There are few things I like more than Bacon. But Chocolate comes in as a close second. I haven’t had the honor of trying this, but if someone wants to pony up and send me a box, I will put your photo on the front page of Meata, and also give you a Well Done level membership. So go ahead, shoot me an email, and I’ll send you my address.
Also, make sure and read the description I posted under the photo. It’s from the website, and looks like a romance novel author is working over there! It’s amazing.
Breathe…engage your five senses, close your eyes and inhale deeply. Be in the present moment, notice the color of the chocolate, the glossy shine. Rub your thumb over the chocolate bar to release the aromas of smoked applewood bacon flirting with deep milk chocolate. Snap off just a tiny piece and place it in your mouth, let the lust of salt and sweet coat your tongue.
This is a video from Green-House.tv. This guy is great. He’s kind of like me, just less bacon…and I don’t fix stuff….and I don’t recycle….and I don’t live in the north…and well…we really don’t have much in common actually. But he’s still a good guy. But props to him for burger cooking. Also, he made a smoker out of carboard. He’s kind of like MacGyver for the grill!
Now, what he doesn’t do on here is talk about Bacon. I think cooking a burger without Bacon is like driving a car without an engine. I usually throw 5-8 strips of bacon on a burger. Then I’ll have a side of bacon along with it. Just finishes off any burger nicely.
1 lb ground beef, preferable grass fed free range, or 85% ground chuck from store
1 clove garlic, crushed or minced
2 tsp Worcestershire Sauce
2 tblsp chives, scallions, onions chopped fine
The trick here is to handle the beef as little as possible.
Start a charcoal fire.
Toast the buns if desired, watch out, as they burn easy. I know this from experience.
Set the beef in a bowl, add the rest of the ingredients, mix lightly.
Form into 3 or 4 patties, depending on size preference. Don’t mash the patties, the looser the better, but still retaining a burger shape.
press your thumb into the middle of each patty. this allows the center to cook at the same rate as the edges.
cook on a hot grill for 3 minutes a side.
if you want cheese, but it on when you flip the burger and cover grill.
Don’t press down on burgers while they are grilling, you’re pressing out all the juices
Hello, my name is Mike, and I’m a meataholic. I think I first knew when I had a problem when I was about 15. I’d put slim jims inside the pencil holders in my backpack. OH….wrong blog.
Well Folks, I bring to you today, something that will awaken your spirit, entice your mind, and gross out your significant other. It’s Bacon Flavored Lip Balm. Now the real question is does this stuff have little chunks in it, or just the flavor. It’s hard to say for sure.
When you’re hungry things can be complicated. You know you want to eat, but don’t know what to eat, and you can’t make up your mind because you’re blood sugar’s gone down the Marianas trench. We’ll worry no more with the handy and ALWAYS APPLICABLE UNDER EVERY CIRCUMSTANCE Bacon Flowchart.
Ok, so we all know that the brits are a little on the odd side when it comes to their dietary delights. But this site really brings a cholesterol laden tear to my eye! The site is dedicated to alternative meats. So you can get Haggis, Crocodile, Caribou, and a load of other weird and random meats! If someone wants to pony up £7.50 to get me and ostrich egg, I’d be more than happy to eat it! I’m thinking about making a Ostrich Omelet. I hear it can feed like 6 people or something crazy like that!
But the site is definitely worth checking out! It’s awesome!
Two days ago I wrote a post about the BA-K-47, a replica of the assault rifle AK-47 made entirely out of bacon & wire, and toasted to perfection by the use of a blowtorch. But if only the creators of that had known about Popular Science writer Theodore Grey’s latest experiment, they could have encorporated a level of bacon complexity and technology that would have made the official Science Pig proud.
Grey constructed a variation on a “thermal lance”, a device that usually is constructed by pumping pure oxygen into a nozzle filled with iron and magnesium that ignite a high temperatures super-heating the flame, and is commonly used to slice thru scrap metal. However this time, Grey used proscuitto (a Italian variation in itself on bacon) to create a channeled grease fire at the tip of the lance, instead of flammable metal. Would it work? was question one. Would it then cut thru a metal plate? was question two. See the badass results below:
Bacon’s got some great goddamn powers, we know. But can it fight off wave after wave of unruly Viet Cong stuck in the jungle? It couldn’t until now.
Introducing the BA-K-47: a full-scale 1:1 replica of the AK-47 made out of bacon (and structured with wire). The BA-K-47 is the creation of Nick from ThisIsFreakingRidiculous.com and was designed and built in honor of their (I’m sure first annual) Bacon Day event, because, hey, like the rest of us, they love bacon.
It’s creation included: “a total of eight hours to create, a lot of bacon, and a blowtorch… oh yeah, and our good friend beer helped too.”
Here’s a visual explaining the use of the blowtorch.
OF COURSE! I mean, they’re not going to fry it in gun form. That would just be too goddamn dangerous. Amazing work, men. Soldier of Porktune magazine will be calling very soon I’m sure.
FINALLY, a way to bring bacon digitally into the 21st century. AlphaPixel LLC has just developed the Pocket Bacon app for iPhone or iPod Touch, downloadable right now at the Apple iTunes Store. The app allows you select one of six “cooking surfaces”, as you can see here:
and then drop a side of bacon down onto it and watch and listen to it sizzle.
“That’s all it does?”, you might ask. And I’d reply, “IS THAT NOT AWESOME ENOUGH ANYWAYS, YOU UNGRATEFUL BASTARD!”, but then also point out to you that the app also provides access to a whole wealth of topical bacon news and bacon products that you can access or purchase, right from inside the app.
Pretty great so far. And when Apple introduces that lickable screen in the next upgrade, we’ll really be set.
[via pocketbacon.com]
There’s a whole wealth of artwork on the internet crafted out of meat, but what’s more timely, what with all of this off-shore hijacking going on in the world, than PIRATES!
Hottestsnaps.blogspot.com recently posted a story (reposted from the Something Awful archives), of several men who spent an afternoon, a lot of dough, and some blue food-coloring to make a real smashing replica of a 18th century British three-master ship, BEING attacked by pirates, ALL OUT OF MEAT.
Ingredients included:
- 20 sausages
- 48 rashers of bacon
- 1.2kg of sausage meat
- 1kg of pork mince
- 10 franks
- 1kg of pastry (not 100% meat this time)
- 1 onion
- 1 mushroom
- 2 packets of chipolata sausages
- various food colourings
- sage
Judging by their use of the metric system, spelling of “colouring”, and later use of the Union Jack, I’m gonna guess these fellows are English themselves, but it still makes me proud that our cousins across the pond still have a strong love for meat and dumb art made out of it.
Breathe…engage your five senses, close your eyes and inhale deeply. Be in the present moment, notice the color of the chocolate, the glossy shine. Rub your thumb over the chocolate bar to release the aromas of smoked applewood bacon flirting with deep milk chocolate. Snap off just a tiny piece and place it in your mouth, let the lust of salt and sweet coat your tongue.
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FINALLY, a way to bring bacon digitally into the 21st century. AlphaPixel LLC has just developed the 
