bacon, bacon, bacon

I just wanted this to show up on my newsfeed. Mmmm...bacon.

Mmm, bacon.

don't ask just eat

One slice of bacon is one slice of bacon, no matter how it's prepared.
The only way a slice will vary in calories is if you use a different brand (which may use larger slices) or use different cooking oil (butter, olive oil, etc.)

:huh: 'cause bacon doesn't have enough of that yummy fatty fat to cook in already?

Cooked will weigh less. The packaged bacon calories should refer to cooked. Crisp may have slightly less fat & cals than "juicy"... mmmm bacon juice

One slice of bacon is one slice of bacon, no matter how it's prepared.
The only way a slice will vary in calories is if you use a different brand (which may use larger slices) or use different cooking oil (butter, olive oil, etc.)
Eating a hard boiled egg will have the same amount of calories as a raw egg used in cookie dough. How you prepare the food will change the nutrition, not how you cook it.
So log your slice of bacon, then account for whether or not you added stuff to it while cooking.

Not that I could bother obsessing about it if I were entering it in my diary, but surely grilled bacon (where the fat drips of into the grill pan) is going to have less fat than fried where it cooks in its own fat? I'm pretty sure the bacon lardons I put in a stew the other day had two sets of calories listed - one for raw and one for cooked. And the cooked ones did not match up to the raw amount, so I think the implication was that some fat is cooked off, but if you put it into a casserole or whatever you get all the fat. Can't remember which one I entered though.

Thanks, now I want bacon!:laugh:

I don't want you to worry about logging it wrong, so just send it all my way! Thanks

OMG!!! Bacon! And tonight is Bacon night!! My mouth is drooling in anticipation!

i like my bacon the opposite of crispy...juicy and flimsy

You're doing it wrong.

70 cals a slice add extra for the HP Sauce!

i love my bacon crispy mmmm

OMG!!! Bacon! And tonight is Bacon night!! My mouth is drooling in anticipation!

I don't know what Bacon Night is, but.....in!!!!!!!!

All you can eat bacon...for free!!!

Picture will probably be too big, but here goes anyway:




ETA: what you can't see on the right of the image is "Tuesday Night is Bacon Night all you can eat". This joyous occasion happens at Harris Grill in Pittsburgh PA.

One slice of bacon is one slice of bacon, no matter how it's prepared.
The only way a slice will vary in calories is if you use a different brand (which may use larger slices) or use different cooking oil (butter, olive oil, etc.)
Eating a hard boiled egg will have the same amount of calories as a raw egg used in cookie dough. How you prepare the food will change the nutrition, not how you cook it.
So log your slice of bacon, then account for whether or not you added stuff to it while cooking.

If bacon is cooked on something that allows the fat to drain off, it will have less calories than bacon cooked in it's own grease, or in added oil. If bacon is set on paper towels to soak up some of the grease before eating, it will have less calories than if not. The more of the fat that makes it into your mouth, the higher the calorie count.

One slice of bacon is one slice of bacon, no matter how it's prepared.
The only way a slice will vary in calories is if you use a different brand (which may use larger slices) or use different cooking oil (butter, olive oil, etc.)
Eating a hard boiled egg will have the same amount of calories as a raw egg used in cookie dough. How you prepare the food will change the nutrition, not how you cook it.
So log your slice of bacon, then account for whether or not you added stuff to it while cooking.

Maybe that's close to being true if you're talking about Canadian bacon. Otherwise...

According to the USDA a raw 28 gram slice of cured pork bacon has 117 calories, while a pan-fried slice weighs in at 11.5 grams and has only 54 calories. The exact number of calories will vary by the brand and the thickness of the slice, but there'll always be substantially fewer calories per slice if preparation involves rendering the fat and leaving most of it behind. The nutrition panels on packages of raw pork bacon typically specify pan-fried slices for a reason. That's the way they expect most of it to be eaten.

It should be logged raw if you're using the bacon in a recipe that retains all of the fat. And rendered bacon grease used to season other foods should be logged at 120 calories per tablespoon, like any other oil.

http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/