A bacon sundae?? REALLY??

Actually this makes me wonder why more restaurants don't put bacon creme brulee on their menu. It sounds delightful.

You'd have texture problems. A good creme needs to set for some time and a lot of that set time is under heat. Mix the bacon in after the cooking, and you end up with pudding. Mix the bacon in before the cooking, and the heat will soften the bacon too much.

You can get away with this in ice cream or gelato with really well-crisped bacon because you can add it after the product is expected to remain cool forever. Even then, you really have to crisp the bacon. BK is getting around this by adding the bacon on top of the sundae.

A local gelato place makes it every now and then, and one time they undercooked the bacon (edit: By that I mean, they soft-cooked the bacon to a safe temperature, but left the bacon soft enough that the ice cream dissolved it). It was REVOLTING. Excellent gelato with salty globs of soft fat. Yeech. I complained (I was the first one to buy some), and the young lady behind the counter described it as tasting like "an excellent date, from my boyfriend's perspective" and threw the pan out. Doing it wrong is easy, and it comes out really, really wrong.

I don't know how you'd overcome the challenges with a proper creme, unless you sprinkled some bacon on top just before the blowtorch was applied or something, and then you'd really run a risk of scalding the bacon or messing up the carmelization of the sugars, which would probably be OK because it's a non-traditional creme anyway.

It's simple math.
Bacon + ice cream = win

You can get those ingredients in a grocery store too, I don't blame grocery stores for making me fat.

I but bacon in my chocolate chip cookies, whose fault is that? mine.



I've seen muffins with just as high of a calorie count.

Hell, one of those big cookies from a vending machine has 400 calories.

Pass me the sundae.

I but bacon in my chocolate chip cookies, whose fault is that? mine.

Other than the unfortunate typo, I see nothing to find fault with in bacon-infused chocolate chip cookies. :laugh:

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Actually this makes me wonder why more restaurants don't put bacon creme brulee on their menu. It sounds delightful.

You'd have texture problems. A good creme needs to set for some time and a lot of that set time is under heat. Mix the bacon in after the cooking, and you end up with pudding. Mix the bacon in before the cooking, and the heat will soften the bacon too much.

You can get away with this in ice cream or gelato with really well-crisped bacon because you can add it after the product is expected to remain cool forever. Even then, you really have to crisp the bacon. BK is getting around this by adding the bacon on top of the sundae.

A local gelato place makes it every now and then, and one time they undercooked the bacon (edit: By that I mean, they soft-cooked the bacon to a safe temperature, but left the bacon soft enough that the ice cream dissolved it). It was REVOLTING. Excellent gelato with salty globs of soft fat. Yeech. I complained (I was the first one to buy some), and the young lady behind the counter described it as tasting like "an excellent date, from my boyfriend's perspective" and threw the pan out. Doing it wrong is easy, and it comes out really, really wrong.

I don't know how you'd overcome the challenges with a proper creme, unless you sprinkled some bacon on top just before the blowtorch was applied or something, and then you'd really run a risk of scalding the bacon or messing up the carmelization of the sugars, which would probably be OK because it's a non-traditional creme anyway.

Is there anything about the fat content that would prevent putting a bacon essence in the cream before it sets and then maybe sprinkling a bit of cooked bacon on top after the torching? You wouldn't want to overpower the creme, obviously, so you'd have to fiddle with the flavor balance.

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I just read an article about one of Burger King's new menu items that is due to be released tomorrow. It's a BACON sundae that has 510 calories, 18 grams of fat, and 61 grams of sugar.

Now, I know there's a lot of debate on fast food restaurants and how their food is "making people fat". I totally agree that if you choose to eat that food (as I've done several times in the past) that it will eventually make you fat.

I'm of two minds about this. On one hand, I believe that everyone has to be held accountable for their own actions. No one is forcing people to eat at Burger King or any other restaurant, so I don't agree with people who sue these places for "making them fat"

^^^this^^^

On the other hand, it shocks me that food products that are obviously bad for you and that will eventually lead to several health problems (and even death if eaten regularly) are not more closely regulated and do not come with "warning lables" or something similar like cigarette packages do. I think that if people were more aware of the potential dangers of eating these foods, they would think twice about it.

What's your opinion?

Yes, we need more nannystatism pfft

It's a sundae that has 510 calories, 18 grams of fat, and 61 grams of sugar.

If I were to omit the word "bacon" from the original post, would it still be a big deal? No, (trick question) because it was never a big deal in the first place. 500 calories for a dessert from a fast food restaurant is still in the kiddie pool. You need to get out and read more lables/nutritional info.

I'm sure that if you analyze the calorie content of the ingredients, the bacon is the low calorie part of it all...

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may? for which percentage of the population does it not? i thought life was always terminal.

also - i want a bacon sundae, i think it sounds awesome. and i don't care i would have to spend an extra half hour on the stationary bike for it.

Jack in the Box has a bacon milkshake

To me the bacon sundae seems gross I wouldn't try it , thats just me... But about fast food making people fat , you know what its The Person making them selfs fat, if you choose not to eat healthy and eat nothing but junk food well then your gonna be fat ..:indifferent:

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hand me a spoon.

Make that two.

THREE!

gross! they got it from watching I Carly

I will let you know how good it is when I try it. I think it will be awesome