Bacon/Added Water. Rant.....

[love machine]

I don't usually get the shopping, today the cupboards were bare and I was as hungry as a wild bear. I thought, BLT. 2 nice fresh bread rolls, fresh flat lettuce, a couple of nice flavoured tom's and some Bacon.

What bacon could I get since the butchers shop was closed?

I looked at the choice available and I couldn't find one which said

"Ingredients:- 100% Pig".

I got the one with maximum pig and went home to crack on. 5 sheets of the best bacon (I could find) and it was grilling time.

THE BLOODY GRILL PAN FILLED UP WITH WATER AND I WASTED ABOUT 10 MINUTES EVAPORATING BLOODY WATER!!!!!

Can I not get bacon without added polyphosphates (so that it can absorb more water) and bloody water. I personally don't want some er at the bacon factory deciding that I need a succulent, soft, tender piece of water-bacon. I want the stuff crispy. If I want water in my grill pan, I will put it there myself.

Please, please, please mr supermarket, can someone give me slices of pig, without all the added water and stuff which makes it capable of retaining more water.

Chatting to my trading standards man, there are actually regulations regarding adding water to meat. I'm well pissed off. I allready pay my water rates for water and I have more than enough without people selling it to me in other, discreet ways.

I'm pissed off and I think it's a joke we should put up with this shit.

Jeez, I'm sounding like my Dad!

[sparkythecat]

In my local Safeway store, the refridgerated fresh meat counter has as in built sprinkler system that periodically 'mists' the meat on display....including bacon.


FFS

[minimax]

sparkythecat said:

In my local Safeway store, the refridgerated fresh meat counter has as in built sprinkler system that periodically 'mists' the meat on display....including bacon. FFS

when I worked in a bacon factory (only for two weeks ) they used to put all the meat through a machine that injected it with saline solution in order to sell it for more than it actually was. this is standard practice!

[Balmoral Green]

If its pre-packed supermarket bacon, you need to buy the best smoked dry cured they have available, otherwise just go to a proper pork butcher. I hate all that water and scum that looks like fried seminal fluid that comes (no pun intended) out of cheap bacon.

[zetec]

I had the pleasure of cooking bacon from a Spanish supermarket a few weeks ago. It would have been safer and easier for me to wring out a wet dishcloth over the frying pan. The amount of water in the bacon made the oil spit and pop so much, I had to stand back and approach behind a teatowel!!

[C C]

Check out the good old CO-OP for better labelling and less extras in the meat.

[simpo two]

Head for a good butcher.

[Wacky Racer]

simpo two said:

Head for a good butcher.

"I say Ashley, get that customer some of our best Danish, I said get that customer some of our best Danish".........

[chrisgr31]

I had the pleasure of cooking bacon from the local farmers market for my breakfast this morning. Lovely thick rashers with a rind that went crispy. No water but lots of fat!

However it tasted gorgeous!

[alextgreen]

If there's a proper butcher in Uxbridge I'm yet to find one.

I miss real sausages too

[Dr Strangelove]

I used to put up with soaking soggy bacon, until I decided to stop buying that Danish rubbish, Now I just spend a little bit more on British Bacon. Problem solved.

[glocko]

love machine said:

fresh flat lettuce

NO NO NO!!!
For the best BLT it HAS to be crispy Iceberg lettuce, sliced fresh plum toms, some dijon mayo on some warm ciabatta. Yum Yum!!!
By the way, you know I'm only replying to this so I can plug my local prize winning butcher!!!
www.muffsonline.co.uk/ Narf Narf!!!

[Mikey G]

glocko said:

By the way, you know I'm only replying to this so I can plug my local prize winning butcher!!! www.muffsonline.co.uk/ Narf Narf!!!

Flippinekk! didnt realise you could get so many types off sausage, my mouth is seriously watering

off goes mike to make a sausage sarnie

[condor]

If you microwave bacon for 1 minute on Hi...the watery solution will be forced out....then grill or fry properly

[cotty]

Mikey G said:

Flippinekk! didnt realise you could get so many types off sausage, my mouth is seriously watering

quite fancy some
Chicken & Black Pudding Sausages
or
Lamb & Mint Sausages
or
Beef & Horseradish Sausage

I could go on and on I love sausages

[cotty]

dont let Ted near here
www.muffsonline.co.uk/pies.htm

[Don]

cotty said:

I could go on and on I love sausages

The test of any culture is the quality of its sausages.

No sausages or too many crap ones and this indicates that the country need not be visited.

[love machine]

glocko said:

love machine said: fresh flat lettuce NO NO NO!!! For the best BLT it HAS to be crispy Iceberg lettuce, sliced fresh plum toms, some dijon mayo on some warm ciabatta. Yum Yum!!! By the way, you know I'm only replying to this so I can plug my local prize winning butcher!!! www.muffsonline.co.uk/ Narf Narf!!!

No NO NOOOOO!! Iceberg is tasteless crap. A good butterhead is the way to go, freshly picked. I am so specific about my lettuce, I grow my own! Iceberg is to lettuce what water is to bacon.

[thepeoplespal]

You need to go to a proper local butcher. My local butcher www.farmsteadmeats.co.uk/ has amazing bacon from rare breeds like Gloucester Old Spot and Tamworth without the water.

Its well worth any extra they may charge as you pay for the meat and not the water.

[v8 westy]

muffs online- supermarket bacon is complete crap! find a decent butcher, this chap does some excellent cheese, the cragdale is just superb! www.derekpriestley.com