In news:rec.food.cooking, Doug Freyburger > posted on
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:17:04 +0000 (UTC) the following:

> Damaeus wrote:
>
> > I once made my own bacon bits. It's amazing how little bacon you end
> > up with after you cook a whole package, then put the strips in the
> > food processor to make them into "bits". It was like some of the
> > matter was converted to energy, which then floated off into the
> > aether. I felt like I got three tablespoons of bacon bits from a
> > whole package of bacon.
>
> Cooked bacon is somehow porous. If you put it through a food processor
> it can collapse. Doing it by hand the bits are crumbled, a less intense
> process. I bet the processed powder is intense.

Well, I didn't grind it to a powder, but just until they were crumbs about
the size of BBs and pellets.

Damaeus