I'm an American and grew up eating "streaky bacon" cooked till it's shruken down and crispy. You crackle it over stuff or eat it in strips. Delishus. I find Aussie bacon to be more like thinly sliced ham. Some places cook it very rare so the fat doesn't render down and is "wiggly". Yuk! What are your thoughts and opinions?
American or Australian bacon?
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By middle bacon that isnt shortcut best of both.
I always go for the Aldi middle bacon. Sometimes their budget bacon is alright too, if not as pretty.
I like thick cut crispy bacon.
Get the bacon, put it in the pan with some water and wait for the fat to render.
You can often get American style bacon in hotel breakfast buffets if you are feeling homesick for it.
I prefer Australian style, but well cooked (not to crumbling, however).
The British style is weirder still. It gets a salty scum on it as it cooks as the nitrated or whatever leach out.I have lived in North America for quite a number of years and I find streaky bacon to be very fatty unless it is cooked to the point of cremation. Middle bacon is best cooked under a grill to enable the fat to render and the rind to crisp up. Happy 4th to all my American friends!
Never seen the point of 'american' bacon. It's so overcooked it's like eating cardboard, is mostly carbonised fat, and makes you wonder where the meat went on american pigs.
Bacon needs to be still recognisably meat, mobile and actually possible to bite without it, or your teeth, shattering.
If it's not fit to make a bacon butty, it's only fit to be laid across the top of a roast chicken as it cooks.
Well there is Australian and then there's Australian bacon. Most of the bacon you find at the supermarkets is imported.
Check out the Australian bacon awards that were announced at the end of June:
http://m.pork.com.au/app/australian-bacon-week-2016/5248142/…http://australianpork.com.au/latest-news/bacon-week-and-baco…
The best is British Bacon. Aldi were selling it and have now stopped.
Some of the coles stores are still selling it.
It's usually marked as 'British Style Bacon."
It's seriously the best thing since sliced bread.
The bacon you get in USA is heavily salted and smoked , cooked to crispy .
The bacon you get in Australia is barely smoked and heavily brlned , has the the taste and the texture of Canadian bacon , doesn't get crisp as nice due to the benne content , it gets from soft to just too dry
I like both. I usually find that you don't get enough meat in a serve of American bacon though, so it's like eating a snack versus a meal. So unless there's a big pile of them, I don't feel as satisfied. But then again, I haven't eaten American bacon since I was a kid, and there were a lot of other people at the table. You can always overcook the Australian bacon a bit and have burnt bits to enhance the taste. Do know that burnt meat tend to be carcinogenic.