Salty Bacon

Ticked

Fried bacon today and it was so salty it was inedible. I had washed it in cold water before frying. Has anyone a method to A) determine if bacon is salty before cooking, other than licking it, yuk, and removing the salt. Would blanching help?

Cotta

Have you tried putting pepper on it?

Ticked

Cotta wrote: »

Have you tried putting pepper on it?

If there's pepper in it, then I definitely wouldn't eat it!

Coolhandluke

Buy quality dry cured, really does make a difference, you get what you pay for.

Ticked

Coolhandluke wrote: »

Buy quality dry cured, really does make a difference, you get what you pay for.

Fair comment!

NiteRider

We had this problem too even with fairly good quality bacon. We found that soaking it in a bowl of cold water for an hour or so first worked

qwert_yuiop

Oh no we've been censored again

warmhands.coldheart

qwert_yuiop wrote: »

Oh no we've been censored again

??????????? Has someone taken offence to soaking Bacon???

Cotta

qwert_yuiop wrote: »

Oh no we've been censored again

We proved that we were unable to have a reasonable debate without insulting people of faith.

saverbuyer

I've made my own dry cured bacon a few times. Good results.

Marktheshark

A little shop near here still does the bacon slicer joint method.
Oh, it is Bacon to die for, it stays the same size in the pan and the taste is worth the extra 30p for 7 slices.