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Christine Dabney

On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 12:33:20 -0500, Alan wrote:

>>> Nancy2 wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'd be curious to know why national branded bacon is $5/pound, right
>>>> here in the middle of pork country. (Store brand is half that, but
>>>> typically unsatisfactory in quality.)
>>>
>>> Oscar Mayer is my bacon of choice. Last time I bought it I paid maybe
>>> $3.00 a package??
>>
>>$1.60lb at CostCo (in a 4-pack). This stuff cooks up too thin. I
>>think it's adulterated/pumped-up somehow (err...more than most
>>bacon, that is).
>>
>>-sw
>
>It runs from US $3.49 to $5.99 where I shop.
>
>I don't usually buy bacon, but that seems a little high, to me.
>
>Alan Moorman

I see a range of prices for bacon here. I have been buying Farmland
bacon here, as I saw it was judged as the best tasting supermarket
bacon, on America's Test Kitchen... I can go to one store, and pay
about $4/pound..and to another store and pay $3/pound for it. And
everything in between at other stores.

I have been reading the thread on charcuterie, on eGullet, and that
thread has convinced me to start making my own bacon as money loosens
up a bit...and I can afford to buy a smoker. Evidently the bacon
method in the book Charcuterie, by Michael Ruhlman is superb, and
produces a top notch bacon...to die for, as some have expressed.

For those interested in the thread:
http://forums.egullet.org/index.php?showtopic=79195

Christine