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I Bacon Safe To Eat Daily?

As I tend to think 'buy bacon' and grab anything up to 6 packets I stick it in the freezer, then when I want bacon it is usually still in there, so I take it out of the packet and put it in the frying pan (ever the optimist) but I then pour water over it and gently heat it up, turning it over and gradually freeing off each rasher. If it is boiled in a chunk it will stick together.
This was a memory of what my mother used to do with bacon not frozen - and her sisters did it too - scalding the bacon they called it. It not only defrosts it but if left for a minute or so once separated it removes a lot of the common salt, and should also remove the nitrates and nitrites as they are very soluble. I then tip the lot into a sieve. wipe the pan dry or it might spit boiling water at you, add back the bacon and cook as normal.
 
Resurgam said:
As I tend to think 'buy bacon' and grab anything up to 6 packets I stick it in the freezer, then when I want bacon it is usually still in there, so I take it out of the packet and put it in the frying pan (ever the optimist) but I then pour water over it and gently heat it up, turning it over and gradually freeing off each rasher. If it is boiled in a chunk it will stick together.
This was a memory of what my mother used to do with bacon not frozen - and her sisters did it too - scalding the bacon they called it. It not only defrosts it but if left for a minute or so once separated it removes a lot of the common salt, and should also remove the nitrates and nitrites as they are very soluble. I then tip the lot into a sieve. wipe the pan dry or it might spit boiling water at you, add back the bacon and cook as normal.
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Or you could just take a pack out of the freezer the night before and put it in the fridge, then you don't have to use the whole pack at once.
 
Mr_Pot said:
Or you could just take a pack out of the freezer the night before and put it in the fridge, then you don't have to use the whole pack at once.
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That would involve planning and forethought - not my strongest suites, but the concept of left over bacon in the fridge - that is never going to happen in my watch.
 
Mr_Pot said:
The calculation is not really weird, going from 5 to 6 is about an 18% increase. However, as you say this is a relative risk and rather meaningless in deciding whether to eat processed meat or not.
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For me this is an obvious misdirection, both by using relative risk and just as startling 22 so called experts, over 800 studies were realistically able to show a true potential increase of 1.8%, (again if you believe it (too many confounders as far as I am concerned)) - I think this is crystal clear that the sensationalism card was and is being used to scare the general public and headline grab.
 
You will prise my bacon out of my cold, dead...............oh, hang on...........
 
lucylocket61 said:
thank you all.

I take the point about having one rasher of the good stuff v more of the not so good stuff and will do some sums.

I had a couple of non-cancerous polyps removed after a colorectal investigation two years ago, and at that point had hardly eaten bacon or red meat during my lifetime.
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lucylocket61, the tendency to form polyps is usually inherited and IMHO, diet only has a small effect (although eating foods high in fibre does help reduce it slightly). The risk does increase with age (usually over 50).

I've never eaten much bacon or red meat until I started low carb recently but I form polyps often. I'm high risk for colon cancer because my mom got it (stage 3 at age 81, 2 years of chemo, now age 90 & over 5 years in remission) and I form the rare but extremely dangerous kind of polyps that always become cancerous over time. I had the upper 1/2 of my colon removed 1 1/2 years ago because I had 2 rare dangerous ones which they had tried to remove unsuccessfully 5 times through colonscopy and were very aggressive and kept growing back and into the bowel wall. (Same surgery as my mom had without cancer and chemo.) My daughter age 31 also forms polyps (which is very young, she had an early colonscopy because of the family history.)

I've been undergoing genetic testing at a Familial Colon Cancer clinic - still awaiting results for the last set of genes. The doctors believe our family has genes that predispose us to forming these rare dangerous polyps and colon cancer.

IMO, bacon isn't going to make much difference.
 
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Breakfast tomorrow Bacon eggs sausage tomato mushrooms oh and black pudding same as every Saturday morning for several months now. Some times I use some carbs from my alloted daily allowance and have a slice of fried bread as well.:)
 
Hate to sound flippant but isn't just being alive have it risks?. I guess a person could worry themselves to death about food but there is always some food out there we have to stop eating because it causes... THIS THIS THIS. Off soon to make bacon and eggs,:hilarious::playful:
 
Tipetoo said:
My eggs are cage eggs as well.

Not to many free range pigs here in Australia either, but here's a link to big ol' razorback that was shot a ouple of years back.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2014-06-03/sach-big-feral-pig-0306/5496794
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Tipetoo said:
My eggs are cage eggs as well.

Not to many free range pigs here in Australia either, but here's a link to big ol' razorback that was shot a ouple of years back.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2014-06-03/sach-big-feral-pig-0306/5496794
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@Tipetoo Speaking about caged eggs, i do however get free range, simple because, many many years ago we were living not far from a hen factory and i had my mother-in-law over for dinner one night and the menu was "you guessed it' chicken, and she said "this chook even tastes hysterical":hilarious:. I have never forgotten that so try and buy free range chicken as well. When the kids were young we couldn't afford to do that but these days we can be a little more extravagant :playful:. Oh the things that stay in your mind.:singing:
 
lucylocket61 said:
cheap is all i can afford, so it looks like the bacon is off the menu.
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lucylocket61 said:
I take the point about having one rasher of the good stuff v more of the not so good stuff and will do some sums.
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I bought some of the cheap bacon from a 'freezer food' store a couple of weeks ago and won't be doing that again.
I find that decent bacon from a local butchers is quite cheap, probably cheaper than packaged bacon from a supermarket. But I did buy some reduced price supermarket bacon and put it in the freezer.
I don't eat bacon every day, but sometimes when I have defrosted a pack I will have it for breakfast every day that week.
 
Local butcher used to do double cured bacon to his own recipe of which he would cut rashers off a block for you to what thickness you preferred tasted fantastic. Unfortunately he retired and the new guy doesn't do it. :(
 
Sometimes difficult to find a butcher who cures their own ham and bacon. Too easy to buy it from a wholesaler.
 
Hi well I cannot tolerate carbohydrates in a morning so I eat 3 rashers of streaky bacon each morning and coffee with cream. I know boring.
 
I find Lidl bacon very Good, the better one and not the savers one. Several people keep hens so no shortage of free range eggs. I have an omelette most mornings.
 
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