Traditional British Breakfast Fare Ingredients

[karadekoolaid]

I found this photo of mine which shows back bacon

All the bacon I found in the US , when I was last there, seemed different from British bacon. I just wonder whether it's different butchering criteria? Finding really thin, streaky bacon was not so easy because most of the cuts were thick, and I like my bacon thin and crispy. There is, however, much more "meat"on British bacon, IMHO.

 

[Barriehie]

There's thin ones; just have to buy cheap! Streaky bacon is so costly I haven't bought that in several years. I don't eat bacon as it's own part of a dish anymore. I season with smoked meats that mostly aren't bacon and if it is it's jowl bacon.

 

[badjak]

I used to make my own bacon.
Not that difficult. Gotta do it again.
One thing I found is that (I am generalising) Northern Europeans cold smoke their bacon and Americans warm or hot smoke theirs.
Also Europe would mainly use beech

 

[TastyReuben]

Finding really thin, streaky bacon was not so easy because most of the cuts were thick, and I like my bacon thin and crispy.

There's thin ones; just have to buy cheap!

I was just about to say that - by the cheapest streaky bacon on offer, and it’ll be so thin, it’s almost hard to separate it from the rest of the bacon.