Colored Bacon
August 30, 2012 1:00 pm 158 Comments
Neil Caldwell has come up with something that is pure genius. He has created the color wheel of bacon!
No, this bacon was not a victim of photoshop. This is real colored bacon. And you can eat it! Nom, nom, nom!
In the photos above, you can see the raw bacon in their color bowls and the cooked colored bacon below it. Notice how well the color is retained? Seriously awesome!
It’s probably the most delicious rainbow we’ve ever seen. Put some golden tots at the end of this bacon rainbow and you’ll definitely get lucky. Show your Bacon Pride!
Maybe this rainbow would work if you used bacon jerky?
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158 Comments
Ok, now this is perfect for Easter breakfast. Colored eggs….colored bacon. It couldn’t be more right!
I agree Jim. This is a beautiful way to start my day (check out that rhyme).
Secret? I think the “secret” recipe is bacon, and food coloring. Just a wild guess though.
no. it’s weird. y’all are weird. acquire lives
That is gross as all hell…
Bacon should be pink, with bits of white. Colour just ain’t natural!!!
I have not met anyone who doesn’t like bacon. I’ll eat it no matter what colour it is.
likes this..
oh… tats disgusting.. u sure tats edible?
Great ! Artery clogging crud and carcinogenic food color for the “win”.
No.
These youngsters will change their bacon lifestyle with the times. Let them have their fun. Maybe their children with make bacon shapes, or stand them up on the plate. Let’s keep focused here, the issue is that it’s still bacon.
First nitrates, now mysterious dying agents! Gee I wonder what new meat processing enhancement they’ll think of next……
green eggs and ham anyone?
People find it hard to get their kids to eat bacon? REALLY? I think they should take this technique and transfer it to something less appealing – like have multicolored corn or something. Maybe… rainbow SALT to season just about anything?
If this really is just bacon and moderately diluted food coloring, it probably tastes horrible. Above a relatively low concentration, food coloring makes things taste like the tip of a permanent marker.
I don’t know about this – I like my bacon au-naturel if you know what I mean. I would be concerned that the red bacon has red food coloring and isn’t that carcinogenic?
Don’t hate-this is diversity in bacon! Can’t all colors get along-alongside the eggs on my breakfast plate?
this is perfect for a halloween themed breakfast, but only if flavor isn’t compromised by the “secret recipe”
This does the impossible and makes bacon unappealing. Weird dirty yellow bacon? Yum….
Just because it is colorful will not make a child eat it, at least not any child with a bit of intelligence and self-respect. My kids would [ if they were also not smart enough to know bacon=good ] look at me like, “It’s still the stuff I didn’t want to eat… only now it’s colorful”. Maybe “parenting” is an option???
Ewww!!!
Doesn’t look pleasing… we should stop eating junk i guess.. Bacon isn’t junk.. color it, it becomes junk. scary bacon!
yeah, that’s gotta be healthy. i mean… bacon is ALREADY healthy for ya so…
*Wretch*
Disgusting!
Where do i sign up?
I prefer Green Eggs and Ham =)
Frickin A — First of a new breed. There’s progress for ya 😀
That’s awesome! I NEED to figure this out if he’s not tellin! Every year for at least the last 28, my family has green eggs & ham for St. Patricks day dinner! We usually do scrambled with the bacon (as the ‘ham’) thrown in because you couldn’t dye it! This is epic!
If I had to guess, I’d say the coloring was added during the curing process, or at least as a marinade or brine.
Not real unusual, but this is the first time I’ve seen it applied to bacon.
What did they do, dip a pig into the Gulf of Mexico?
Green bacon is the tastiest vegetable ever!
I love bacon and I love colors but I don’t know about soaking, soggy bacon step to get there. That part weirds me out.
Just because you CAN, doesn’t mean you should. On a personal level, I find this repugnant in appearance and strongly suspect it will also dye a person’s mouth bright Ick. Not to mention the flavor issue, which others have brought up. Pass, and thanks for playing “what stupid $&#! can we do to food items today?”
Homer: I’ll have the smiley face breakfast special. Uhh, but could you add a bacon nose? Plus bacon hair, bacon mustache, five o’clock shadow made of bacon bits and a bacon body.
Waitress: How about I just shove a pig down your throat?
(Homer looks excited)
Waitress: I was kidding.
Homer: Fine, but the bacon man lives in a bacon house!
Waitress: No he doesn’t!
If you have a problem getting your children to eat bacon, then you need new kids.
same thing with green eggs, ham and green beer on st pattys day… doesnt change the taste, only the color coming out the other end.
wrong Wrong WRONG!
I will eat green eggs and bacon.
I will eat them, I’m not fakin’.
I will eat them down in Hell.
I will eat them with Neil Caldwell.
I will eat green eggs and bacon!
And a green martini, stirred not shaken.
“Ever had trouble getting your kids to eat their meat?” No. Who has ever had trouble getting their kid to eat meat, ESPECIALLY BACON? And if their kid doesn’t want to eat meat, who cares? Bacon isn’t a required food group, it’s a luxury item. It’s also not very good for you. Not wanting to eat bacon doesn’t sound like something to be overcome, it sounds like something to be praised.
Also, food coloring additives are harmful to your health, and often cause or irritate food allergies. Your graphic designer friend could use some food science classes before he goes around poisoning everyone with his “art”.
There’s no such thing as a “required” food group. But if there were, Bacon would be it.
Well, all these guys did was copy Sponge Bob. Goolgle search “Sponge Bob Pretty Patties”.
I’d eat colored bacon.
Ellen said:
“Maybe… rainbow SALT to season just about anything?”
Mentally I just made my first million. Thanks, Ellen :O)
Can I just mention that American bacon is no good for you. British bacon is virtually all meat whereas US bacon is usually one processed strip of fat, ooh my arteries!
Bacon is nasty I hate it it
One more thing when I don’t die a horrible fat, heart attack u will relish in the fact that I didn’t eat bacon
Your heart attack won’t come from back. It will come from being anal retentive.
This is bloody stupid, why ruin something so good?
Just an after thought.. if the kids aren’t going to eat their “meat” as the article says… so be it, that means more for us.
I look forward to get some Hello Kitty Bacon. I’m so excited about that possibility. Just imagine: your Hello Kitty plate, fork, knife, glass, napkin… AND BACON! That’s what humanity was needing, now that I saw this I know that I’m ready to die.
“You won’t get any pudding if you don’t eat your meat! How can you have pudding if you don’t eat your meat!!”
Thank you Pink Floyd
I think it is a great idea. It makes it so repulsive and artificial that people will give up eating that cholesterol bomb called ‘bacon’
This is easy to make and really tasty…though the sight of blue bacon should really make anyone sick!
Since when do kids ever have trouble eating meat? And especially, eating bacon??
I…just really don’t know what to say about this…seems so wrong, yet right at the same time. Ghastly might be a good word…
OMG, it’s iBacon!!!
do you do color beef bacon?
This is so wrong, they started with packaging our food with poisonos plastic, now colored bacon, if you simply know how to raise your kids, no need to fool them into getting sick, bacon already is not the healthiest meat. I hope you eat healthy from whats naturally available. PeACE!
This is just not ok…
there is only one way to achieve these colos and that is by food coloring, and a lot of it. Not a healthy thing to ingest too much of and by heating the bacon, what other chemical compounds are formed? Take a look at food color chemitry some day.
I couldn’t agree more with most of you on it. Not only does it look gross…But it would start my day off a little better. I mean who the heck wouldn’t want bright colored bacon on a rainy day to brighten up their day. I’m one for wearing bright colors or even seeing bright colors just to start my day off fantastical!!!
My kid will eat bacon all day long. Not that colored bacon. This is a way for them not to eat. It’s not always about the color. Veggies have colors and they get fed to the dog. LOL
Now Dr. Seuss would be jealous.
And after your intestines have completed their work? I know that after eating a DQ Scooby Doo Blizzard what all the food coloring did. I would not eat that again either…..
Lets make our food a bit more artificial HUH!?!?!?!
Our kids our going to live to the age of 40 if we keep feeding them all this artificial food !!
No, and wrong!
The rationale is bullshit. What kid wouldn’t enjoy bacon just as it is? And if they don’t like the flavour, for some insane reason – doesn’t everyone like bacon? – why would colouring it make a difference?
This is asinine.
I think Colorful bacon is amazing… Course then again I absolutely love rainbows. It might look disgusting… Oh but i would still try it. BACON IS AMAZING! And now that it is rainbow. Heh, well I’m just in a Colorfull heaven. And for everyone’s information. I think that calling it Gay bacon is great.. Because clearly rainbow symbolize gays, And gay people are amazingly wonderful. Woohoo Support for gays by food =) Even if it is food that makes you fat.
HO SAD BACON!! GIV ME DA BACON!!! NOOW!!!!!!!!
I doubt I’d eat the rainbow colored bacon, but I LOVED reading all the comments! Best comments on an article I’ve read in a LONG time. The bacon, however, is mildly disturbing. Interesting, but decidedly abnormal. Think I’ll pass.
Bacon had a mom.
Why do people insist on ruining real food by adding petroleum-based chemicals? This is ludicrous!
The downfall of all Americans.
Eeeeew! That’s just plain wrong!
Oh Yeah, Red Dye #2. Yum.
What would this do to poops?
But,why?
the red bacon looks like bacon.
Yum, colored scab-like food! (Never ever liked bacon–this just ups it’s grossness).
So, you never liked bacon but post on a bacon site? Why bother?
Looks intriguing. But kids will eat bacon anyhow cause they just get hooked on the fats.
OMG skittles + bacon = RAINBOW BACON!!!!! X3
He reveals his secret today at the Toronto Star
ttp://www.thestar.com/living/article/832972–coloured-bacon-creator-reveals-his-secret?bn=1
“Neil Caldwell marinates strips of regular supermarket bacon in baths of yellow, red, green and purple dye for from 24 to 30 hours. Then he fries the strips and – voila – red, orange, yellow, blue and purple bacon.
Why doesn’t the colour leach out?
“I have no idea,” Caldwell tells the Star, barely able to stop laughing long enough to talk.
“A bit of colour does come out. The hue difference between the fat and the meat is quite noticeable.”
Otherwise, he’s baffled. He’s a 38-year-old graphic designer who had a vision of coloured bacon one Sunday morning in a supermarket, slightly hung over, when a blue baby stroller crossed his line of vision in front of the bacon counter.
The secret could be in the marinating, he admits. But he’s never soaked the bacon in the dye for less than 24 hours, so he’s not sure. He does know that refridgeration seems to make no difference to the final result.
“Visually, it has a bit of a twist,” says Caldwell, explaining the appeal from a designer’s point of view. “The colours are associated with produce: lemons, blueberries, oranges. But when you eat it, you get the earthy taste of bacon.””
Very cool however it kinda freaks me out like the purple and green ketsup.
*catsup OR ketchup. Not a combination of the two
this is definately kind of cool. i think it would spice up breakfast pretty well. imagine a blt. wow lots of color.lol
*definitely
Hey…I make pancakes for the kids in every color of the rainbow…now the bacon will match.
great combination of trans fats and food coloring…. nails in your cofines people!
This is like spray painting over the Mona Lisa in primary colors to make it appeal to Andy Warhol fans. Great way to ruin God’s greatest meat creation.
Exactly!
>heyto Says:
>July 8th, 2010 at 3:52 pm
>I wish this bacon trend would die already.
Bacon is not a trend, it is meat that is reaching its full potential, and people are finally starting to give it the recognition it deserves.
the coloring of bacon is a trend dont try and act smart when clearly your not and bacon has always been popular and coloring it is a stupid trend that needs to die.
The bacon looks weird. Seeing this is remembering my College days that I ate blue sauce spaghetti. I think Neil Caldwell is studying about how humans can eat those foods that we are not actually convenient in eating when their color will change. I am 100% that these colored bacon are still pretty yummy as the bacon we usually ate! Bon Appetit!
Everything about this is stupid. The article, the commentary, the concept itself. I hate everything.
epic
You all need to get a life with the comments. For god sakes its bacon…with food coloring what is you problem! Whats next comments like aliens are affecting our meat with there probes!…holy crap man. I’ll say it again get a life and move on….its just bacon…smells the same…taste the same…its just a novel idea and you guys trash it like its death. Heres a novel idea if it bothers you eating the bacon,shut up and..move away from the table and let the rest of us eat it….duh!
but… aliens ARE affecting or meat with probes. They’re out there… just wait.
food coloring is usually water based . It does not easily dye fat. There is a clever trick involved.
“Ever had trouble getting your kids to eat their meat?”
Um, no. How about a more realistic bacon-vs-kids question:
“Ever had to banish your entire family from the kitchen to stop all the pork products from vanishing so that by the time you actually serve breakfast it’s only eggs and toast and nobody is interested?”
Yeah, yellow bacon would definitely solve that one. “Eww, what’s wrong with the bacon?”
whats next, multi colored pigs?
God, I hope so!
Terribly unfair to tease us with colored bacon, and not tell us how to do it! Curses!
This is hilarious. Found your blog via The Ktchn where they talked about colored eggs.
Do you know what website you are on?
Heyto-If you are not here for bacon orgasms you are on the wrong website.
BaconGuy-Love this website. You are my hero.
Perfect for arselifters! 8)
Alfred Hitchcock used to play games with his dinner guests – he would have his gourmet chef prepare a wonderful dinner in high classic French style, all strictly by the book except for one detail: all the food would be dyed bright electric blue. No matter how hard they tried, most could NOT eat the food.
Who has trouble getting there kids to eat bacon?! Do such children really exist? What sad children 😉
blondy773 says:
but… aliens ARE affecting or meat with probes. They’re out there… just wait.
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Did you mean “our meat”, dear? Perhaps you shouldn’t bash other people’s grammar when you yourself have a poor handle on it…
That’s not poor grammar, it’s a typo. You sir (or madam) are an asshole!
Exactly what kids needs. Yet more artificial food colorants which are known to be so bad for you
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Coloured Bacooon!
I want it, Now!
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wat do u maen bacon is the best food out there ur taste buds r ovsosly wrong
wat r so stupid bacon is the best food out there either ur mental or ur taste buds dont work!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BURN the blasphemer!!!
Just one thing, I think nowadays we’re supposed to say “Bacon of Color.”
Why on earth would I feed my child with bacon in the first place??
Because you love them and want them to be healthy and strong! I’d be leery of the color though, at least until I knew how it was created.
Your article perftcley shows what I needed to know, thanks!
Get off this site.
Because Bacon is the perfect food. It’s High In Fat and Protein, and v. low in carbs
Why on earth would you even be on this site talking trash about something we love. Go away and leave us happy people alone, you’re starting to bring some of us down with your negativity. If I took your comment literally then I guess you could be asking why use bacon as a fork or spoon. Your negative Nelly attitude is making me think. I guess there is a tinge of yin in the yang. I’m going to try it,
you sir -and i dont care if u r a lady- r a bleep! u shod never come back hear again!
Will this make my pooop rainbow?
Yeah me too – I wanna know if it will make my poop rainbow???
This is AWSESOME! I don’t think i would eat it, but awesome nontheless.
Mr. B,
Bacon already has a color, and it is not yellow, blue, green, or purple.
You also state that this would be great for kids that don’t like to eat their meat. Kids might not eat meat, but I have not met one yet that won’t eat Bacon.
Lots of irate debate over colorful bacon! Food color is largely harmless if not overdone, and it certainly makes it look fun, as if you ever needed to enhance bacon. Bacon enhances everything else, but why not? Btw, bacon refers to the smoking process, and different countries use different parts of the pig to make bacon, it’s the smoke that makes it so good, as it does on all types of meat animals.Smoked duck is wonderful! Ignore the naysayers.
GIVE ME BACON NOM AND DOM JUMP
Nope. There are just too many horrible, pseudo-documentary, have-a-different-agenda “movies” out there to watch. Can’t se them all, can we?
After reading these comments it’s really obvious that there are a lot of uptight people with nothing better to do than bag on bacon on a bacon website. People, get a life. Maybe bacon has some mood-altering effect that would make even the most holier-than-thou critic relax and enjoy life. These nutcases are only a whisper away from the conspiracy theorists, religious zealots, and anti-everything activists with some overwhelming need to “educate” those who actually understand but couldn’t care less about their tired speeches.
Lighten up, people. It’s bacon. If you don’t like it, don’t eat it. But go preach on some other site.
Love this!!! It’s fun, it’s cool, and I know my kids will love it. Usually, we do green eggs and ham every now and then. Next time, we’ll do green eggs and bacon.
@Kita Kita Bacon Eater!
How long do you soak the eggs and ham?
🙂
Screw the eggs…I want THIS in my easter basket next year.
This is soo awesome.. how do you do this?
I agree, Those of us who love bacon can not be swayed by the naysayers, who should stop preaching about how it’s bad for you. If you think people should not eat bacon, go stick your face in a plate of tofu and leave us alone.
colored bacon is AWESOME i could pee myself lol
Neil Caldwell has come up with something that is pure genius. He has created the color wheel of bacon!
No, this bacon was not a victim of photoshop. This is real colored bacon. And you can eat it! Nom, nom, nom!
What a ridiculous, pointless thing to do to bacon!
“Anyone feeding dyed bacon to their children should be investigated by CPS immediantly. Forget investigating them, they should remove the children immediantly.”
Would you mind telling us all exactly *why* you think this should happen? Do you really believe this, or was your ‘opinion’ invented purely to annoy us?
I’d really love to know.
–S
Woah. Bacon!
bacon sucks…no one should feed it to their kids. its not good for your health. be warned!!!
mmmmmm. Bacon-haters crazy. Dont listen to him/her.
Easter Bacon! I’d hunt for that!