bacon - how do you eat yours?

[jazzactivist]

I've just made a myself a lovely bacon sandwich for lunch. I like my bacon smoked and crispy, some might say "cremated". The wholewheat bread must be dipped and crispy on one side too (something I learnt from Yorkshire OH), and a nice thin spread of spicy apple chutney instead of butter. Mmmm! How do you like yours?

[franbee]

Warm bun, and bacon not too well done. Maybe tomato ketchup. No other spread.

[Crocus]

Crispy as possible, on a slice of buttered (real butter) bread, or of course the old classic, with eggs and toast.

[cindy]

Thin and crispy in a buttered whole meal bread sandwich

[dragonfly]

White crusty bap with a fried egg, then pale floppy bacon (can't stand it well done) and plenty of brown sauce.

[Crocus]

We had crispy bacon on bread this afternoon - yummy. Do you girls grill it in the oven or fry in a pan? I do both actually, depends on the mood! I don't mind floppy bacon, but prefer it crispy.

Now that you mention soft baps DF, on our first ever visit to the UK we had lovely soft baps (quite large actually) with steak in a pub in Ampleforth not far from Byland Abby - it was delicious. (B&B was Carr House.)

[Katelb]

I often have a bacon sandwich and grill the bacon and use tomato sauce on my special bread which I sometimes toast for a crispy effect,I don't like bacon too well done though ,just floppy!

[jazzactivist]

I can't eat the fatty part unless it is virtually burnt to a crisp! I always used to grill bacon, but in this house the smoke detector is very sensitive and seems to go off whenever something is under the grill, but not if it is cooked on the hob. OH taught me how to cook bacon in a frying pan, but I use a small amount of butter rather than oil. Then put the bread in it after the bacon has cooked to crisp up one side. No ketchup allowed in our house, as OH has a complete aversion to it. If I want him to comply with anything I threaten to bath him in it!

[Crocus]

Poor OH Jazz, just think about it, sitting in the bath with Ketchup up to wherever! :eek::D

[dragonfly]

OH had a bacon and cheese pannini today.

Talking of smoke detectors Jazz, as I was leaving for work the other day one of ours went off and I didn't have time to faf with it. It was very loud and could be heard from outside so I went round to my neighbour (as we look out for each other) to tell them not to call the police as it was a dodgy smoke detector. My old neighbour insisted on coming to look at it and even stood on a chair and took the battery out. I was really worried as he was teetering on the chair and wished I hadn't told him. Anyway, even with the battery out it still kept going off. I didn't understand how it could still be going as I knew it wasn't wired to the electric. We had to leave it and I went to work and called OH to tell him. When I got home he was laughing at me and asked why we had taken the battery out of the smoke alarm that wasn't going off and not the one that was. Apparently, unknown to me, he had taken one out of another room and left it lying on a cupboard in this room and it was that one which was going off. I could have taken the battery out without the chair ordeal. I did feel a fool but the alarm was so loud and piercing that we couldn't really tell where it was coming from, we just assumed.

[souter girl]

I was once staying (on my own) in a hotel in Scotland and the battery clearly needed replacing as it "beeped" all night. Well, I just couldn't sleep so eventually I rang reception and Alaistair the owner arrived with a ladder and removed the battery. I wnder if he thought we were just lonely females as unbeknown to me, my sister, visitng from Canada the year before, had had exactly the same problem!!

[jazzactivist]

Hmmm - I wonder, SG, 'sounds a bit Faulty Towers to me! OH stayed for a year in an hotel in the very north of Scotland while he was 'trouble-shooting' at a project up there, and that hotel was the same. It had problems with the fire alarms and sprinklers which had to constantly be dealt with, and OH noticed that it was always in the rooms of the female guests...