's the bacon I used: my go-to - Oscar Mayer Center cut. The bacon was a little substandard with a lot of fat in the center... and these were very thin slices. Here's the bacon, loaded in the Wave, with the trimmed skewers inserted. Cooked. It just didn't crisp up evenly. In fact, only the edge protein portions actually...