I ate a whole package of precooked bacon by myself... BECAUSE I COULD.
Precooked? What the hell?
Have you noticed that USA bacon is (or certainly used to be) a pale shadow of UK bacon. For a start, the USA bacon is merely the cheapest cut of bacon, called "streaky bacon" for obvious reasons.
Both types of bacon are great. But you have to know where to apply them:
Streaky: burgers, salads, soups, wrapped around chicken.
Rashers: grill up, sandwiches.
I’ve used precooked many times. Same shit you get in supermarket sandwiches.
Agreed on all counts. The kind of bacon you're talking about we call "Canadian bacon" which is more like sliced ham. Frizzled ham is ALSO a family favorite; but with the deregulation, they can now inject up to 24% by weight of water and not even tell you. They can inject up to 34% of salt & water "seasoning" as long as they tell you SOMEWHERE on the package; more than that and they have to call it "ham & water product".
Yes, seriously. This literally makes all but the most expensive brands (as in $10/lb or more) waterlogged shite that steam-cooks instead of frizzling in the pan.
That said... the precooked bacon I have right now was reduced for quick sale to $1/package so I filled the freezer with it; it's Hormel premium so is decent cuts of bacon, cut deli-thin and cooked, then frozen. You have to be VERY sparing on the reheating or it turns rubbery; it's best, actually, just left out on the counter to thaw. The result is better-than-average cold bacon as you might use breakfast leftovers to make a BLT for lunch.
That said... even BAD bacon beats almost any lesser food all hollow, and today I was having a
" grrr...! I need coffee before I can make coffee... " morning... so leftover coffee and 20-second bacon was literally
heaven.
mnem
Unless it's bad-bad, as in gone bad... that's just a sin against the food gods.