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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Perd Hapley on April 06, 2012, 02:20:43 AM
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So you guys aren't all that excited about pepperoni. Is there any meat you baconphiles like better than bacon?
Just curious.
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Almost all meat is good but there is a hierarchy to the meat world.
Even in the kingdom of bacon there are different varieties, each with their own merits.
Sugar cured bacon
Salt cured bacon
Arkansas bacon
Even the lowly and oft maligned Canadian bacon has its proper place in the court of bacon.
Even ham rates a place at the table in the house of bacon.
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If ham rates a spot, so should smoked pork tenderloin.....
....sausages like pepperoni are more of a meat product....like Velveeta isn't cheese, but a cheese product.....
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I'd place steak, properly barbequed pork, and maybe a good country ham above bacon myself. Kinda a Ginger or Maryann thing, it's a trick question, the only answer is all of them, right now.
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No.
Well...
Ok, good country ham. I'll kill for that stuff.
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hmmm... Maybe maryland stuffed ham.
Also, Really good BBQ. Oklahoma Joes, etc.
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One of the guys at deer camp knows a butcher. The most awesome thing he's ever brought was bacon that was so lean we had to use butter to cook it.
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Fatback.
Fried, then cut up into bits and mixed with grits.
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So most of you would pick bacon over steak? ???
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hmmm... Maybe maryland stuffed ham.
Also, Really good BBQ. Oklahoma Joes, etc.
And Spam.
jb
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So most of you would pick bacon over steak? ???
Sometimes bacon is wrapped around a filet . . . to improve the steak.
I've never heard of anyone trying to improve bacon by wrapping a steak around it.
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Well I've never heard of anyone dropping a c note for a couple of bacon dinners. (Or whatever it costs to dine at Ruth's Chris; I wouldn't know.)
By the way, I'm eating steak for breakfast RIGHT NOW, and it am gooooood. :)
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Lamb chops.
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Lamb chops.
???
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[barf]
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The problem is there has to be a definition of "better."
Bacon is the candy of meats. It tastes awesome. It improves the taste of many other meats, when used in combination.
But it's like candy in that there is a less... substance to bacon. Compare it to a nice bite of steak that almost melts in your mouth. There's a fullness to the steak that isn't there with the bacon.
So, is bacon better than steak? Is a F-150 better than a Corvette? It all depends on the purpose. (And I'm not sure whether bacon is the F-150 or the Corvette...)
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Sushi grade Halibut, less than 24 hours from the catch comes close, but it's such a different category, it doesn't really knock bacon off it's pedestal.
The problem is there has to be a definition of "better."
Bacon is the candy of meats. It tastes awesome. It improves the taste of many other meats, when used in combination.
But it's like candy in that there is a less... substance to bacon. Compare it to a nice bite of steak that almost melts in your mouth. There's a fullness to the steak that isn't there with the bacon.
So, is bacon better than steak? Is a F-150 better than a Corvette? It all depends on the purpose. (And I'm not sure whether bacon is the F-150 or the Corvette...)
A flawed premise. You're simply failing to cook enough bacon at once.
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Shouldn't you be busy breaking your daughter's other arm, Chris?
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Is there a meat better than bacon?
No.
So, is bacon better than steak?
Yes.
Next question?
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So most of you would pick bacon over steak? ???
Why pick one or the other? Just have a steak and some bacon.
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Sushi grade Halibut, less than 24 hours from the catch comes close, but it's such a different category, it doesn't really knock bacon off it's pedestal.
If fish tasted anything like bacon, fishing would be worth the time, money and effort so many of you weirdos spend on it.
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Tri tip. And properly prepared elk steaks.
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At the risk of being accused of using sissy French words, Filet Mignon, done right, beats bacon handily.
Flame away.
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At the risk of being accused of using sissy French words, Filet Mignon, done right, beats bacon handily.
Flame away.
I'd say ANY quality steak is fuller and richer than bacon. (And it's even better when you ADD bacon...)
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I've never heard of anyone trying to improve bacon by wrapping a steak around it.
That might be worth a try...
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Maybe a sandwich consisting of layers of bacon slices alternated with bacon thickness steak slices?
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Is there a meat better than bacon?
ROAST BEEF!
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At the risk of being accused of using sissy French words, Filet Mignon, done right, beats bacon handily.
Flame away.
I had bacon wrapped filet mignon a couple of days ago.
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Shouldn't you be busy breaking your daughter's other arm, Chris?
No, the whining from one broken arm is enough.
Chris
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ROAST BEEF!
Arby's now makes roast beef and bacon sandwiches....now I have to go get some....and the closest one is 45 minutes away.... :(
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Thinly-sliced chargrilled chicken, for me. At least, on the same level as bacon, though not a replacement. Maybe crab leg meat.
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crab meat is to seafood what bacon is to meat.
Also, next payday I am having a brenner and beer night. I have earned it.
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What is a brenner?
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What is a brenner?
Why do we keep this guy around?
Breakfast for dinner. Duh. ;/
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Is there any meat better than bacon?
Yes.
Bacon.
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Perhaps we should just slow roast a whole slab of bacon, carve into steak sized chunks, and be done with it?
Bacon steaks. I vote for bacon steaks.
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Perhaps we should just slow roast a whole slab of bacon, carve into steak sized chunks, and be done with it?
Bacon steaks. I vote for bacon steaks.
Actually, I've done that. Grilled over hickory coals it's kind of hard to beat.
I don't have it cut up like that very often though, while certainly not a waste I like sliced bacon too much for breakfast to use up a whole slab that way on a regular basis.
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Trader Joes and The Meat House sell thinly sliced beef. It makes the best SOS I have ever had. Sautee it up and then proceed with your favorite SOS receipe. Enjoy it on toast or biscuits. A couple of rashers of bacon would only gild the lily but I'm willing to take that chance.
Russ
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Why do we keep this guy around?
Breakfast for dinner. Duh. ;/
It's not my fault you have your own language, Nell.
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Maybe a sandwich consisting of layers of bacon slices alternated with bacon thickness steak slices?
I am intrigued by your ideas and wish to subscribe to your newsletter come over for dinner.
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A really good steak.
Dinner at Prime Steakhouse in the Bellagio for the five of us was over $600 (and we didn't have any wine!) And it was the best steak I ever had. Beat the best bacon like a red-headed stepchild.
Also my Venison Shish-Ka-Bobs. Practically everyone who's tried them say that they are the best tasting meat they have ever eaten.
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I am not sure that I can beat one of my prime boneless ribeye steaks: salted with Lowry's, seared until charred and crusty on the outside and a warm pink center at 115 degrees.
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Spam.
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I will say the buffalo rib steak over charcoal I did a few years ago beats the figurative pants off of any bacon I've ever eaten. I got the meat from a local guy where I got to pick the buffalo, watch him pop it in the head, then come back in a week for the meat. I may have to do that again.
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"Burnt ends" from a good barbecued brisket comes pretty close to bacon. I wouldn't want to have to choose a winner...
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Spam.
SHUT UP!!! Bloody vikings... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8huXkSaL7o) :mad:
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Yes.
Prime Rib.
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So most of you would pick bacon over steak? ???
No, I would take a nice ribeye over bacon anyday.
That being said I had the worse bacon every on Easter for breakfast, I'm never buying Hormel Black Label again. Smelled like an old boar cooking it and it tasted as bad as it smelled.
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Why do we keep this guy around?
Breakfast for dinner. Duh. ;/
Never heard of Brenner either, we always called it Breakfast for Dinner.
I thought brenner was some sort of sausage. In Pella Iowa one of the Dutch butcher shops makes a beef balogna with bacon on the mix, tasty stuff.
http://www.ulrichsmeatmarket.com/products.php?crn=252&rn=101&action=show_detail
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What is a brenner?
Meal cooked by this guy?
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Spiessbraten (http://www.fastrecipes.com/recipe/august-goerg%27s-grilled-steak-%28spiessbraten-august-goerg%29-2009051722583/)
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Meal cooked by this guy?
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Yul never taste better.....
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