Entertaining and informative - everything I could want from a video.
I use the laser box method because of high speed and minimal cleanup. It’s more important to me than the resulting quality of the bacon.
Paper towels in the trash, dish in the dishwasher, bacon in the mouth.
My (well, Alton Brown’s) best bacon tip, if you wear glasses, is to wear a wide-brimmed hat or a baseball cap while frying. This prevents aerosolized grease droplets from rising up and settling on the inside of your lenses.
For God’s sake, DON’T put any grease down the drain. Guarantees clogs later. Haven’t you heard of “fatbergs”?Pour the liquid grease into a can. Let the pan cool a bit, then swab it with paper towels. If the pan is already cold, scrape out as much grease as you can. Then warm the pan just a bit and then swab it. Never pour any liquid grease down the drain.
Yeah, probably not able to do the mountain gobble of carbs.
BUT, according to Rob Wolff in a podcast the other day, there are long term effects by staying on that diet for 6 months to a year. After that time period, the benefits are more stable.
For a lot of people though, big carb intake isn’t a good thing.
I like to cook bacon by filling my house up with cockroaches, setting a big hunk of raw bacon on a stone in the middle of the living room, let the fire company come over and burn down the house to get rid of the roaches, what’s let over is some crispy bacon with a light coating of fried roach ash which is just delicious!
I make fire starters for camping/backyard fire pit with bacon grease. It’s amazing stuff if you blend it with some sawdust. I pour it warm but not runny into used egg cartons and one egg cell is perfect for a typical campfire.
I’ve been making bacon grease suet stuffed with seeds and maybe some peanut butter for the birds for ages (not those filthy tree rats! squirrels! how we hates em my precious!) but this idea sounds grand and I bet it smells awesome. I’ll just goggle the recipe or experiment but wanted to give a hat tip to this idea. Perfect for the fire pit in the back and I’m hell-bent on making a cob oven this summer.
Everybody here talking about bacon cooking methods, but I’m just here to point out that You Suck At Cooking (who made the OP video) is a hilarious “cooking” channel and you should watch it.
George Foreman Grill, FTW!
Cooks twice as fast, no flipping or fussing, drains the grease, and comes out perfectly flat and crispy.
I cut the whole pound in half and the pieces fit the smallest model.