Smoked or Unsmoked Bacon ? (POLL)

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Your favourite Bacon

Smoked Bacon
5
26%
Unsmoked Bacon
14
74%
 
Total votes: 19

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Smoked or Unsmoked Bacon ? (POLL)

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Which do you prefer?

and for discussion....

What's your favourite type?

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We picked up smoked bacon last week by mistake, fried it up for tea. It was so very salty, and last night (it was a double pack), I grilled it instead. We ate the first lot with a bread bun, the second lot with veggies. I can still smell it through the house, despite open windows and have sprayed with a fresh air spray.

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I'll eat both types but definitely prefer unsmoked.
Smoked is ok occasionally,
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I prefer smoked ...but we tend to smoke our own so we can have it the way we like it.
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I prefer unsmoked thick cut back bacon. Smoked bacon just tastes too salty

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I'm with Barry - unsmoked, thick-cut back bacon, yum! If we're doing an 'American' brekkie I get streaky but still unsmoked. I have the odd recipe where smoked works better but I can't, for the life of me, think what they are! Fibro fog is winning today }hairout{
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I like any type of bacon, but prefer unsmoked. For flavour I don't think you can beat streaky.
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I based my unsmoked on the stuff we get from the shops and it doesn’t seem to matter if it is bought in plastic packs or from the fresh meat counter/butcher I detest the stuff that oozes white gunk when you cook it. Anyway the majority of the stuff from the supermarket is spoilt pig unsmoked back and it is my opinion that the unsmoked is tastier. HOWEVER, on one of my smaller ships on which I served Her Maj, we got bacon from a local chandler in Norway and the bacon came as a block, all cured the proper way and all that, brilliant, because it was delicious, we could cut it thick and the younger members of the ship’s company wouldn’t touch it because it wasn’t bright red and shiny like the bacon they get from the supermarket.
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I have always bought unsmoked, as it is slightly less processed. Sadly a rare treat these days as it's a dietary no-no for me! )gr:
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Interesting. I go from one to the other, have my little fads.

I think the white stuff in the pan is salted water which they put into it.
Same old thing, the more you pay, the less of that you get !!

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in the past I would have said unsmoked but one day I picked up the wrong pack by mistake and thoroughly enjoyed it )t'
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I will happily eat either but if I had to pick one I'd go for unsmoked )pg( )pg(
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Manda - do you have a smokery or a hole in the chimney thingy.

Love to see a picture.

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I am afraid I prefer smoked bacon and always buy this.
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I forgot to buy bacon this week! Even with a list, I can miss items, next week will be unsmoked!
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