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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Tom Hunt

‘Crisps up perfectly’: the best (and worst) supermarket bacon, tasted and rated

Smoked streaky bacon
A cut above: the sizzle of smoked streaky bacon has a legendary allure. Photograph: Robert Billington/The Guardian. Food styling: Robert Billington.

Crisp, mahogany-red rashers of smoked streaky bacon are the food of the gods. Naturally rich in glutamates – umami compounds that make food deeply savoury – it’s no wonder that the smell of sizzling bacon has such legendary allure.

As the name suggests, layers of fat are marbled through a rasher of streaky bacon, which comes from the lower belly of the pig. Fat holds flavour and distributes it through the meat, resulting in a full, long-lasting taste experience.

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