I don't cook bacon as often as I'd like

[conuly]

mostly because I hate the grease getting on my glasses, but also because I find the cooking time for bacon to be weirdly finicky? IDK.

But when I do cook it, and it all goes right, I suddenly remember how much I freaking love bacon.

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Comments

[dine]

I love bacon, but never cook it at home - because I'd cook and eat the entire package at one go. but if I'm eating out, my meals will most often include bacon in some way

[conuly]

Wait, is it wrong to cook and eat the entire package at once?

[dine]

well, not ethically wrong exactly, but definitely frowned upon by my doctor

[conuly]

Oh, just throw an apple and your doctor will keep away.

[dine]

ha! ok, that made me LOL (and scare Olivier)

[oursin]

Just seeing that headline about 'In the 1950s, less than 10% of families with children were single-parent' I was going 'stigmatisation of unmarried mothers, lack of support for them if they kept the child, massive pressure to give baby up for adoption or have it concealed as mom's change of life child...' even before any looking at divorce stats. Duh.

[conuly]

Well, yeah.

[fred_mouse]

Also forced adoption

[jo]

Cooking bacon in the oven avoids all the splatter mess.

[ancarett]

I was coming here to say that. I set the timer on my phone as well as the oven do I don't miss it.

[conuly]

It's easier to clean grease off my glasses than the oven, though.

[thewayne]

I have changed the way I clean my glasses based on a recommendation from the person at the glasses store. I had to get my sunglasses straightened up while on my way to Phoenix, and asked her about a good glass cleaner. She was alone in the store, and said "I should sell you our product, but the best glasses cleaner is Dawn Foamy dish detergent!"

I've been using it since then, and it does an AMAZING job. And I'll bet it wouldn't have a problem with bacon grease since it's dish detergent.

[conuly]

I wouldn't use Dawn, in fact, because the perfumes they use make me sneeze. But yes, I do routinely use dishwashing soap to wash my glasses.

The trouble is drying them. I generally forget to keep a microfiber cloth downstairs, so I gotta trek to my room to get one.

[thewayne]

At least you know about the idea overall. ;-) The Dawn that I use is largely fragrance-free, it's possible different ones in different regions.  I always try to get FF products as my wife and I both have moderate to severe allergies and I frequently have hyperosmia hit me.

[cellio]

I keep a microfiber cloth in my pocket, always, because my glasses get smudgy many times over the course of the day and I don't want to use the hem of my shirt.

[conuly]

Ah, well, my jammies don't have pockets.

[mindstalk]

Dawn soap makes my sponges stink within a week. Palmolive, well, it's been 6 months and my sponges don't smell.

[adafrog]

Bacon rocks

[cellio]

I used to love bacon. Presumably still do, but don't eat it any more. When I did eat it, though, I figured that if I was going to make all that mess, I was going to cook the whole packet, which also saved me the trouble of storing the open unused portion safely.

The only problem with this was that I lived alone. But mmmm, bacon!