Bacon. Bourbon. Yep. It’s bacon infused bourbon. C’mon, you have to know this isn’t a new concept. With all the new infused vodkas ranging from sweet tea, to whipped cream, to P.B. and J., and to Unicorn Barf; you have to know that bacon would sneak in there somewhere. After all, the world is a better place with bacon in it. Yes, there’s a Bacon Vodka. But did you know that you can make your very own delicious Bacon Bourbon? Of course you could make your own bacon infused vodka, but that takes infinitely longer than bacon bourbon (weeks). And you want to have a nice Bacon Old Fashioned this weekend!

Here’s how you get to making that sexy drink. A bacon with more smokiness creates a better and more sophisticated drink. It also amps up that bacony good flavor. Look for a Hickory Smoked Bacon. And make sure you’re hungry because you’re only going to be using the bacon fat to infuse your bourbon. You could always drink your cocktail with a plate of bacon. Or save the bacon for later. Do whatever you want; you’re your own person.

The process of infusing the bacon into the bourbon is called fat washing. Sounds gross but the result is absolutely delicious and delightfully intoxicating. To do it right, follow these steps:

Bacon Infused Bourbon
.33 cup of rendered bacon fat
3 cups of bourbon

Cook a pound of bacon and reserve the rendered fat. Add .33 cup of hot fat to a jar and fill with bourbon. Seal and allow to stand until it reaches room temperature. Place the jar in the freezer for 24 hours. The fat will solidify but the bourbon will remain in a liquid state. Open the jar and pour off the bourbon, straining through a coffee filter or cheesecloth to remove any loose fat particles.

Bottle it and slap on a cool label. Or get to the mixing:

Bacon Old Fashioned
2 oz bacon-infused bourbon
.25 oz Grade B Maple Syrup (A syrup darker in color and containing more of a caramel flavor)
2 dashes Angostura Bitters
Orange twist

In a cocktail shaker filled with ice, combine all the ingredients except for the orange twist. Shake, then strain into a tumbler glass filled with a couple of ice cubes. Garnish with the orange twist. Then enjoy bacony, boozey goodness. It’s the perfect man drink. Or even a sexy drink for an awesome lady.

Now, sit back and… Ahh. Enjoy.

In case you didn’t know- Burger King is not only a U.S. fast food mogul. Burger King, like many other fast food giants, spreads its glutinous speedy wings into other parts of the globe. Not really a surprise though. To be honest, our American eating ways are a little coveted. Well, duh! We believe in overindulging in delicious things. Like bacon, for example. And Japan’s Burger King decided to make quite the American statement.

The word on the street is that for a limited time, Burger King would put an extra serving of 15 slices of bacon on your burger for 110 Yen. (That’s $1.24 for us Americans.)

This Japanese fellow really wanted to make a statement. We don’t know if he was making a bet with someone or trying to get a hot date out of his endeavor, but he certainly got more than he bargained for. This guy asked for 70 extra servings of bacon (that’s 1,050 slices) on his burger. Check out the video. He definitely had to hit the bathroom after a few bites. Guess he didn’t get that hot date.

As if there weren’t enough decadent bacon concoctions out there in the world… Actually, no there aren’t. There’s no such thing as “enough” when it comes to bacon. We feel that the world could use more bacon recipes. Therefore we created the Bacon Pretzel Rolos. Some of you may have heard of the Rolo Pretzel Turtles. Delicious little candy morsels with layers consisting of a pretzel, Rolo candy, and then topped with a nut.

Sound good? Sure. But we’ve got one better. Check it: A pretzel topped with a bacon piece, then topped with a Rolo candy. Bake a cookie pan full of these guys and you’ve got yourself gooey, chocolatey- caramel- bacon- pretzel- candy things that will take anyone into bacon-candy euphoria. We’ve aptly named them the Bacon Pretzel Rolos. We wanted to name them “Happiness” but thought that was a little too general. But that’s exactly what these candies will do for you. Give you mouth- happiness like no other. We realize that statement sounds a little… off but we don’t care. We have no shame when it comes to bacon.

What’s that you say? You want to fill your mouth with happiness too? Perfect. Here’s how:

Ingredients:
Rolo candies
Mini pretzels (for more bacony flavor, use Maple Bacon Pretzels)
A pound of delicious bacon
Cookie sheet or nonstick cookie pan

Directions:
Fry up that bacon until it’s only slightly cooked. Keep in mind that you’re going to be baking the bacon morsels in the oven afterward so you don’t want your bacon overcooked.
Chop the bacon up into pieces about the same size as the pretzels.
On a cookie pan/sheet line up the pretzels as if you would cookies, layer with a slice of bacon, then top with a Rolo candy.
Bake in the oven at 250 degrees for 10- 15 minutes. Keep an eye on your candies because you don’t want to burn them. There’s nothing worse than burnt candies… Well, we’re pretty sure there are worse things but we don’t want to think of them.

When your Bacon Rolo Pretzels are done, take them out and let them cool so they can harden. Once they’re done; serve, wrap, eat, whatever. But there you have awesome, delicious one-of-a-kind bacon candies!

Bacon, lettuce, and tomato. BAM! Slap them between two slices of bread, add a little mayo in there… maybe some Sriracha…

However you like it, the BLT has its own following of loyal fans. Some would say that it has recruited die-hard fanatics. These fanatics will do anything for a BLT. If you need a job done, bribe someone with a BLT sandwich- made just the way they like it. We guarantee you’ll have the trash taken out in no time.

We understand that the BLT is incomparable to other sandwiches. Therefore, the brilliant minds at Frito Lay’s® have created the BLT Flavored Potato Chip! And now you’re thinking, “What’s that you say? A potato chip that embodies the perfection of a BLT sandwich? Say no more. I must have these chips in my lap right now! I drive an automatic! Gimme, gimme!”

This is when we say in our loudest, authoritative voice, “Settle down, BLT fanatic! We don’t need your greasy hands gripping the steering wheel while we’re on the road! But please, don’t hesitate to get these tempting crunchy potato- devils and eat them at home!”

If you’re asking for only a bacon flavored chip, and you don’t want your chips muddled up with any sissy vegetables or fruit, then you’ll just have to make your own… But if you love the flavor of a BLT, check out the Sun-Dried Tomato flavored bacon or the BLT flavored Bacon Jerky. Oh yeah, that’s some good stuff.

   

Yes, it exists. You may have heard of this enigma through the internet grapevine. Maybe you once saw it at a store and were too afraid to touch it.

Well, the crazy Bacon Freaks have brought back the Bacon Soda. We tried it and… Well, we won’t give it away. But we do highly recommend making the Bacon Soda Float with it. And don’t tell anyone, but we’ve been mixing it up with whiskey near the water cooler here at the bacon factory. Ssshhh… It’ssss delissshh- us. *Hiccup

So you may have heard of the Wake’n Bacon Alarm Clock. The amazing clock that awakens you to the smell of cooking bacon in the morning. Haven’t heard of it? Well, that’s okay because we’re going to tell you how you can make your own!

BAKON is an alarm clock that wakes you up to the smell of bacon and the sound of a piggy. BAKON starts cooking your bacon at the set time and wakes you up to the room filling with the delicious smell of bacon and the piggy sound.
No more waking up to the annoying sound of an alarm clock.
With BAKON you can get those extra 15 minutes to sleep instead of waking up early to make breakfast.

With BAKON, just place your frozen bacon in the alarm clock the night before. Set the alarm and go to bed.

Step 1: Things you will need.

Material:
Old Baking oven
Timer (like the one used for Christmas lights)
High temperature car engine paint
Pig key-chain (Carried at Party City)
Spare bottle caps for the nose (I used an old blender cap)
10 gauge solid wire
Eyes (Found at any craft store)

Tools:
Screw driver
Dremel (metal cutter)

Step 2: Get the oven ready.

First find the screw that holds the cover of the oven. Take them out and detach the cover.
Find the location where you want to install the timer and trace the outline to then cut the hole open with your Dremel.
To get the cover ready to paint, clean it with alcohol, and lightly sand with a 200 grid sand paper until the surface is not shiny anymore. Then clean with alcohol again.
Paint the cover with your high temperature engine paint.
Paint the nose and the legs.

Step 3: Get the key chain ready.

Open the key chain and solder cables to make extensions for the speakers, the led lights and the switch.
The best choice for the battery case is to just use the body of the pig to hold them inside.

Step 4: Install everything in the oven.

Find the best place to install the components of the key chain and drill holes for the speaker and the led lights.
I printed a transparency with the numbers for the oven and all the info that the oven had before the paint and I even made my own logo and name.
Also, on the hole, install your timer and connect the oven cable to the timer. Then connect the timer to an electric extension that is going to plug in as if it were the oven cable.

Step 5: The Final Touches

The knob that activates the switch needs to be modified. I added a little plastic piece that activates the switch when the cooking time is over.
With a hot-glue gun put the oven cable and the 10 gauge solid cable together starting at the beginning where the cable comes out of the oven. Then turn it to get that spring shape on the BAKON tail.
Put the cover back in the frame and make sure all your connections are ok.
Put the eyes, nose, and ears on and you’re done.
Now time to test it! Put your frozen bacon in and set your alarm on the oven to 15 minutes before your wake up time. Then… Enjoy!

It’s hard to resist any food item on the menu that contains bacon. Mac and cheese made with scallions, white truffle oil, and… bacon. Delicious! A mushroom, Swiss burger with thick strips of… bacon. Ooh, even better! It’s as if bacon completely amplifies meals; turning it into quite the euphoric eating experience. But it doesn’t stop there.

Bacon is quite ubiquitous these days. Even with top chefs using it to add irresistible flavor to their unique dishes; and the marriage of bacon and chocolate taking the chocolate lovers by storm, bacon isn’t only reserved for palatable foods. Bacon has inserted its aroma into soap, dental floss, and even candles. With all the allure behind this meat candy, Fresh Step® has come out with a new cat litter that will leave not only your cats feeling happy and clean; you may just have to keep your dog away from it as well!

Fresh Step® decided to experiment with different scents for their cat litter and to their surprise, the scent of bacon won out over all the floral arrangements. Fresh Step® Organic Bacon Scoopable Cat Litter emits the scent of bacon every time your cat uses the litter box. It also simulates the sound of bacon sizzling in the pan.

It’s the perfect litter for bacon lovers around the world! Fresh Step® Organic Bacon Cat Litter will have any cat purring.

Courtesy of Fresh Step­® and Green Door Communications

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Yeah, you read that correctly. Bacon soda float. If you’re sitting there, scratching your head, with a ridiculous befuddled expression painted across your face, think: “Root Beer Float”. But instead of Root Beer, you use Bacon Soda.
Ahhh.
Now do you understand? Good. If not, you should probably stick to picture books.

Bacon is the new badass food all over the internet. It’s in your email, invading your memes, clogging up your Facebook feed with photos of its glory, and transposing its allure into something almost enigmatic. Some could argue that bacon is the hipster of the food world. Others would say it’s more like a pirate. Plundering food booty for its pleasure! Arr! Ok, that last one we made up. We just wanted to use the word “booty” and thought that a bacon strip wearing an eye patch would look cool.

Anyway, you get it. Bacon is awesome.

So check it! This recipe is so easy, a dog with thumbs could make one!

Ingredients:
Bacon Soda
Ice Cream (We used Ben and Jerry’s Cinnamon Buns Ice Cream and it was the most delicious float we’ve ever tasted. You could try other ice cream flavors but this one paired the best with the bacon soda. If you want to start simple, go with vanilla.)

Directions:
Really? You really need directions for this part? Fine, we’ll indulge your dependency.
Put a couple scoops of ice cream in a cup. Fill with soda. Start slowly. You may have to move the ice cream around a bit with your straw to ensure that the soda gets to the bottom. Garnish with a bacon strip if you want.

Then suck down the sweet, sweet glory of bacon in a glass. You’re welcome.

             

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(You like? Wanna make one? Read on!)

The foodie trend has been all about comfort food. Blame it on the economy… Blame it on the previous decade’s pop culture appeal in Veganism. Whatever the reason; the infiltration of food trucks and immersion of comfort food TV shows has turned bacon into one major player in the food game. We don’t question why… it’s like looking a gift horse in the mouth.

Bacon has been paired up with more foods than you can think of. And sweets seem to offer just the right complimentary flavor to bacon’s unmistakable saltiness. The idea of pairing something salty and sweet isn’t exactly new, but adding bacon into the mix just makes the marriage new again and ultimately clever. There’s nothing like feeling hip and smart while you’re eating, right? And bacon has an attitude that just screams “Awesome”. Don’t deny it. You know it does.

Now let’s move onto the good stuff: The Bacon Milkshake. Yeah, you’ve probably heard of it. Jack in the Box decided to make their own and sell it to the quick and thrifty bacon loving masses. So of course we had to try it.

It was like Umbrella Corp had spliced Bacon’s DNA with the T-virus and infused it into Jack’s vanilla milkshake. The result was not on the Alice level, but more of her nefarious counterpart. Sorry, nerd reference there. Basically if you like a steroid induced, artificial bacon flavor, mixed with a thick vanilla shake, then this bad boy is for you. Being the bacon zealots we are this was not acceptable. We had to create our own.

We did.

And it was good.

         

You want to know how? Oh, we’ll tell you how! And you better rush to your kitchen and do it!

Ingredients:
(For 4 servings)

- Get a pound of bacon!
- ½ Cup of Whole Milk (Skim or lowfat for the wussies. But, c’mon, it’s bacon! Your diet went out the window when you started reading this article.)
- 2 ½ tablespoons of Maple Syrup (the darker, the better for syrupy goodness)
- 1 teaspoon of salt
- 9 scoops of Vanilla Ice Cream (this you can vary on how creamy and Vanilla-y you want it)
- Whipped Cream (as an optional topping, but we strongly adhere to using it)

Create!

Fry or microwave that bacon. We don’t care how you cook it; you just need to get lots of that delicious bacon fat. You really won’t be using the bacon strips, but they’re fun to eat, aren’t they? Collect all the fat in a bowl/cup and set it aside. You want the fat cooled a little- still in liquid form but not piping hot. Do whatever you want with the bacon. Eat it, store it, use it as a mustache, create a likeness of Kevin Bacon with crumbled pieces, use them for swordplay… we don’t care. Just don’t throw it away. That’s blasphemy.

Put the milk, maple syrup, salt, and ice cream in the blender. Now gather 4 Tablespoons of the bacon fat and pour it into the mix. Blend it up! Pulse it on a lower setting. You will have to occasionally push down the mixture into the blades to get it fully blended. (Obviously when the blender is off, you dolt!) Continue the transition between blending and pushing down until it’s all blended up into an even, delicious mixture.

When it’s done, pour it into glasses and top with whipped cream if you so desire. Crumble up some bacon and garnish the whipped cream with the pieces. Get a straw… Pretty sure you know how to take it from there.

So if you haven’t started already, go make one! You’re welcome.

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It seems that the internet provides us with a plethora of information on the gloriousness of bacon. In fact, it’s such a congested, mind boggling highway of information it can leave a person completely overloaded. Which brings us to a more summarized version of bacon and its magnitude of uses. And when I mean shorter, I mean more like a picture book. Not because I’m lazy, (noooo, not at all!), but mainly because the majority of us bacon-lovin’ internet viewers have the attention span of a two year old… when we don’t have bacon in our hands.

First, take your bacon and wrap it around your food. What food you ask? Anything! Open your fridge, and pull out the first thing you see that’s not a liquid, and wrap the bacon around it. Scallops, asparagus, dates, tater tots, peppers… Most food is not safe from bacon’s wrapping abilities. Magically, bacon makes food tastes infinitely better. If you’re not sure about your recipe, just add bacon!

Food recipes are an obvious place to use bacon. There’s the bacon brownie, bacon cinnamon rolls, bacon pie, bacon balls, bacon bread, bacon jam, bacon soda… holy bacon fat, Batman! I think I just had a brain aneurysm.

But of course it doesn’t stop there. Let’s move on to the pictures! I know you’re excited.

1. Bacon flavored vodka. For those who love bacon so much they want to get drunk off of it. Or throw up so much they can’t stand the taste of bacon ever again. We’re not sure which.

2. The bacon gun (a.k.a. The BA-K 47): Everyone wants to shoot stuff with a gun made out of bacon, right? Makes perfect sense.

3. A bacon mug to drink your beer out of. Of course! One should not go to their local pub with out one.

4. The bacon bowl: Because who wants to do the dishes anyway?

5. Girls in bikinis= Awesome. Girls in BACON bikinis= Epic.

6. The bacon bazooka. Again, shooting things with a weapon of mass amounts of bacon. Just a bigger and badder version.

7. Because nothing says “I love you” more than bacon roses. Who wants to receive some dead plants anyway?

8. Just because. You can never have enough bacon, right?

9. Bacon Ice Cream. Chocolate is for wusses anyway.

10. Lastly, art. Because bacon is just so moving on its own. Beautiful. This brings a tear to our eye.

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