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[bohemianbanshee]

Note. People in Scotland, or maybe the UK in general, don't understand what "crispy bacon" is. Your bacon is just ham. It never gets crispy. Well-cooked ham is not crispy bacon. :P

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[bronzino]

Heh. Although I personally hate bacon, it's always been disgusting to me but that's unusual, most people love bacon!

However, it isn't ham because bacon is meat taken from the back, loin or belly of the pig while ham is meat cut from the thigh or rump of the pig.

The difference is that American bacon comes from the belly while British bacon is cut from the loin back of the pig. The preparation and curing (whether smoked or unsmoked) is similar, it's just that the cut is different.

The cut of meat that’s used for British bacon is the same cut as "pork tenderloin" or "loin roast".

[bohemianbanshee]

Okay, thanks for the info. It's definitely different than American bacon!

[bronzino]

There's Canadian bacon too which I think is different again but I'd need to look that one up.

[bronzino]

Canadian bacon is a leaner cut from the loin apparently.

I don't eat bacon but have you tried "streaky bacon"?

[0wls_do_cry]

Yeah, in Nz it's 'streaky bacon' too. But, I've always hated american bacon (burnt to death?) so I don't mind what's called 'bacon' here, as streaky bacon does actually get crispy enough to where it's not at all floppy, but is still tender and flavorful enough, which is perfect to me. I don't know why yours wouldn't get crispy enough? I usually have to ask my bf to not cook mine as much (if he's doing dinner) as he likes his the american way...

Canadian bacon quite is different to streaky bacon though (or so I've found), and I can understand contesting terming that as 'crispy bacon'.

[bohemianbanshee]

I guess it's just not what I think of as crispy. Not that I like my bacon super crispy anyway, it's just that a lot of recipes say things like "cook the bacon until it's crispy", which is pretty hard to do here, imo.