My SO and I are big fans of a bacon sandwich, specifically thick cut, under the grill, ketchup and english mustard in seedy bread on a weekend morning. Divine.
We normally go for morrisons extra thick cut, couple quid a pack so not too expensive. You get 6 rashers in a pack which imo is preferrable to getting those skinny morsels which end up getting dried to a crisp without close supervision.
Occasionally we stray the path and get bacon from tesco and coop but it never lives up.
Is there better bacon elsewhere we should know about?
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I’ve never tried bacon but the best meat I have ever had has been homemade from the butchers. I imagine you can go into a butchers and have the bacon cut to your required thickness and you can experiment with this. Surprisingly my local butcher is cheaper than my local supermarket for meat and chicken.
I’m not a bacon expert, but I like how much detail you’ve gone into. It makes me really want a bacon sarnie, even if you do use ketchup AND mustard.
Local butchers, vastly superior in almost every way.
A dry cure streaky unsmoked bacon is the total king for an duck egg and bacon on toasted English muffin. Thus is our usual Christmas morning breakfast.
A decent butchers
Fuck you, now I have to make myself a bacon sandwich.
Edit. It was delicious
Most of the Finest/Specially Selected/etc. thick cut smoked bacon works for me… cooked just right so the rind is crisp but the bacon is tender. A definite art form.
Have you ever tried curing your own bacon?
Usually works best with streaky (so curing pork belly). Cut so thick it’s like gammon… beautiful.
Waitrose maple bacon is pretty good.
There’s a farm shop not too far from me that does exceptionally good dry-cure thick-cut bacon.
It has to be Butcher’s bacon. Supermarket bacon is pumped full of fluid and cut far too thin.
The bacon from my butcher is more like a thin gammon steak.
You need to go to a proper butchers, that is where you will find the good bacon
I’d suggest finding a local butchers or farm, it’s much better quality since the animals had a better quality of life.
If you don’t have a local butcher (which will always be the best option) try Waitrose. Their meat is expensive, but much higher quality than other stores.
I used to get my bacon from Morrisons as well, but where I live now we don’t have one. I tried Tesco’s but it was very hit and miss, a bit bland and sometimes it was horribly salty. I now buy the thick cut packs from Sainsbury, and I think you can really taste the quality of it compared to other shops.
A shop that isn’t halal
Thanks all, consensus is clearly find a butcher. Will update when we make the ultimate bacon sandwich