BS: gizmo for bacon

Subject: RE: BS: gizmo for bacon
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 14 Nov 20 - 03:10 PM

I would suggest Sainsbury's "Taste the Difference" thick cut back bacon grilled as said above just short of crispy, with Sainsbury's Taste The Difference Multiseed straight from the supermarket.

Subject: RE: BS: gizmo for bacon
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 14 Nov 20 - 02:57 PM

There should be nothing crispy about the bread in a bacon butty. But the very worst bread should always be reserved for the chip butty. Bacon butty bread shouldn't be too good. You don't want the bread to take the stardom away from the bacon. This is a serious matter of balance...

Subject: RE: BS: gizmo for bacon
From: Jos
Date: 14 Nov 20 - 01:06 PM

Definitely no ketchup. Definitely plenty of butter.
But I would use a good-quality, maybe home made, crispy fresh white loaf.
No pap, no way.
And I would keep the fat rendered out of the bacon to cook mushrooms.

Subject: RE: BS: gizmo for bacon
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 14 Nov 20 - 12:52 PM

We've had a microwave for 25 years. In all that time I've only ever used it for making porridge and softening little pats of too-hard butter to spread on my butty.

For a bacon butty you need unsmoked streaky, a grill, butter and prepacked sliced pap. I have known people to indulge in the abhorrent practice of putting ketchup in a bacon butty. My advice to such people is to stop being silly and use twice as much butter in future. The ideal bacon is just short of going totally crispy but with the fat nicely rendered. If your cooking method can manage that it doesn't matter how you did it.

Subject: RE: BS: gizmo for bacon
From: Mrrzy
Date: 14 Nov 20 - 10:23 AM

No paper towel under, the grooves collect the grease. A paper towel would just get in the way.

Bacon and corn on the cob are the only things I've found a mw cooks better than a stovetop.

Subject: RE: BS: gizmo for bacon
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 14 Nov 20 - 08:59 AM

Invest in a combi-oven-microwave..

Perfect for just about everything.
We've always bought the big capacity stainless steel cased Sharp brand;
and never needed a traditional cooker/oven.
They usually last about a decade of heavy daily use...

[We also use a 2nd smaller microwave for cooking up veg side dishes].

Unfortunately the oven/grill function of ours broke down earlier this year,
and we still haven't ordered a replacement due to covid delivery concerns.

So we're having to get adjusted to only microwave cooking everything.
No more roasts and grills.
Just big meaty stews.

Or soggy looking sausages and burgers..
.. and bacon..
Even they still taste ok hidden in bread rolls/buns..

Then there were the novelty George Forman Grills,
what a greasy mess they could be.
Many years since we stopped using them...

Subject: RE: BS: gizmo for bacon
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 14 Nov 20 - 08:54 AM

This Microwave bacon criisper is available from Amazon in the UK. There seem to be plenty of others around. I assume that a quick Google search should bring up similar things in the US.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: gizmo for bacon
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Nov 20 - 08:37 AM

Yes, I had one of those hard plastic "microwave safe" things for making bacon and it did okay (I think I still have it somewhere, but I usually do it in the skillet now). To describe the surface, think about having a flat surface of playdoh in front of you. Put your four fingers down on the edge and depress down about 3/4 inch and drag your hand in that position across the surface of the playdoh to the other side. Repeat again beside it until you have this surface that shows a series of depressions across the entire surface. This pan also has a channel around the outer edge of these raised/depressed lines to catch grease. You were supposed to lay the bacon across these raised lines then cover it with paper toweling. I don't remember if it needed toweling under the bacon also.

After describing that I decided to look. I see that Big Lots lists one that has a plastic cover - even better - saves on paper towels.

The bacon generally came out pretty good - crisp enough and not burned like can happen in the skillet.

Subject: RE: BS: gizmo for bacon
From: Mrrzy
Date: 14 Nov 20 - 08:37 AM

Yes, I had a wavy-topped plastic tray, you lay the bacon athwart the waves, the grease collects in the grooves and the bacon crisps on the peaks. 1mn20s per slice of bacon in my microwave, no adjustment for quantity. It was marvy. Lost it in a move.

Never add grease to anything you're cooking bacon in. Bacon creates grease you want to keep to cook other things in. The wavy-topped tray collected it beautifully.

Subject: RE: BS: gizmo for bacon
From: Mr Red
Date: 14 Nov 20 - 06:39 AM

FWIW I collect all the excess liquid from frying bacon in a frying pan (never microwave). Obviously I don't fry to a crisp. I say liquids because modern bacon has been injected/soaked with water these days.

Not only does the collected mass go into a paper bag and in the food re-cycling bin, eventually, but until it does I have an excellent "paint off hands remover". Gloss paint, heavy grease, etc etc. Which can then be dissolved with washing-up liquid (I don't have a dishwasher - I am one).

Subject: RE: BS: gizmo for bacon
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 14 Nov 20 - 04:47 AM

We use the grill for bacon and sausages. Fried is best, but grilled comes a decent second.

Subject: RE: BS: gizmo for bacon
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 14 Nov 20 - 04:47 AM

The first microwave oven that I bought, over 40 years ago, came with a ceramic dish that was "metallised" so that it heated up when being used. It was slightly domed with a deep groove around the edge to collect any grease produced during cooking. A little oil or butter could be used if the item being cooked had no fat of its own, but othe= than that, none was required. I remember really good egg and bacon butties (if you like the egg whites crisp).

It was dropped and shattered into a million pieces. I have never seen one for sale since, but then again, I have never looked for one. I am happy enougb with a frying pan.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: gizmo for bacon
From: Raggytash
Date: 14 Nov 20 - 03:51 AM

Place one rasher on a lightly greased baking tray, bring oven to required temperature (about 150) place tray in oven and watch carefully until rasher is cooked. :-) :-)

Subject: BS: gizmo for bacon
From: leeneia
Date: 14 Nov 20 - 12:13 AM

Have you ever found a good gizmo for cooking bacon in the microwave? I'm referring to American style bacon, also known perhaps as streaky bacon.

I've seen directions for cooking it in the oven, but not for small amounts.