Bacon is being ruined. unless you order from the internet something like pic related, you aren't getting real bacon.bacon is being made now for the lowest common denominator. it's bland, unsmoked, and with almost no salt in it.when I was a kid, ALL bacon was like pic related. actually smoked, salted to hell, and dry cured. it was awesome. if you hate bacon or think it is overrated this is why.tastelets complained and morons who believe salt is bad for you have ruined bacon. it's no longer smoked, it's not even injected with smoke flavor (no matter what the package says).
>>20972748Maybe in your 3rd world shithole. There's all kinds of decent bacon in the supermarkets here, or if I'm feeling particularly faggoty, I have about 5 farmer's markets within a half hour drive, the nearest being 10 mins ish
>>20972748Being awoken by the smell of bacon cooking is my fondest childhood memo>>20972757What do you want? A pat on your hefty fat back?
>>20972748>sugar
>>20972757>There's all kinds of decent bacon in the supermarkets herepost brand and packaged names
>>20972768see here's one, he doesn't know that sugar is used to cure real bacon.
Ma'am, I don't like country bacon. It's a costlier yet paradoxically subpar product for most cooking except for chopping it up to use in soups and with greens. >>20972757I don't even live anywhere special and I can get both country bacon and wet-cured bacon sliced to order from most butchers here. Also beef "bacon," which I was surprised is actually good. Who knew.
>>20972778>I can get both country baconpost brand name
>>20972778>I don't like country bacon.once again, proving me right.
>>20972774Not that Anon (I'm >>20972778) and I'm not sure of the brands because I've never paid attention to the packaging when they grab the hunk of bacon to slice it for me. The only one I'm sure of is the Godshall's but that's both beef bacon and wet-cured so not the country bacon you prefer.
>>20972782Madam, that's proving only that we have different tastes and preferences, much as you prefer the company of men and I do not.
>>20972783>country bacon you prefer"country bacon" is what it is called now, but ALL bacon was made that way until sometime in the last 40 years.
>>20972786found the homo. I bet you like "beef".
>>20972757you ever notice there is always some homosexual that pops in to every thread to tell everyone who superior they are because the live in some mayberry shithole.
>>20972791I do not, actually. I prefer pork to beef in almost all applications. >>20972789>"country bacon" is what it is called nowAnd since I live now, that's what I call it. Glad we cleared that up.
>>20972800I knew you liked "beef" fairy.
>>20972774Jolly Hog, Finnebrogue, Spoilt Pig, Denhay, DukesHill
>>20972797Who superior?
>>20972805well that's no good, too far away to order some.
Used to be able to get really good speck and good smoked bacon at home but then moved even more remote to some tourist company town shithole, no butcher for hours and no good anything at the local supermarket
>>20972812me
>>20972802iyss>>20972780Other than >>20972783, I just remembered another brand but this one is also different. It's Lowell. The way it's processed makes it taste very, very similar to ham, moreso than it does to either country bacon or "regular" bacon. I've seen the Poles at that butcher shop just slice some to put in sandwiches and eat as-is without further cooking so I would guess that this is why it tastes more like ham. It's pretty good, but not bacon in any sense to me. Just very fatty, super delicious ham.
colonel newsom's Hickory Smoked Country Bacon is another real bacon, but is so salty it is nearly inedible. is great for putting in recipes that call for bacon.
>>20972830That's why I said in >>20972778 that the stuff is best for soup and greens.
>>20972821most of the butcher shops where I live are either hipster run, or don't know what fatback is.I was looking for fatback to make sausage, walked in asked someone who worked there, and he said he had never heard of it. I just turned around and walked out.the hipster butcher has damn good meat I got prime grade "brontosaur ribs" there once.
>>20972834well fathers is not so salty you can't eat it.
>>20972837>don't know what fatback isHoly fucking shit, you need to move. I live in Delaware and get fatback at fucking Safeway/Acme. Even an Acme in Philadelphia I used to shop at had the stuff, but not sliced to order. Just vacuum packed chunks of it in the butcher's department. >>20972838I'll keep a look out for it. I've tried country bacon a few times, each different brands, but all were too salty to enjoy in the same way as I can regular slab bacon or even shitty shit like Oscar Mayer and Johnsonville.
my favorite thing in posts about bacon not being smoked is when people recommend a bacon for being smokey and I buy it, and it's not smokey in the slightest. most people have no idea what real bacon tastes like.
>>20972842>I'll keep a look out for it.unless you live near where it is made, it doesn't show up in stores. it's mail order for most people.also I won't be moving. to much stuff and I'm done with moving. next place I live will be an assisted living facility. never moving again.
>>20972748>Sodium nitriteEnjoy your cancer, buddy.
>>20972844True. Most smoked bacon is only lightly smoked. To be honest, I find well-smoked bacon too strong to eat on it's own but it's very good for cooking. The same place that sells the one I described in >>20972821 also sells a bacon that's literally black with smoke, processed with a heavy amount of juniper berries similar to jałowcowa, a Polish juniper sausage. I use it in bigos, a type of "stew" of sauerkraut and cured meats and stuff.
>>20972842>I live in Delaware and get fatback at fucking Safeway/Acmethe only place I have found it is in asian grocery stores, although at one of them, it was all rancid. groceries (safeway included) here only carry what flies off the shelves. I live in a city of over 2 million people and have to go to the asian grocery to get malted milk powder. grocery stores used to carry anything you wanted, now only popular shit.
>>20972852>sells a bacon that's literally black with smoke
>>20972774Hempler's from Washington and Hill's from Oregon. Hempler's does a nice shoulder bacon and Hill's has a super thick cut bacon that's nice for recipes. You can get good sized cubes of meat that hold up during cooking, it's almost as good as buying and cutting it yourself from a whole slab
>>20972748I've had all types of bacon and I've only been disappointed once.
>>20972852the "gypsy" speck I got when I lived in my hometown was smoked like this
>>20972973I was going to post Hill's. Their sage sausage is delicious also.
>>20972973>double smokeddoubt
Bacon is a shit tier food. It works for enhancing dishes in small quantities, but to have several strips of bacon as your main protein is retarded. I'm guessing it's all the "le bacon xD" 2010s millennials, now mid-30s Dude Wipes users, crying about it ITT.
>>20973001the fuck are you on about?
>>20972748Even cheap bacon tastes like bacon so I dunno what you're on about op
>>20972797Mayberry shit hole is a good one
>>20973001how does someone become this uh dumb?
>>20973016Your sense of taste dulls with age
>>20973029Not really. It happens later in life in your 60s, not over time before that.
>>20973012>most lucid bacon eater
>>20973016guarantee OP is another milliennial mad that he's getting old/fat/bald and is unnecessarily romanticizing the past a method of coping
>>20973092Anon, generational warfare is gay as fuck kek. every generation has a similar makeup of people.
>>20973082lucid enough to realise the power of not knowing or caring about Internet trends from half my life ago or whatever the hell """""man wipes""''" are, while you're constantly searching for shit to get mad about like a street dog scrounging for food scraps
>>20973082Shalom or Inshallah?
>>20973100> generational warfare is gay as fucki agree, but you can't deny that many on 4chan love engaging in it and come from that angle. look at virtually every thread seething about zoomers. it's not zoomers making the majority of those.
>>20973128you gotta stop looking at things as groups. it's not real.
>>20973134>t.
>>20973016>Even cheap bacon tastes like bacongo buy real bacon, like in OP's post and come back and say that. there is a HUGE difference.
>>20973092>OP is another milliennialnope I'm Gen X.
>>20972748Haven't bought bacon in a while, just checked Publix website and I guess they don't carry the brand I used to buy just national chain shit now. You might be on to something.
>>20972805Best bacon here is middle bacon. You've got the back, the streaky and a bit of crackling on outside
I like this stuff. It's leaner, and zero sugar so it doesn't taste like candy. I like to add some fresh ground black pepper before cooking it.
>>20973369That's wet cured. OP wants dry cured.I've had that one. It's good but sliced too thick to fry up nicely. I likes my's bacons crispy.
>>20973369im a tried and true slop enjoyer and for me its the black forest bacon
>>20973369that does not look like it has a speck of smoke on or in it.
Benton's is my favorite bacon, so cured it doesn't need refrigeration before you open the package.
>>20973420>uncured**except that it is cured
>>20973569I've had that, I think I remember that fathers is better. which also doesn't need refrigeration.
>>20972973+1 for Hempler's, it's good shit. I can only get it at HEB, though.
>>20972973daily's honey bacon is also a top tier brand
>>20973803>>20973821are they very smokey flavored? if not they are not real bacon.
>>20972748buy an ad you giant faggot
>>20972797>you ever notice there is always some homosexual that pops in to every thread to tell everyone who superior they are because the live in some mayberry shithole.If he has 5 farmers markets around he lives in a rich hipster area. Also any area near Amish will have great smoked and cured meat. I live in NJ and there are Amish supermarkets around.
>>20972748australian bacon would make you fags seethe
>>20973100But zoomers skipped a few generations and became extra gay. Every generation is gayer than the last one.
>>20974109Looks like a cock lmao, you Aussies are a bunch a fags.
>>20972748I don't eat pork, infidel.
>>20974063>If he has 5 farmers markets around he lives in a rich hipster arealolI guess I must be a rich hipster because I, too, live in an area with numerous farmer's markets lmaoOnly two are year round, though.
>>20974113>looks at bacon>sees a dickSounds like you're the gay one.Also what the fuck is wrong with your cock if it's that misshapen?Did you get a botched circumcision?Maybe that's why you shouldn't engage in three thousand year old sandjew ceremony.
>>20972797yeah here you are
>>20973720That writing is for brainlets you can just ignore it
>>20972748Do you cure your own bacon? I find an immersion cure to work best because with time you're guaranteed to get the ppm nitrates right as long as you can do basic math. Less salty, about 1.1% salt by volume brings out the flavor of the pork just right. It's easier to season an immersion cure, I prefer to boil pepper corns for 15 minutes and add rosemary and thyme right as I turn off the heat. I find myosin still coming out of the meat when I cook it so I'm not taking much, if any, nutrition out with the immersion. Also, the bacon in your pic looks under-smoked and applewood is best for pork anyway. I'm sure it's still good though.>>20972776I haven't met a single person who's liked sugar cured bacon more than bacon without sugar, but I don't have a large circle of friends.
>>20973208I've eaten all sorts. It still tastes like bacon.
>>20974110Yet they aren't more gay in reality.
>>20975119>the bacon in your pic looks under-smokedon the contrary it is one of the most smoke flavored bacon's I have ever had. you can smell the smoke through the package.also having sugar in the cure is not the same as sugar cured. it has almost no detectable sweetness.
>>20975152does it taste smokey? have you ever had smokey bacon. just having bacon does not mean it is smoked. 95% of bacon you buy in a store has zero smoke or smoke flavor in it.
>>20972748I buy all my food from the gas station: the post
>>20975156>>20975326
>>20975325You seem unable to believe I can eat both cheap bacon and expensive (but not really) bacon.
>>20975341until this moment you have not indicated that you have or have not.
>>20975156I once met a guy from KentuckyWhose cousin gave him lots of suckyOne night she refused so she left black and bruised"Next time, bitch, you won't be so lucky"
>>20975555checked n keked
The worst bacon can be found in my country since they removed the only good ones from the stores, fucking assholes.
>>20975601>No it wasn’tyes it was. in the 70's all bacon was actually smoked and heavily salted.
>>20975654>they removed the only good ones from the storesno they just stopped smoking the bacon.
>>20972748I get bacon from my local butcher. Far superior to grocery store bacon in both price and quality.
>>20972748Each one of those bags is only a half serving of bacon
>>20976108well. I get your hyperbole... but they are pretty salty, and I highly doubt you could eat more than 2 slices plain. I love salty foods and that's about all I can eat.
>>20975555There was a man in Kentucky townWho greeted me with such a frownI asked him "What's wrong?"He glanced at me sidelong,Said he fucked his cousin, but their kid was brown
>>20972768>sodium nitrite
>>20972748Make your own bacon, its easy. Dry or wet cure, you can do it with as little equipment as a container, grill, and knife. I regularly make pounds of it at a time with cubeb and long pepper, sugar, salt, and sometimes cayenne.
>>20972748Mostly I've noticed bacon has less fat/the fat doesn't render as well these days. Used to be a portion of bacon could give me cooking fat for days, now it's barely got enough to cook itself and never comes out as crispy.
>>20977833I did, it cost a fortune, I had to build a cold smoker, and the results (while very tasty) were not worth the price and the trouble. >>20977874what kind of bacon do you use? plain old store bacon makes a ton of grease, and cooks up super crispy.I cook up 2 to 4 pounds of bacon every couple of months and store the grease in pic related.
>>20978060You may be overthinking the process, I know I did when I first started. Meat preservation occured before human beings drew pictograms. Its as old as clubbing something delicious over the head and cooking it.
>>20972973Can also confirm Hempler's they're solid as hell and they always thick cut their slices.
>>20972973I called up Hill's and asked if they used Ractopamine in their pork and the dude got all defensive. So I don't buy that any more.
>>20978612>You may be overthinking the processno I didn't.
>>20980270but is it VERY smokey?
>>20980487You can always add a few cups of liquid smoke if you need more.
>>20980491I have tried that, and it is not the same. is it very smokey? why can no one answer this question?
