Bacon Rashers

Bacon rashers are thin flat pieces of bacon.

Simplest Cooking

1. Pan fry (most common): a little bit oil, moderate/high heat, 5 mins (8 mins for crispy bacon), turn once
2. Oven: on a baking paper, split up (or they’ll stick together), 200 °C middle shelf, 15-20 mins (25-30 mins for crispy bacon)
3. Microwave (not recommended): 3 mins
4. Pan fry with water (trending): Add a little bit water just covering the rashers, high heat, until water is reduced down, keep cooking for a while, turn occasionally (you could add some oil unless you prefer it with good fat after water goes)

Tip

• Control your favourite texture by cooking time, from tender to crispy;
• It is easier with small kitchen tongs;
• Additional fats can be saved for other uses like frying eggs.
• No need to season because it’s salty enough.

Classic Dishes

British & American

1. Bacon Sandwiches: bacon is a perfect ingredient for sandwiches.
   • Bacon Sandwich: pure bacon sandwich, with brown sauce / ketchup
   • BLT: bacons, lettuce and tomato sandwich, with mayo
   • BEC: bacons, eggs and cheese sandwich
2. Full English Breakfast: classic British food. Pan fry bacon, eggs, sausages, mushrooms, tomatoes, baked beans etc with toasts
3. Pigs in Blankets: classic British food. wrap sausage with bacon rashers, oven cook

Italian

1. Creamy Pasta: bacons or chickens, cream and close cup mushroom pasta.

Innovative Dishes

1. Bacon can be used as a substitute of salted pork in any Chinese dishes:
   • Stir-fry Tenderstem with Bacon: cut bacon rashers into 3 pieces, simply stir-fry adding in garlic and soy sauce. An easy way to make some stir-fry veg and meat that tastes like Chinese food in the UK.

Varieties

1. By thickness: thin cut / standard / thick cut
   • Irregular shape bacon chunks are available at some supermarket. We can slice them into rashers no thicker than 1cm.
2. Smoked/ unsmoked
3. Rindless or not

Purchase Advice

It can be found in all British supermarkets.