I was thinking

[Zagut]

Yup. Which is exactly why I suggested wrapping 1/4 pound of slices for one of those babies.

Are you and my Cardiologist in cahoots?

I do wanna be here as long as I can.

But I love the suggestion.

 

[PrincessFiona60]

My Cardiologist threw his hands up in the air and ran from the room...I shouldn't have told him about the eggs...

 

[RPCookin]

And that can be a very dangerous thing.

Didn't know where to put this but it was either General Cooking or Terms & Techniques. GC won.

This might be of interest to those cooking for one as I do.
　
I love bacon.

I also love a bargin.

I tend to buy bacon in large packages (3lbs. is large for one person) but it's less expencive this way and I'm very cheap/ frugal. It is also frequently on sale in those packages so I take advantage of that.

One problem this presented was that I don't like the mess involved in cooking bacon. (Yes I've tried the oven method but prefer it cooked the old fashion way in a pan.) So I tend to go on a bacon binge.
I'd cook large batches or the whole three pounds and end up with a mountain of bacon . Store it in the fridge and have bacon everything to use it up before it sat too long in the fridge. (Not that bacon everything is a bad thing.)
　

I agree about preferring my bacon fried, and I too don't like the mess. That's why I bought one of THESE.

It's great for all of those messy frying jobs - last night I used it when I made crispy chicken fingers. It's superior to the screen types, which I've also had. Fits all up to my 12" fry pans, but not my 14".

 

[FeralBoy]

Ends and pieces for all my baconry needs

 

[blissful]

Ends and pieces for all my baconry needs

I buy those too. I chop it in 1 inch pieces, great for sandwiches, salads, add to a stew or soup.

Regular sliced bacon, 16 oz is usually 1 oz slices, so 16 slices. Occasionally, you will get 15 slices, sometimes 17 slices. It is helpful to know this if you are wrapping a certain number of chicken breasts or annaheim peppers.

Thick sliced bacon: no idea how many slices per pound.

 

[Cooking Goddess]

Usually 12, blissful. I buy thick-sliced since I tend to use bacon more like a condiment than a "food". Regular bacon seems to disappear when I fry it up for dishes like my Brussels Sprouts casserole.

 

[RPCookin]

Usually 12, blissful. I buy thick-sliced since I tend to use bacon more like a condiment than a "food". Regular bacon seems to disappear when I fry it up for dishes like my Brussels Sprouts casserole.

I even buy it unsliced when I know that it will be mostly used for something other than breakfast bacon or BLT's. That way I control the size of the pieces.

 

[FeralBoy]

If you have a good Italian grocer near you.... pancetta