Bacon Rashers

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July 22, 2024

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)
Condiment

No need to season because it’s salty enough.

Cooking Tips
  • 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.

Classic Dishes

Bacon is traditionally for English breakfast, and also essential to sandwiches.

  1. Sandwich:
    • 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 Breakfast: pan fry bacon, eggs, sausages, mushrooms, tomatoes, baked beans etc with toasts
  3. Pasta:
    • Creamy Pasta: bacons or chickens, cream and mushroom pasta
  4. Pigs in Blankets: wrap sausage with bacon rashers, oven cook

Innovative Dishes

  1. Bacon can be used as a substitute of salted pork in any Chinese dishes:
    • Stir-fry Tenderstem with Bacon

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
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