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On last night’s show Sean brought up “Bacon Freak”. I usually try not to do that for two reasons, one I hate talking bad about people even if I don’t like them, and two I hate promoting his crappy bacon and website. I am sure if you read this blog a lot you will know why there is bad blood between me and Racco (owner of BF). If not the long story shorts is, he stole my content and he sells really bad bacon. He’s a sleazy sales man trying to cash in on peoples love of bacon.
A lot of fellow bacon lovers agree with me. Every time I write something about this I get emails and tweets of support. Sadly, there usually from people that got suckered in by his crappy blog to buy something form his store or fellow bloggers whose content was stolen.
Knowing this I could NEVER support anything Bacon Freak does. I have come to the conclusion that any website that supports Bacon Freak is a Bacon Fake.
I am not going to mention any names in this post but if you go to a bacon blog and see an ad for them email the author and tell them they lost your respect and that they should remove it. We need to make sure the bacon community only supports that best bacon products. Instead of buying bacon from a site like Bacon Freak buy it from companies that support real farmers and sell great products.
Check out my links page for places to buy great bacon online.
We also talked about Segways and reviewed more bacon from Burger’s Smokehouse. If you not into watching rants I would skip the first half of the show. Enjoy Bacon!

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Baconfest Chicago is a full day celebration of bacon: a Fest to end all Fests. Baconfest’s roster of bacon-inspired activities, bacon-foods, and bacon-spirits comprise the greatest single culinary and cultural festival ever dedicated to Bacon and Bacon only.
We’ve seen many other Baconfests and even attended a Baconcamp but Baconfest Chicago (April 10, 2010) aims to be the coup de grâce to all other festivals of bacon. How will it achieve the ultimate in baconawesomeness? Start with Baconfest Chicago’s location – the luxurious Stan Mansion. Bacon has finally found a facility worthy of its greatness. Next, take the price tag of $45 that gets you a 12-course bacon-enriched meal prepared by 24 exhibiting chefs from posh Chicago restaurants. Whew! I’m getting hungry just writing this article.
But wait, there’s more (that’s right I went there). The festivities for Baconfest Chicago also include:

An amateur bacon cook-off sponsored by Nueske’s
A bacon poetry competition
A Bacon Expo where you can meet artisan bacon-makers and bacontrepreneurs and sample a wide spectrum of local craft bacons and bacon-related products.
The Bacon Café, Bar & Cocktail Lounge, local restaurants will serve bacon-based snacks; local bakeries will concoct bacon-sweets; local bars will serve up bacon cocktails and refreshing beer.
On stage local artists, poets, musicians and theater-makers will join with bacon experts from all around the region during the Bacon Cultural Explosion.
And to top it all off, the Golden Rashers, the Oscars of the bacon world, presented to the winners of the Pro & Amateur Bacon Cook-offs, as well as a bevy of other prize categories.

Okay people. You love bacon. Chicago is a major airport hub. You bought your tickets right?
If you do attend Baconfest Chicago, please send us any photos, videos, or stories you’d like to share with the bacon-loving world. We’ll be glad to post them.

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Ordered fresh to go from the "Daily Experiments" menu at Seattle's legendary Lunchbox Laboratory:

→ Hot Head: 1/2 pound Super Beef (grassfed Ribeye/Sirloin/Prime Rib) patty, Pepperjack Cheese, 7 pieces of Maple Bacon and Jalapeno Ranch sauce on an organic Essential Baking Company kaiser roll.

Wendy’s has introduced a new bacon burger. This time it’s the Bacon & Blue. Our question to you is — what do you think? We want your reviews!
The basic details are:

North American beef that’s never frozen
Blue cheese crumbles
Thick cut applewood smoked bacon
Sauteed onions
Steakhouse sauce

We’ll be doing a review of this burger soon, but before we do we want to hear what you think. Let us know!

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or a close approximation. . .

couldn't afford sausages :(

The guy that brought us that ridiculously viral song “Hover Bacon” has created what he calls a great human achievement, a bacon rocket.
We made a bacon rocket! Rocket Science and Bacon Science, 2 disciplines at the pinnacle of human achievement, finally united!

There are two things I love about this video

The song in the background.
The smoke alarm that kicks in at the end of the video.

This is a great advancement for bacon and I think the next step would be to use bacon for brain surgery. But something tells me that wouldn’t be a funny video to watch, so maybe we should just stick with rockets.

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Bottle of Wild Turkey + 100 pieces of Bacon + 8 Cinnamon Rolls = Wild Turbacon Roll

Start your day off right!

My friend Ron from Lush Angeles was visiting Portland this weekend and crashed at my place. When Ron and I are in a kitchen together it’s a sure bet that things are going to get fried. After a dinner of delicious karaage, General Tso’s kitchen, and fried mushrooms, we were looking at a big wok full of fry oil and wondering what to do next. The Girl Scout’s Tagalongs we’d bought that afternoon were about to meet an unexpected fate…

Inspired by the tastiness of our initial experiment, we decided to have a Girl Scout Cookie fry off the next day. Fueled only by bourbon and our love of crispy battered things, we put four different cookies to the test, frying them up and finishing them with a sprinkling of sea salt.

Consensus favorites of our tasting panel were the Do Si Do (below) and Dulce de Leche, both of which had the perfect texture for frying. Thin Mints are pretty much a waste and destroy the clarity of the oil. Tagalongs are also potentially messy, but the peanut butter inside is deliciously gooey when they’re fresh from the fryer. The ones photographed at the top of the post actually have pieces of bacon embedded in the batter, creating a dangerous combination of chocolate, bacon, and peanut butter.

Unsurprisingly there’s at least one State Fair booth that beat us to this. They also favor the Do Si Do:
The gals at the Fried What! stand on Main Street seem to come up with a new deep-fried item each year. This year, they’re cooking Girl Scout cookies in oil. A Do-si-do, aka Peanut Butter Sandwich, is dipped in batter, fried till golden brown, sprinkled with powdered sugar (and chocolate syrup if desired) and served four to an order for $3.50. They’ll be available only until the stand’s cookie supply runs out.
I mentioned we had bacon. Of course we couldn’t resist battering and frying that too.

All photos by Ron, whose blog will soon be covering Los Angeles’ emerging cocktail culture.

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Archie McPhee's Mr. Bacon coin purses are sizzlin' hot. Perfect for loose change, bus transfers, or Bac-o-bits!

Since its Music Monday I couldn’t let this opportunity pass me by to share this with you all. At this year’s Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival they started the event off with the National Anthem sung by an Elvis impersonator.
When he came out the first thought they came to mind was,”Wow, this could get offensive”. Some people don’t think it’s funny to make a joke out of our National Anthem (but I would be ok with it). Once the guy started singing I was shocked, this guy could really sing!

It was a great way to start an event to celebrate bacon. I am not sure who’s idea it was or where he came from, but I like it. And I am glad someone got it up on YouTube so everyone else could see it.
This is going to be my last post about the Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival for awhile or until they have more details to share about next year’s event. Elvis has just left the building.

The folks that brought you hover bacon have done it again. In the name of science and love of bacon, they have sought to answer once and for all the question that’s been plaguing the world for so long…
Can a rocket be made of bacon?
You know you’ve always wanted to know the answer. The Rather Good team provides the proof.