Bacon. How thick do you like yours sliced??

[Moondog55]

It depends on how I'm cooking mine, to add to other foods the standard thin slices from the supermarket are OK.
For frying to eat for breakfast I like mine thick, 5mm is OK, if really rich and fatty then 6mm is better.
How much bacon is enough, I can eat a lot more than I can carry but I usually reckon on 65.70 grams per meal

[frenchy_84]

65.70 Grams! 65.45g is to little and 65.95 to much!

[Moondog55]

Whoops, edit needed.
65 SPACE 70 grams
Tell me do you pick nits for a living??

[jacko1956]

I am not a connoisseur (?spelling) of food. I tend to throw in the pack what is cheap and easy and on hand at the time. 2 minute noodles are my trail mainstay. However I am by nature a carnivore - greens are what you feed to food or otherwise it is a sign your food has gone off.
I eat bacon when it is available in whatever size shape or thickness it comes in. If you put enough on the plate I will eat it. I have not yet met a plate that can hold more than I can eat after a couple of days hiking. I would prefer a bit of beef and a couple of snags thrown in for variety but bacon is good. 65 to 70 grams does not sound like me at all. I am sure my mouth will accomadate sizes well beyond 5mm in thickness. If trying to determine what could be carried for daily usage I would be inclined to pack a kilo, eat half for dinner the first night and the rest for breakfast the next day and then live on the noodles until I can next resupply. This approach greatly enhances hiking speed about 2 to 3 days in.
Sorry Moondog, I'll now leave this post for people to put serious responses, but at least I didn't nit pick!

[Moondog55]

Jacko there is a big part of me that agrees with you.
65 grams is 1 or 2 rashers of the skinny cut sold at the supermarket. My mates in kitchens keep telling me that bacon is a condiment not a food group, but they give me the same BS about coffee.
Bacon and coffee are the major food groups as far as my day is concerned

[jackhinde]

amount and thickness of bacon required is inversely proportional to temperature and directly proportional to amount of rum or whisky consumed the previous evening.

this weekend we are taking a bottle of laphroaig between 3 to a chilly mountain top, so a lot of thick butchers bacon was purchased yesterday.

[corvus]

amount and thickness of bacon required is inversely proportional to temperature and directly proportional to amount of rum or whisky consumed the previous evening.

this weekend we are taking a bottle of laphroaig between 3 to a chilly mountain top, so a lot of thick butchers bacon was purchased yesterday.

What only one bottle between three , sheesh that is only a wee bit more than four fingers each in a decent size glass man !
I wonder if you are my neighbor in Islay next to my square foot?
Enjoy your walk.

Sl'ainte
corvus

[frenchy_84]

Tell me do you pick nits for a living??

Do i pick nits for a living? No, its not very profitable. Interesting you ask though, considering you have a thread asking how thick people slice their bacon...

[Strider]

Tell me do you pick nits for a living??

Do i pick nits for a living? No, its not very profitable. Interesting you ask though, considering you have a thread asking how thick people slice their bacon...

And further specifies a functional difference between 5mm and 6mm cuts!

[Moondog55]

Actually speaking as a professional cook the difference in profitability is huge and even 3mm would be considered to thick, 5mm bacon cooks quicker 3mm tends to burn 6mm taste better sometimes
Just out of interest i went and measured our cheap "Safeway" breakfast bacon, really hard to measure bacon accurately ; it squishes under the vernier callipers, but about 2.1mm thick

Last edited by Moondog55 on Mon 14 May, 2012 7:49 pm, edited 1 time in total.

[gayet]

And I prefer my 'bacon' cold smoked and sliced very thin.