{"id":49353,"date":"2015-01-24T15:40:48","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T22:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/24\/bacon.html"},"modified":"2015-01-24T15:40:48","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T22:40:48","slug":"bacon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/24\/bacon.html","title":{"rendered":"Bacon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we have an plenitude of bacon in the house (waves at Jim and Di and Stan and Mary), I tried out the technique in this video.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I messed up this video, actually, by putting too much water in at the beginning; I poured a lot out mid-way, pulling a goodly amount of rendered fat out, too. Still, the finished product was both moist and nicely crispy, so I&#39;ll give it a try again, maybe next weekend.<\/p>\n<p>(I&#39;m actually eclectic as far as my preferred &quot;style&quot; of bacon. I don&#39;t mind crispy. I don&#39;t mind chewy. Just &#8230; bacon.)<\/p>\n<p>We&#39;ve tried a variety of bacon cooking techniques here at the Consortium &#8212; pan-fried, oven-fried, microwaved. Oven seems to be the consensus favorite, and the throughput would certainly be better than this technique (unless you have a huge skillet), but all of the techniques work insofar as one thing goes: you end up with cooked bacon.<\/p>\n<p>Yum.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23bacon\">#bacon<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><iframe type='text\/html' width='100%' height='385' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2guC4Badq2s' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/Lpygw3E9L6c'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we have an plenitude of bacon in the house (waves at Jim and Di and Stan and Mary), I tried out the technique in this video. Well, I messed up this video, actually, by putting too much water in at the beginning; I poured a lot out mid-way, pulling a goodly amount of rendered &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/24\/bacon.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bacon!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[804],"class_list":["post-49353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","tag-bacon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132727,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/01\/the-president-is-clearly-dealing-with-the-wrong-challenges-facing-the-usa.html","url_meta":{"origin":49353,"position":0},"title":"The President is clearly dealing with the wrong challenges facing the USA!","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 1-Feb-17 3:35pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Like a historic low in our nation's Bacon Reserves! 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