In news:rec.food.cooking, Ranee at Arabian Knits >
posted on Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:47:27 -0700 the following:

> In article >,
> Damaeus > wrote:
>
> > I don't even like the premade bacon bits, especially not the imitation
> > ones. I like it crispy. I just continue to fry my own bacon, and I'll
> > just break strips into pieces and drop them on my potato soup.
>
> I don't like breaking them up after they are fried. I use my kitchen
> shears to cut up the bacon as it goes into the pan. Then, when I'm
> finished, it is cooked and already in little bits.

Might not be a bad idea. I do cut the layers of bacon in half before
frying them, just so they can be manipulated in the pan more easily. I
might try cutting them into one-inch pieces, but I figured such small
pieces would be more difficult to arrange in a single layer.

Damaeus