Whoa. Just imagine the applications this could bring. Bacon quilt anyone? Pic via reddit.
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December 17th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
Wow. That is a very efective way to maximize your bacon to sammich ratio. My heart is struggling just looking at that.
December 17th, 2007 at 8:42 pm
OMG I’m in love!!!!!!!
December 18th, 2007 at 12:14 pm
I’m a new blogger - part of a new Ottawa group blog, so I’m cruising around checking out the other Ottawa blogs. I love this site. It’s so yummy and totally original. Our group and your group should get together for brunch some time. Call us!
December 19th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
Awesome!!!
December 20th, 2007 at 2:44 am
Yum… That is amazing-looking. I need bacon now.
December 23rd, 2007 at 5:55 pm
Next time I get a bacon craving I’ll have to do the basketweave.
January 11th, 2008 at 2:26 am
That is completely inspiring – I’d would say that it’s it would be perfect over scrambled eggs on a base of fired bread.
I’ll have to ‘troop trial’ it over the weekend
January 16th, 2008 at 5:56 am
It’s like looking into the eye of God
January 25th, 2008 at 8:10 am
This is OLD NEWS. Bacon weaving has been around for ages and the idea is NOT worthy of a repeat.
As an unemployed PROFESSIONAL CHEF educated in Brooklyn at Peter Kump’s Culinary Institute (now living in Clearwater), I find the whole idea rather juvenile.
I have been posting on the internet for 15 years giving people advice and criticizing fakes like Sandra Lee and Giada on FN. I hate to see bandwidth wasted.
January 25th, 2008 at 10:52 am
Looks good to me and will be great with BLT this summer.
(And this ChiffOnade needs to get a job. Oh, but maybe there is a reason he is unemployed.)
January 25th, 2008 at 11:35 am
Old or new, I love this idea.
January 25th, 2008 at 11:52 am
Wow Chiffonade! Such anger - and over something as funny and silly as bacon. I would have to vote that highly negative and unproductive comments are a true waste of time and bandwidth.
January 25th, 2008 at 11:58 am
Quote from above - - - This is OLD NEWS. Bacon weaving has been around for ages and the idea is NOT worthy of a repeat.
As an unemployed PROFESSIONAL CHEF educated in Brooklyn at Peter Kump’s Culinary Institute (now living in Clearwater), I find the whole idea rather juvenile.
I have been posting on the internet for 15 years giving people advice and criticizing fakes like Sandra Lee and Giada on FN. I hate to see bandwidth wasted.”
Hey, it’s new to us so don’t sound like your mom. Save bandwidth by only posting your positive thoughts. I bet that would reduce you post size considerable.
January 25th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Am I missing something with the whole “bandwith wasted” comment? Was it ironic? Because it just came out sounding UNBELIEVABLY pompous and holier-than-thou. Who the hell died and made this guy king of validity?
Awesome bacon activities - keep it up.
January 25th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
I think you’re rather juvenile Chiifonade and very annoying.
I could have done without your rambling on this post but it does explain why you’re unemployed!
January 25th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Hey ChiffOnade, perhaps you are an unemployed PROFESSIONAL CHEF because you have completely lost your joy of food. Perhaps bacon weaving isn’t new, but most food isn’t. Cooking and eating is about JOY. Go have some fun.
January 25th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
My grandfather was a professional chef. He immigrated to the US from France and had plenty of credit to his name prior to his passing. As much as you find the idea juvenile, getting people to go outside the Macaroni and Cheese box shouldn’t be something you insult.
I am not particularly fond of Sandra Lee, kind of like Giada on FN. Wonder how you feel about Rachel Ray or Alton Brown?
Food is both art and chemistry. If people don’t learn and experiment, then where do we go? They can’t always eat high class meals prepared for them by the best chefs. Being a purist and doing everything in only the way you see fit, will result in having fewer people in the kitchen. There is a place for both kinds of cooking. I’m disappointed you don’t have more respect for food and people than that.
January 25th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
amazing! so so impressed!
January 25th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Hey, chiffOnade! Lighten up. The bacon weave is mucho cool. In the days when I was ingesting bacon (only the best from small artisan bacon shop — for real) I never thought of doing this. The husband and boy child still ingest it and I’m thinking this might be a really crazy thing to do for them one Sunday a.m. Question: Do you do it on a rack and bake it the oven?
January 25th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
FIRST, I am a FEMALE, thank you very much. I happen to have an internationally-famous website on MySpace (realchiffonade) and I am the owner and operator of the CassandraCrossing website.
Finally, I am a SENIOR ADVISOR on Ed Levine’s SeriousEats website. So, I don’t need any extra grief for pointing out a simple fact.
Thank you,
realchiffonade@gmail.com
January 25th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
Wow, it’s a good ‘ol fashioned flame war here on Breakfast Blogger.
Judith: I have no clue how it is done. It was just an image someone submitted on reddit, with no context or anything to back it up.
January 25th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
I love the facial expression, like he just started eating someone else’s portion of the weave and got caught. It’s worth it!
A delicious idea, even if it’s been around the block, is always worth repeating for new and seasoned audiences alike.
January 26th, 2008 at 2:34 am
Bacon is cool. Btw, It’s 2am , I’m reading comments about bacon slices and I feel a tad ridiculous. I would have never thought that people could bash about something as dumb as bacon! And by the way chiffon, the fact that you are operating websites that talk about food have absolutly nothing to do with the fact that your first comment was completly irrelevent. Anyway, you made me laugh and I’m happy to see that other people have spotted your first message and reacted to it. Come on! Beacon weave!
January 26th, 2008 at 10:32 am
Love the baconweave. Is this fried in Crisco. At my age I can eat anything I want. When I was 10 I would eat a pound of crisp bacon and my mother thought it was wonderful. “Look, she likes it!” Am going to try this on my 75 year old friends. Keep up the delights of living.
January 26th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Oh puhlez c-O-n - an internationally famous Myspace site? BWHAHAHAHA
Go open a restaurant somewhere please. You need something to do.
Watch out for post by ‘her’ other ‘names’ like: “MrsDocChuck”, “MrsDocChick”, “chiff0nade”, “realchiffonade”, “JanelleHouse”, “SonnyinHouston” and dozens of other screen names.
BB - this is a nice site. Keep up the good work and thank you.
January 26th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
Here is nice information about who is Mrs or MR realshiffonade:
http://weblogawards.proboards85.com/index.cgi?board=2007pollchanges&action=print&thread=1194413404
Google: Realshoffonade
January 26th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
i caught this on tastespotting, and in all fun, this has had to be the least appetizing archive i’ve seen so far :P
January 26th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Hey Miky, thanks for that- I did a google and saw the nonsense coming from those user names. Not much we can do except not feed the trolls.
Amie, sorry if this blog doesn’t appeal to you.
Linda Lea- I’m not sure if this is fried or not…
And thanks everyone else for the nice comments!
January 26th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
My daughter wants to know if you can weave her a bacon quilt…Good for those late night college munchies :o)
January 26th, 2008 at 11:51 pm
You totally pwnd the Amish right there.
January 27th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
[…] 27, 2008 · No Comments I am so lucky to have friends that love food as much as I do, and I think some of our best eventsare the brunch parties we have semi-frequently. Rather than going out, we do a brunch potluck, and it’s generally a huge success and we sit around talking about how amazing we are and how amazing the food is and we don’t feel rushed or limited in space and never ever limited in food. At our last one, Paige made the much-celebrated pancetta nests. Now, our brunches are never short on bacon, but a typical problem with bacon is that it’s hard to make sure that there is a good bacon:otherfood ratio. The bacon weave is one way of fixing this dilemma (eee! can’t wait to try this!) but the pancetta nests offer another solution. […]
January 28th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
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January 28th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
[…] In some other Breakfast Blogger news, the post I made back in December about the Bacon Weave, which I can’t take credit for, got noticed by TasteSpotting.com. This brought on quite the spike of traffic and comments on that entry, and some bacon related drama ensued. It is rather amusing, and I urge you to check it out: The Great Bacon Weave Drama of January 25. […]
January 28th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
Well, as a Dark Lord of the Baconic Arts I must congratulate you on this find. Yes, I’ve seen it before in various guises. One I particularly adore is when the weave is baked over an upturned bowl, making a lovely basket for the rest of your meal. When I say meal, I mean the lesser articles that usually accompany the bacon: eggs, toast, potatoes … that kind of thing.
Well done, drama aside. For more on the wonderful world of bacon, you really should visit the following thread dedicated to me and my love of the candy of meats. Mmmmmmmm. Bacon.
http://chroniclesofgeorge.nanc.com/board/viewtopic.php?p=314030#314030
January 29th, 2008 at 1:45 am
that looks so sinful!! Oh my…
January 29th, 2008 at 11:01 am
The person posting as “Chiffonade” is Charles Treuter (aka “DocChuck”). For some reason he has stalked her for years. She is actually a good cook and a very nice person.
January 29th, 2008 at 11:56 am
chiffOnade rocks!!!
January 29th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Remember kids, don’t feed the trolls!
January 29th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
No kidding. They’re like that annoying kid who rode on the bus with you in elementary. If you ignore them, they go get bored and leave you alone.
January 30th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Treuter is a troll alright. Very well known on food boards and blogs. His usual screen name is DocChuck. Except when he’s stalking someone. Then he usually assumes their screen name or real name. He almost always stalks women.
But, back to the bacon… I found that mightily impressive!! I’m actually going to try that this weekend if I can find some half decent tomatoes to BLT-it with.
January 30th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
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January 31st, 2008 at 2:43 am
Man,this guy’s sure has got lots of food and time to fix it good.
January 31st, 2008 at 9:33 am
Unless you can verify the above comments by “Elizabeth Anne”, “Van Gearhart”, etc. for their complete accuracy, you may want to be very careful of posting her (chiff0nade)’s comments.
chiff0nade’s website can be found here:
I suspect that you could be facing legal action by posting this neurotic person’s rantings.
January 31st, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Wow I love bacon sandwiches and that looks really lovely! In fact we had bacon for tea!
I wonder if I could knit spaghetti? :)
January 31st, 2008 at 3:15 pm
I feel dirty just looking at it…
I don’t know whether to eat it or worship it.
January 31st, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Trial trascripts are public records.
January 31st, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Remember kids, don’t feed the trolls!!
January 31st, 2008 at 5:45 pm
chiffOnade sucks
January 31st, 2008 at 6:59 pm
Sorry folks. My husband is a drooling idiot who often amuses himself by stalking women and posting on food blogs using their names. I will up his medication and see if it helps.
January 31st, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Well chiffOnade, I guess we all know why you’re unemployed don’t we?
January 31st, 2008 at 11:03 pm
yo mama got a bacon weave!
February 1st, 2008 at 2:05 am
Well this may be old hat to some but I haven’t ever seen it done before, so I think it is totally awesome. What a novel way to maximise the amount of bacon you can fit on your sandwich.
Wanda
February 1st, 2008 at 2:49 am
Umm… to the above: no one is fooled.
To all else: I am sooo tempted to make this, but since my stepdad is on a no-fat diet (for medical reasons, not vanity), I think it would be incredibly cruel. I shall have to find one of my non-vegetarian friends and make it at their house. Yum.
…the funny thing is, I don’t really love bacon. Maybe I shall try the same thing with pasta.
February 1st, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Bacon…is there anything it can’t do?
February 1st, 2008 at 4:03 pm
[…] What’s the optimum configuration to cover a sammich with bacon? A bacon weave, obviously. It’s the holy grail of bacondom. (HT: Breakfastblogger) […]
February 2nd, 2008 at 1:51 am
anyone stupid enough to eat bacon, must know that SODIUM NITRATE causes cancer!!!!!
February 2nd, 2008 at 5:12 pm
.. If I died eating bacon, I would die happy.
February 2nd, 2008 at 8:37 pm
Actually, you can buy bacon without nitrates. It’s a little more expensive, but it’s worth it.
Sodium nitrate is added to make it look red, so the non-nitrate bacon looks grayish in the package compared to the regular kind. However, it cooks up to the same color as regular bacon and most importantly, the flavor is at least as good.
February 2nd, 2008 at 9:18 pm
in response to sodium nitrate causing cancer… what doesn’t get credited with causing cancer? as best i can figure, 1 in 7 people die of cancer, and 7 of 7 breathe air. so air causes cancer.
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:47 pm
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February 4th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Someone needs to throw cancer guy a beating…
February 4th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Whoa, no beatings! We’re talking about bacon here.
Feel the love.
The love for bacon!
February 5th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
WTF?!!! I just spent 10 min. reading through this rather ridiculous list of comments. I didn’t realize bacon could stir such emotions!! The only emotion bacon elicits from me is LOVE!!!!!! mmmmmmmmmmmm. thanks for posting, gonna try this.
February 6th, 2008 at 12:22 am
I’m not sure if I stumbled here because of the beacon or the hilarious blog entries. But a worthy stumble indeed.
February 6th, 2008 at 8:14 am
Cooper: Beacon or Bacon? I guess both are good!
February 7th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Just genius………………….thats all
February 12th, 2008 at 8:24 am
[…] Breakfast Blogger Batgrl dropped by and left us a link to the Breakfast Blogger’s Bacon Weave. Very nice, thanks! […]
February 12th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
mmmm….wow. this bacon weave looks fantastic. When BLT weather comes back around, this is at the top of my list.
February 14th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
Can you imagine adding tomatoes cheese and turkey during the last couple of minutes of cooking. The club would never be the same again, along with your heart. I would would give up a piece of my heart for that.
February 14th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
if i were still eating meat i would do this in a heartbeat. and to think i wasted all those years having bits of my blt without bacon because, lets face it, no matter how hard you try the bacon never really matches up to cover the whole sandwich. it almost makes me want to go back to meat, if only long enough to try this.
February 18th, 2008 at 12:46 am
New or not, I’ve never seen anything like this - wow! I think it is pretty cool! I love bacon, so I would love to have a sandwich made from a bacon quilt!!!! I know, I know - it’s bad for us, but in such a good way LOL.
As for the bashing of Sandra Lee and Giada - shame on you. Whether or not you like someone is of little consequence to anyone else. I personally do not care fro Rachel Ray or Alton Brown, but millions do. That doesn’t insult me or my intelligence one bit. I’m sure Ms Ray and Mr. Brown are not bothered by the fact that they are not among my favorites.
While gourmet food is often times delicious (although, some times it is simply pretentious!) most of us cannot afford/do not care to eat it as regular fare. I think that Ms Lee and Ms de Laurentis do not profess to be gourmet chefs but rather cooks for the regular person eating regular food.
Thankfully, there is much room in this world of our for dissenting opinions, and I, for one, am glad that we are free to express our opinions. I am also thankful that we can share different experiences.
Thanks for the “bacon quilt”.
February 18th, 2008 at 10:37 am
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February 21st, 2008 at 12:31 am
*bows down to the bacon god*
this is a dream come true….
on a different note.. who here has successfully made this?
great post btw!
February 21st, 2008 at 12:44 am
My heart just skipped a beat, I’m completely in love. I could eat one every day…totally
February 21st, 2008 at 11:31 am
I’m sure the pigs are splitting their sides with laughter. And I like the way it’s on the page next to the headline “A Jewish Christmas”.
February 21st, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Hey, I bet Larry the Cable Guy would like it.
February 21st, 2008 at 7:11 pm
That looks sooooooooooooooo wonderfully tasty. I’m going to have to try it now. Thanks! You rule for posting this! :D
February 23rd, 2008 at 1:38 am
the fact that there are such things as food blogs, food bloggers, people who routinely read food blogs, and creeps who stalk food blogs and are well known to the food blog community…well, that just makes my brain hurt.
February 24th, 2008 at 12:21 am
This has got to be Man’s Greatest Achievement!!! We all bow down to you!!!
February 25th, 2008 at 11:52 pm
my heart melts for bacon and toast!
February 27th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
wow, this is the most interesting blog about bacon I have ever read. entertainment and mouth-watering images of food. ummm… the crazy stalker and his fictional wife have been distracting me and i never caught if you cooked it in microwave, stove-top, oven???
March 8th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
I feel so left out…. I think I’ll check the other articles for some non-bacon yummy-ness.
March 11th, 2008 at 9:03 am
Whhhaaaat? Yummmyyy…
March 11th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Hey Chiff.
“as an UNEMPLOYED professional chef” eh? (I fixed your cruise control.), I highly recommend finding a job before lambasting people who do are employed within their profession. As an EMPLOYED professional chef, your skill defines your livelihood, as well as your employment status, and if you’re no good at it, you should probably do something else, have you ever considered McDonald’s?
Hey Baconisfordummies.
And? Your post is made of complete irrelevance. In this day and age, certain studies funded by special interest groups will say what the interest group wants the study to say if the price is right. Cellphones caused tumors, then they caused benign tumors, then they cause malignant tumors, then they cause no tumors at all, then they made your sperm count small, then they killed children in school shootings, then they caused 9/11. So because of something you “read” in a report/on the internet, don’t just rebroadcast what could be potentially false information. Remember when Margarine was better for you than Butter, and the time before that when Butter was better for you than Margarine?
At any rate, Baconweave is made of bacon, and win. So what if you’re an unemployed food troll or someone who believes everything you read?
It’s interesting, so contribute something you find is better instead of bashing what’s been contributed.
March 12th, 2008 at 7:30 am
Baconweave IS made of bacon and win… thanks Bob.
March 22nd, 2008 at 1:04 am
[…] The Bacon Weave […]
March 29th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
I had a huge rant that I then erased, in favor of not perpetuating that stuff any longer and helping get this discussion back on track. Some people simply didn’t learn proper etiquette.
I have a question about the bacon weave, particularly around the edges — did its inherent moistness hold it together, or did you use toothpicks during cooking? Does it help hold the sandwich together better so the bacon doesn’t fall out (I don’t use sandwich spread on BLT)?
Its very neat-looking. (8 And it looks done exactly the way I like it!
April 7th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
I think I read all of the messages and still haven’t seen anyone who actually did it. Please, if you have tried it, tell us how to do it “right”. I may try it anyway, but knowing how to do it “best” would be really helpful. I will wait to see…( I’m not the world’s best cook, so will leave technique to the more talented of us). If I don’t see any posting telling how to do it, I will forge ahead. :)
April 11th, 2008 at 12:30 am
This has been a great read. You’ve all truly entertained a slightly intoxicated person in Missouri. Keep up the good work on the food blogging. I’m not sure if I’ll ever try this, but it does look amazing (even if it isn’t a new idea).
April 16th, 2008 at 1:51 am
Hey What about a deep fried bacon weave?
um good
April 18th, 2008 at 6:01 am
Bacon Weave……Hmmm…….I wonder why there’s so many obese Americans?
April 20th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
[…] I used to agree with Ruhlman, until I saw the bacon weave. Now that’s art! (Thanks to Gary.) […]
May 22nd, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Awesome idea, it’s almost weird how someone hasn’t thought of this before.
BUT, pork isn’t kosher, bacteria inside pig doesn’t die even after it’s cooked AND pigs are the worst treated factory farm animals. It’s sick, there’s bacon in almost all fast food to give you the idea of how bad it is. I don’t eat pork, or meat for that matter. I have been almost 95% vegan for the last 9 months. It’s easier then you think.
May 22nd, 2008 at 9:50 pm
Just looking at this i ganied like 2 lbs, Do you think it could be done with turkey bacon? My hubby would b so supprised to see a blanket of bacon over hi usual scrabled eggs w/ cheese. (sorry about the typos, dislexia isnt good for spelling)
I cant belive all the drama over meat, but i have to admit I found it all quite annoyin and yet amusing.
July 22nd, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Tried it 2 nights ago, most amazing sandwich of my life.
July 22nd, 2008 at 3:06 pm
after reading all these comments from truly serious bacon fans like my self, i figured i’d put up how we made it and see if anyone can improve on it. Basically we started by doing math, 3 guys X 2 pounds of bacon = amazing. Next We split up the bacon and tried to see who could come up with the best weaving method. Mine took the longest but had the tightest weave. What I did was lay out about 8 strips of bacon on a plate in the same direction. Then I placed one piece of bacon along the edge in the other direction with a weave pattern through the eight pieces. Now I folded every second piece of the 8 bacon strips backwards over the single woven piece along the edge. This made it easy to place a second strip beside the singe one over top of the 4 pieces not folded away. When you fold back the 4 pieces it creates a weave. Then fold the other 4 pieces back and place another strip beside the 2 that are woven already and fold the 4 pieces back. Kinda confusing to type but it was the easiest way to create a tight weave. We cooked the bacon on a broiler pan in the stove for 15 minutes each side at high broil. The bacon automatically fuses together with the grease and stuff to create a solid sheet of baconness. The hardest part for us was transporting the bacon weave in it’s raw state from the plate to the broiler pan. I found pressing my open hand across the weave and slowing sliding worked best. We thought weaving it on the pan would work but only if you make one weave. Since we were making 3 the pan was to hot to make the second and third on after the first was cooked. We put the weave on sliced tomato’s, sprinkled it with mozzarella and put it on mayo’d cheese bread. My wife picked on us the full four hours we spent working on the project but when I offered her just one bite she changed her mind immediately.
August 3rd, 2008 at 4:34 pm
wow– knowledge is power!
Post the facts, and the trolls evaporate! Goof on ya nocab4L!
Bacon-y goodness, and great weave instructions.