Bacon Experiment
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Did you just cream yourself or pop a tent? Thats fine...
Heres the experiment
Ill find a cheap thick cut bacon and match it against my typical ~$10# bacon.
Both will be laid out on a pan and cooked at the same temperature, in the oven, for the same duration.
I will then weigh the slices and see which one weighs more. (weigh the whole pile of each brand)
Hypothesis:
I've always been convinced that my more expensive bacon not only tasted better, but, also was leaner and resulted in "more" bacon in the end product. If true, this would seemingly make the higher price much more acceptable. Hopefully I'll prove that gourmet bacon, at nearly double the price of average brands, is really not that pricy considering what you get. We will see.
Uncontrollable variables:
Slice length and thickness may vary slightly. I will weigh several slices of each and give the dimensions. The problem here is one slice may render more fat as grease during the cooking process.
Results to be displayed:
Percentage of weight lost due to rendering of fat
Brands used
Price in contrast to final weight after cooking.
Average dimensions and weight of the slices to be determined as the mean of 5 slices.
Pictures of delicious bacon
Pictures of me eating said bacon (for science, ya know?)
I'm gonna go get the bacon tomorrow. The gourmet bacon used will be Nueske's from a smokehouse in Wisconsin.
Stay tuned.
Heres the experiment
Ill find a cheap thick cut bacon and match it against my typical ~$10# bacon.
Both will be laid out on a pan and cooked at the same temperature, in the oven, for the same duration.
I will then weigh the slices and see which one weighs more. (weigh the whole pile of each brand)
Hypothesis:
I've always been convinced that my more expensive bacon not only tasted better, but, also was leaner and resulted in "more" bacon in the end product. If true, this would seemingly make the higher price much more acceptable. Hopefully I'll prove that gourmet bacon, at nearly double the price of average brands, is really not that pricy considering what you get. We will see.
Uncontrollable variables:
Slice length and thickness may vary slightly. I will weigh several slices of each and give the dimensions. The problem here is one slice may render more fat as grease during the cooking process.
Results to be displayed:
Percentage of weight lost due to rendering of fat
Brands used
Price in contrast to final weight after cooking.
Average dimensions and weight of the slices to be determined as the mean of 5 slices.
Pictures of delicious bacon
Pictures of me eating said bacon (for science, ya know?)
I'm gonna go get the bacon tomorrow. The gourmet bacon used will be Nueske's from a smokehouse in Wisconsin.
Stay tuned.
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Will follow with interest.0
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Subbing, well because . . . . . BACON!0
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Stay tuned?!
wait... So I have to wait for results?
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i have determined your cooking is flawed and therefore I will need to conduct this experiment on my own.
By flawed I have determined that you are biased on your "gourmet" bacon, since all bacon is amazing. i must have test subjects that do not know which bacon is which and will therefore not know with is gourmet or cheap. Instead of Lab rats i will take Lab MFPers.0 -
In for scientific experimentation...0
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in for science...and because my grandparents smoked their own bacon and I miss it. :-)0
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i have determined your cooking is flawed and therefore I will need to conduct this experiment on my own.
By flawed I have determined that you are biased on your "gourmet" bacon, since all bacon is amazing. i must have test subjects that do not know which bacon is which and will therefore not know with is gourmet or cheap. Instead of Lab rats i will take Lab MFPers.
I volunteer.0 -
omgawd! thats it i cant take anymore threads about bacon.. its 1am here and im going to bed to dream about bacon that i cant eat ! :sad:
good luck with your experiment btw0 -
Here for the love of bacon... :drinker: Quality control is so important.0
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I love you
I love bacon0 -
You had me at bacon....
Oh, and I buy the cheaper (NOT the cheapEST) bacon, so lets see if you're experiment sways me to buy the higher priced stuff... Although, as much as we eat bacon... highly unlikely!0 -
Science rules. And I am a scientist- but not a qualified baconologist, sadly :sad:0
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This is a no-brainer, IMO.
If I buy the cheap stuff, I always get 2-3x the grease than if I buy the good stuff from the local butcher. Plus, the butcher's has better flavour.0 -
When Cook's Illustrated taste-tested bacon they found that the thicker slices tasted smokier and the smokier slices tasted better. The thicker slices also were chewier, which was equally important. I think that is right. The primary difference between bacons is the thickness. The bacon i buy from the butcher's counter is generally thicker, so that even when it is fatty you can cook it until it is chewy, just barely crispy, or crisp, but still with body, depending on how you like it.
Your cheap, thin bacons just crisp up, and all the fat escapes, and it is like eating a brown-paper bag.
Cook's thought that the thicker slices, because they had more edge area, captured more of the smoke during the smoking process.0 -
Someone has too much time on their hands.
BACON is just GOOD.
Cheap, expensive..................doesn't matter. As long as it's CRISPY AND DELICIOUS!
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Confused that bacon fat is considered to be valueless when its really invaluable.
Also volunteering for all the science.0 -
In the name of science!0 -
for anybody who is curious, a look at how bacon is made in factories:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tvx_CKB7uI0 -
yumm bacon. dry cured bacon is amazing if you get the chance to try it...0
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