The folks that brought you hover bacon have done it again. In the name of science and love of bacon, they have sought to answer once and for all the question that’s been plaguing the world for so long…

Can a rocket be made of bacon?

You know you’ve always wanted to know the answer. The Rather Good team provides the proof.

There was some scientific discussion a few months ago that discussed the possible link between bacon and hangover cures. The connection had something to do with amino acids and their reaction with something or other in the body. (Very scientific, I know.)

There’s a new study now that expands even further on this concept and begins to explain why we like bacon in the first place. The story from the Telegraph includes the following tibit:

“At the centre of it all is the Maillard reaction, a chemical reaction between an amino acid and a reducing sugar which often requires heat. The acid and sugar react to release a huge amount of smells and flavours.”

This could mean that bacon is not a choice, but a way of life that’s hard coded into our DNA. 

Stop denying the bacon love that lives within and start to shout the love without. 

BACON! BACON! BACON!

– Mr. B

Popular Science writer Theodore Gray recently embarked on an experiment of supreme bacon significance. He created a “bacon lance” which is a form of “thermal lance” — a device typically made of iron to cut through scrap metal. This is something you just have to see to believe. Flaming bacon cutting through metal. Awesome.

You’ll notice during the video that Mr. Gray states that “it turns out ordinary American bacon does not have the structural integrity for this application.” He went on to call prosciutto “engineering grade bacon”. I think that just proves that prosciutto is inferior in taste to traditional belly bacon…do you agree? I mean come on, how can “engineering grade” taste good?

So I guess the moral of this story is that if the world’s iron supply is suddenly depleted, and we need to cut a bunch of scrap metal, then bacon will come forth to save the day. Or, we could just eat the bacon and forget about our iron deficiency, and set all that leftover prosciutto aflame.

Thanks to @bareknucks, @erong, and @cinnarose for alerting us to this fantastic story!

Read the original aricle on PopSci.com.

A new study was recently conducted that describes a new way to cure a hangover – bacon!

We love this study not just because of its lack of data and absence of cited sources, but also because of the resolute brevity with which the UK Telegraph saw fit to use when sharing it with the world. 

Unless our browser was broken, their entire article reads as follows:

“A bacon sandwich really does cure a hangover – by boosting the level of amines which clear the head, scientists have found.”

Bravo, scientists, wherever you are.

– Mr. B