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Turkey bacon is gross
shmokes:
--- Quote from: Dartful Dodger on July 14, 2008, 02:39:11 pm ---
Frying bacon defeats the health reasons for me using turkey bacon.
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Nonsense. You fry it in a pan. Remove from pan onto a paper-towel covered plate. Press a paper towel on top of the bacon, i.e., the bacon is squeezed between two paper towels. The majority of the grease is still in the pan. Most of what's left is absorbed in the paper towels.
Maybe you've got some kind of cooking mechanism that elevates the bacon, so the grease drips off while it's cooked, but it's not that big a difference. Anyway, turkey bacon has like 70% less fat than pork bacon. You could fry it and then drink the grease left in the pan and you'd still get way less fat than you get from pork bacon.
--- Quote from: shardian on July 14, 2008, 01:31:06 pm ---My house is always filled with smoke when cooking bacon on the stove. That never happened with the microwave
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Fats, animal or vegetable, do not smoke unless burned. Stop cooking your bacon on high. It should be cooked on medium (and take the pan right off the heat once there's no bacon in it). Bacon fat has a lower smoke point than olive or vegetable oil. Keep the temperature down and you'll have tastier bacon with no smoke whatsoever. This applies to Dartful too, since he has to clean the ceiling off after frying bacon. Lower heat means less splattering.
hypernova:
--- Quote from: shardian on July 14, 2008, 01:31:06 pm ---My house is always filled with smoke when cooking bacon on the stove. That never happened with the microwave
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So turn on your exhaust fan, silly.
shardian:
--- Quote from: hypernova on July 16, 2008, 05:23:03 pm ---
--- Quote from: shardian on July 14, 2008, 01:31:06 pm ---My house is always filled with smoke when cooking bacon on the stove. That never happened with the microwave
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So turn on your exhaust fan, silly.
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If I had one, that would be ideal. ;)
I have a microwave/vent combo in the garage, but it requires substantial cabinet modification. It's on the honey-do list.
Malenko:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on July 14, 2008, 02:14:18 pm ---
Turkey bacon and ham? I don't get it... what part of the turkey is the pig?
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as much as I hate agreeing with chad......
truer words were never spoken.
shmokes:
Try turkey ham some time. It looks, smells, feels and tastes almost exactly like normal ham. If someone served it to you and you didn't know it was turkey ham you would not think it was strange in the slightest; you'd just think you were eating ham. And it's a lot healthier than real ham.
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