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Ah, bacon. Is there anything it can’t do? Add this to the incredible power of bacon: it’s the gateway meat for vegetarians!
[Johan Lundstrom] a scientist who runs a lab at the Monell Chemical Senses Center. He studies how the brain processes sensory information, like smell, for a living. He also told us he had an ex-girlfriend who became an ex-vegetarian once she tasted bacon.
Because bacon is one- to two-thirds fat and also has lots of protein, it speaks to our evolutionary quest for calories, Lundstrom says. And
since 90 percent of what we taste is really odor, bacon’s aggressive smell delivers a powerful hit to our sense of how good it will taste."There’s an intimate connection between odor and emotion, and odor and memory," Lundstrom says. "When you pair that with the social atmosphere of weekend breakfast and hunger, bacon is in the perfect position to take advantage of how the brain is wired."
See also: NeatoShop’s Bacon Store
And just one more bacon stuff to round out the theme … Behold, the bacon cabin by Caneyscud of Bradley Smoker forum: Link – via Bacon Today
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I don’t know the origin of this picture or the set of which it is a part, but it appears to show a man making a candle with bacon grease. Do you think that it would work?
Link via The Presurfer
Etsy seller Ann Parri made this scarf out of tasty bacon and eggs. Or yarn. One of the those two options. The bacon parts are curled to make them more realistic.
Link via The Agitator
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Just imagine Homer Simpson’s response to this brilliant tee shirt by John Sumrow, “mmm…infinite bacon.”
Link via Laughing Squid
Effervescent Bacon Drink Tabs – $3.45
Effervescent bacon drink tablets for when you need a little bacon, but there is none to be had. This is the perfect chaser to any bacon free holiday meal you are forced to endure. Now available at the NeatoShop!
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Someone had to do it sooner or later. It’s a new way to add delicious bacon to your holidays -bacon Pumpkin Pie!
In the spirit of fall here in the Pacific Northwest, here is a recipe of my friend Joe’s own design! He sought to bring bacon to the dessert menu, and hunted for a pie media capable of sustaining a bacon infusion while retaining deliciousness. Pumpkin (perhaps rhubarb) is the only one he could think of. I offer this recipe to all you bacon lovers out there.
Complete directions are at Allrecipes. Link -Thanks, Peter!
(Image credit: Sunny Byrd)
Jones Soda, the folks who brought you a turkey-flavored soft drink, is offering a limited run of bacon flavored soda. They’ve teamed up with J&D’s Foods to offer a gift pack featuring two bottles of soda with bacon popcorn and bacon gravy for $9.95 plus shipping. Bacon… where will it all end? Link to story. Link to product. -Thanks, Waldo (wherever you are)!
Move over, Lady Gaga, this guy had a meat suit back in 1894! In fact, he’d fit right in with the internet generation because he’s dressed as a side of bacon. Mmm… bacon. Link -via Buzzfeed
Artist Mike Lahue worked with a medium we relate to when he created a bust of actor Kevin Bacon made out of …bacon! A Seattle company that makes bacon products, J & D Foods, commissioned the sculpture.
Since owners Justin Esch and Dave Lefkow live by the motto “everything is better with bacon,” the duo — in partnership with bacon-crafting website What Do Bacon Do? — decided to commission an artist to make a life-size bust of Kevin Bacon entirely out of bacon.
Why, you ask?
Well, they ask, “Why not?”
Actually, there is a good reason. The bust is going up for sale on eBay this afternoon to benefit Ashley’s Team, a group that helps children with cancer and their families. Link -via Fark
(Image credit: J & D Foods)
Photo: Rich Marafioti (2009)
These bacon tattoos are so smokin’ hot that you can almost smell the sweet aroma of sizzling bacon. Almost.
Oddee has got the gallery of 12 Craziest Bacon Tattoos: Link | After that, be sure to visit the NeatoShop’s Bacon Store
A man burglarized a house in Redhill, Surrey, England Saturday and stole a telephone and a package of bacon. That’s all he took.
Det Con Knowles said: “This is a very peculiar burglary as the suspect placed a rasher of bacon over a door handle before leaving the property.
“The victims are at a loss to understand why someone would break in to their house and steal a packet of bacon and we are equally stumped as to who this potentially peckish suspect is.”
The telephone was recovered. The bacon is nowhere to be found. Can you imagine why anyone would steal wonderful, delicious bacon? Police have released this CCTV image of the suspect. Link -Thanks, Steve Piercy!
Not sure whether to file this under NEAT or AMA, but it’s so strange, I just had to post it. Oh, and if it makes you hungry for bacon, please visit our Neato Bacon Store!
Hat-tip to the always inspiring MissDestructo.
This morning I cooked a pound of bacon for breakfast. I’m glad I didn’t go with the sausage instead, because it was only later that I found out that today is International Bacon Day!
International Bacon Day or Bacon Day is an unofficial observance, often celebrated on the Saturday before US Labor Day (the first Monday of September). Some cultures, however, celebrate on December 30th, while others celebrate the day on the first Saturday in January after the new year.
Bacon day celebrations typically include social gatherings during which participants create and consume dishes containing bacon, including bacon-themed breakfasts, lunches, dinners, desserts, and drinks. Bacon Day gatherings may also include the consumption of soy bacon or turkey bacon.
How will you celebrate this auspicious occasion? Link -Thanks, Clarabelle!
Bacon mania is nothing new -bacon skates were in use in 1931!
So, yes, this photo was taken in November 1931 in Chehalis, Washington at the town’s Egg Festival. The occasion was a try to break the world record for largest omelette. Two women tied bacon to their feet and skated around the warming skillet to grease it. Then a team of chefs cracked and beat 7,200 eggs and made a breakfast delight.
See more pictures at The Atlantic. Link -via Everlasting Blort
(Image credit: The University of Washington Libraries)
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Bacon Platter – $19.45
Whaaat? You’re going to serve bacon, the most delicious thing on earth, on a plain dinner plate? Don’t be silly: you need the Bacon Platter from the NeatoShop. The ceramic serving plate even has raised edges so the oh-so-yummy bacon juice doesn’t dribble down wastefully on the table.
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Alex mentioned it briefly the other day, but I thought Matt Blum’s odyssey was worthy of another post a) in case you missed Alex’s and b) because you just can’t ever get enough bacon, right? Right!
So our friend over at GeekDad, Matt Blum, is on a mission which, in his words, means “trying anything and everything with bacon or bacon flavoring that I can lay my hands on. I will be trying the questionable bacon products as a public service, so you don’t have to.” To-date, he’s made and/or reviewed , Bacon Gumballs, a hamburger wrapped in ten strips of bacon, a hamburger ground entirely from bacon, and most recently: Fried chicken with a bacon crust.
Photo: Jen Blum
If you think about it, “bacon burger” is kind of a coy tease. Ground beef patty with a slice or two of bacon. Come on! A real bacon burger would be one made from ground bacon – but can that be done? Or is the bacon burger simply a figment of culinary imagination?
Thankfully, we don’t have to wonder anymore. Matt Blum of GeekDad did the experiment in his Great Bacon Odyssey:
I wanted to cook the burger under the broiler, as I did with the bacon-wrapped burger last week, on a rack set over a Pyrex dish to allow the rendered fat to drain. Having read about the difficulties people making such burgers have had keeping them together, I decided to add one large egg to the food processor along with the 19 slices of bacon. I ground the bacon and the egg together, then, using my hands, pulled the mixture out and used a hamburger press to make a burger. It is possible that my hands have been greasier at some point in my life, but if so I have (fortunately) forgotten it. I was not quite prepared for the raw burger to look like pure fat, and I must admit that it didn’t look very appealing. But it was for science, so I soldiered on!
Link (with video of Matt eating the bacon burger, of course!) – via Gorilla Mask
Of course, if you love bacon, we’ve got the goods for you: NeatoShop’s Bacon Store
Pork! It’s the meat of kings!
It’s made from pig, try it with onion rings.
Pork sure goes with everything, cause it’s made from swine, and swine sure tastes fine.
Just bring some to the picnic baby,
You know you wanna stuff it in my hamper
But please put it in some tupperware
Cause I don’t wanna be a porky chancer.
Let’s talk about pork
Converse about meat
Veggies get wedgies cause meat can’t be beat
Ham and bacon you should taste them
I know it’s surprising but it’s so appetizing!
I DARE you not to smile while you listen to the INSANELY catchy Pork Remix over at Weebl’s Stuff: Link – via I Heart Chaos
This would make the perfect theme music for our Bacon Store!
Bacon Air Freshener – $2.95
What could be better than the smell of sizzling bacon? (Indeed, a recent survey showed that people prefer the smell of bacon to a newborn baby) But getting that yummylicious smell for your personal enjoyment outside the house is kind of difficult. For whatever reason, the authorities frown upon us frying bacon while driving.
But for every problem, there is a solution. Behold the Bacon Air Freshener from the NeatoShop. Yes, that’s right: now you can enjoy the sweet smell of sizzling bacon in your car, in the gym … anywhere.
Link | Visit the NeatoShop’s Bacon Store for more bacon-y goodness
Love bacon? Who doesn’t? But do you love bacon enough to go to Camp Bacon, where the who’s who of the bacon world (let’s call ‘em bacon barons) meet:
Camp Bacon was to be a one-day Davos of cured and/or smoked pork. Many luminaries of the bacon world, plus new, rising stars, would be here: Allan Benton, the humble Tennessean whose pork bellies have made chefs swoon from New York to Napa; Herb Eckhouse, whose La Quercia pancetta and prosciutto from Iowa stand up to the best from Italy; and Nick Spencer, a Brit based in Chicago who began making back bacon this spring. Bacon poetry readings and a performance by 73-year-old R&B artist Andre Williams, who wrote a song called "Bacon Fat" in 1956, would help define the meat’s cultural impact.
"It’s a thinking person’s bacon camp," said Ari Weinzweig, co-founder of Ann Arbor’s gourmet mecca Zingerman’s, which hosted the event. "I want to get people off the ‘I love bacon’ thing: ‘Give me any and give me more.’ I want them to know the differences between them and how to use them."
Jane Black of The Washington Post has the delicious story: Link
And of course, I have to point out our own Bacon Store over at the NeatoShop.
Now this is the way to start a Monday! Has anyone here ever tried bacon pancakes made like this? Link
Here’s a combination of memes I don’t think we’ve seen before: Star Wars and bacon.
The Bacon AT-AT was actually what I wanted to build before, but didn’t have enough time, so it seemed like the natural choice. The Bacon AT-AT stands 3 ft tall and is made with over 40 lbs of bacon. The body was made from foam, then the bacon was attached. This beast took 21 non-stop hours to build. If you’ve ever once thought to cook 40 lbs of bacon in your kitchen in one sitting, I can now personally advise against it.
Link -via The Zeray Gazette
A simple but elegant solution to a common household problem: you have raw bacon, but you have no frying pan with which to cook it. You do, however, have a machine gun. All you have to do is wrap the bacon in tin foil, tie it around the barrel of your Rheinmetall MG 3, and fire off about 150 rounds (250 if you like it crispy). Step-by-step pictures at the link.
Link via Say Uncle | Photo: redditor Oelund
It looks like a slab of bacon on a cutting board, but it’s actually a cake. Food artist Debbie Goard has a flickr stream filled with her amazing work, including cakes that look just like a can of Spam, a steak, and a beer keg.
Link via Albotas | Artist’s Website (warning: self-starting sound) | Previously on Neatorama: Hello Kitty Zombie Cake, Yoda Cake
Boing Boing Video clip on YouTube
I’ve always been fascinated by thermal lance since I saw it in the movies being used in safecracking (since then the Mythbusters have confirmed the plausibility but kinda sorta debunked its feasibility in a heist).
Theo Gray, whose book Theo Gray’s Mad Science: Experiments You Can Do At Home – But Probably Shouldn’t
From Theo’s highly entertaining Gray Matter column in Popular Science:
A thermal lance, typically made of iron instead of bacon, is used to cut up scrap metal and rescue people from collapsed buildings. It works by blowing pure oxygen gas through a pipe packed with iron and magnesium rods. These metals are surprisingly flammable in pure oxygen, releasing a huge amount of heat as they are consumed. The result is a jet of superheated iron plasma coming out of the end of the pipe. For sheer destructive force, few tools match a thermal lance. But iron isn’t the only thing that’s flammable in a stream of pure oxygen.
Bacon is fattening because it contains a lot of chemical energy tied up in its proteins, and especially in its fat. You can release that energy either by digesting it or by burning it with a healthy supply of oxygen. The challenge isn’t creating the heat; it’s engineering a bacon structure strong enough to withstand the stress of a 5,000°F bacon plasma flame.
Bacon, is there anything it can’t do? Link
Like its name says, This is Why You’re Fat website is dedicated to chronicling the brave culinary concoctions guaranteed to give you a coronary by day’s end. I think I’ve gained a few pounds just looking at the photos, and therefore can’t wait to show my latest find: the Bacon Cheese Turtleburgers!
Details at Interwebs Randomness and Other Inspiring Tales – via This is Why You’re Fat
Today is a sad day for enterprising cooks, for the greatest possible food has now been invented. What could possibly surpass this invention by Smoking Meat Forums user Fire it up?
Link via Geekologie
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