Get it Right, Colored Bacon is Wrong!
This is not one of those blogs that celebrates all things bacon. We have standards. We appreciate and celebrate the drive to take bacon to new and greater heights, and we recognize that such striving ambition sometimes ends in horrible, disgusting failure. We do not go out of our way to condem such failures, but neither do we elevate them as some do.
Nevertheless, when others, such as Bacon Today, proclaim something like Neil Caldwell’s “colored bacon,” to be “pure genius,” we can not hold our tongues, we must call it what it is, an abomination. It is a waste of perfectly good bacon. It will be a dark day if Perez Hilton’s desire to see the commercialization of colored bacon ever comes to pass. If good men and women do not raise their voices in protest when such travesties are held up for acclamation and praise, then still more good bacon will be wasted as others are inspired to sacrifice it to horrid and twisted ends.
TopPot Prototype Bacon Maple Bar
Today some of the other people in the office returned from picking up coffee with something special. I tried to play it cool, but it didn’t take long before I had to get up from my desk and see what all the fuss was about.
It was the very last of 120 Bacon Maple Bars baked as a prototype at TopPot Doughnuts‘ flagship store in Seattle (where the excellent staff often has my favorite doughnut, a cinnamon-sugar ring, ready for me before I get to the counter).
After a photo-op, the knives came out, we cut it up and sampled it. Reviews were universally positive, though I wouldn’t be me if I didn’t note that the bar itself was a little on the doughy side, and I’m not sure about the provenance of the bacon. It was, however, quite tasty, and I would have liked more than the two bites I tried, though not a whole bar’s worth.
Bacon Cinnamon Rolls
As much as I love bacon, I often feel that people waste perfectly good bacon by pairing it with some other food in pursuit of foolish excess, but lets face it, Bacon Cinnamon Rolls sound delicious!
Details, including a step by step directions on turning a pack of bacon, and pillsbury dough into these bacony-delicious treats on Cakespy.
(via A Half Cup, give or take.)
Bacon Makes It a Little Better
I was about to get into our car this morning when I noticed that someone had creased the hell out of the driver’s side door. No note from anyone accepting responsibility.
Fortunately, I was on my way to breakfast. An extra order of bacon takes the edge off.
Bacon Explosion Poses the Question: Is There Such Thing as Too Much Bacon?
The New York Times Food and Dining section brings news of an important experiment. Jason Day and Aaron Chronister, two competitive BBQers from Kansas City have manged to fuse the three greatest pork preparations (Sausage, Bacon, and BBQ) into one amazing dish. They call it Bacon Explosion.
Details of the experiment are available on the BBQ Addicts website. Jason Day has provided all the information you need to create your own Bacon Explosion, including a deceptively short list of ingredients, and detailed assembly instructions, complete with helpful photos.
I’ll be honest, I admire the passion for Bacon in some of these projects, but I wouldn’t want to eat the end result. That’s not the case with Bacon Explosion. My mouth is watering, and not just because it is past lunch time.
Bacon Explosion: The BBQ Sausage Recipe of all Recipes.
Sweeet Sweeet Bacon
Check this out, candied bacon, complete with DIY instructions.
It’s candy coated!
