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I like crispy [streaky] bacon and rare steak, so I’m on your team.

BUT ... what do the majority of BA’s pax prefer? Don’t they scream if there’s blood on the plate, or howl that their rasher of bacon has been ruined?

Neat Thread title, BTW ;)

I'd love some black pudding myself!

Agreed, but again that’s probably at the far end of the bell-curve. Sadly, BA caters for the majority who like over-cooked steaks and barely-cooked bacon without exotic additions,

As someone who lives in the US where the choices tend to be the streaky / crispy bacon or else Canadian bacon (think ham for those who don't know what I mean) one of the pleasures of coming back to the UK is the ability to have "proper" bacon! That said, I definitely do like it cooked to the point where the fat is crispy but the meat is still tender. The BA breakfast bacon doesn't quite hit the spot when it comes to that - it definitely needs a bit longer under the grill.

I think I must be one of those who appreciates all facets of bacon. From bacon as a seasoning (think bacon bits on a potato), to american extra crispy streaky bacon to BA bacon to how I cook it myself. In my view it is all good. Even the canteen at work can't dull my enthusiasm for bacon!

My understanding is that food on a plane is cooked by convection (steam) rather than radiation for safety reasons.
That makes 'crisping' something that needs extra technology to pull off.
You could either reheat pre-crisped bacon (thus losing the crisp) or use a bacon crisping device and a microwave (unlikely as it needs extra kit).

Are we talking in flight bacon or lounge bacon? I am a big fan of the GF cooked breakfast buffet, a big factor in my attempt to retain gold this year.

In flight bacon is undercooked IMO.

#BaconTalk.com ;)

This is definitely a pig deal. Good quality bacon should not be rasher-ned. To say it can't be done would be telling porkies.

You streaked past the back of the pack there. Chop-chop the rest of you, or you'll get a grilling at the finish line.

This is clearly a Fry-day Thread.

And the fat should run, not sit there attached to the meat. ;)

Hopefully enough feedback will cure the problem. ;)
I like my bacon with the meat slightly thick and salty and the fat cooked extra under the grill.

Not necessarily! It depends where you get it from. Our local supermarket has upped its game recently and their bacon is now a lot leaner than it used to be. Sprouts also has some decent bacon. That said, we have had some where I struggled to find any lean meat amongst the fat.

Count me in. I can enjoy almost all bacon, whilst I prefer crispy, and can take fatty too. But BA slimy - NO!

Fix it or replace it with something else.

What is exotic about black pudding?

I prefer medium done back bacon to streaky, but if it has to be streaky then most of the fat should be grilled out of it.

But what I would really like would be the return of the full breakfast that was served between GLA and LHR, back in the days when gthe ride was on a Vanguard.

I've found them to be pretty sad indeed. That in-flight bacon can't be perfect, I understand, but in the lounges there are no excuses!

I'm always amused by the americanism of "Canadian bacon". Typical bacon in Canada is streaky bacon, the same as in the USA. If you go to a grocery store in Canada and look for "Canadian bacon" you won't find any such thing. There is back bacon, which is sort of like the leanest part of UK bacon, and a few specialist butchers cut UK style bacon, but it is very expensive.

In MAN there seems to be no bacon roll option in the BA lounge, so I go the T3 Escape lounge for a perfect bacon bap then return to the quieter BA lounge and perhaps some fizz. If a priority pass lounge can offer a good quality bacon sandwich I don't understand why BA can't (even when it is available).

No bacon rolls in the NCL lounge either. The ultimate evidence of London Airways.

Don't you have to make up your own breakfast roll in the new LBA lounge?

I was going to add, what are these lounge bacon rolls people speak of? It's either croissants, porridge, bruised bananas or kettle crisps for me in the mornings.

Given the pax/space ratio in the NCL lounge you'd think they could do better - especially given how status-heavy the route sometimes seems to be (appeared to be more group 1s than 2/3s on some recent hops).

The Albertsons at Warm Springs and Rainbow. That said, the Sprouts on the opposite side of Rainbow is still much better and more consistent with its bacon.

I agree with this. I really do wish that the NCL lounge could do something more substantial in the mornings. I have started visiting the Aspire lounge instead where I can get a sausage sandwich etc. when I am on an early flight. They have a pretty decent hot food offering in the morning (the only time I have visited so far, so no idea what is served up for lunch or tea) and I am rather partial to a sausage stottie (although the floured bap isn't a proper Greggs stottie unfortunately - a bigger shame as there's a Greggs at NCL).