Backstory: There's a pie-baking contest going on at my school and my friend and I decided to make one using gratuitous amounts of bacon.
Attempt #1-
Pie = good
Bacon = good
Pie + Bacon = doubleplus good, right?
Wrong.
Pretty rudimentary attempt, little effort or culinary genius put into this one. Simply latticed regular bacon over a regular apple pie, this was the result:
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Tasted like balls. Total failure.
Attempt #2 (current)-
Shit just got serious. Invested in some thick expensive ass cut bacon, cinnamon and brown sugar (for the purpose of candying some or all of the bacon), and some "imported" (or so Giant Eagle claims) sharp cheddar cheese.
Here's the problem: Grease. Bacon grease, to be exact. We deduced that it was this that made our first attempt taste so horrible. We need to extract the bacon grease from the bacon, before baking it over our pie, without shrinking the bacon or making it too brittle (it needs to still be able to be formed into a lattice top for our pie and baked on without being overcooked). The only solutions I can find put the structural integrity of the bacon at risk. If anyone knows a way, please, we need your help.
Also, does anyone know a good recipe for really good candied bacon?
[b]SUCCESS[/b]
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It should be mentioned in Epic Meal Time
EMT was actually something of an inspiration for us (the bacon part, at least).
It seems like it could taste good if it was done right, pork and apples go well together.
What did you do for the filling? the apples look dry
Just deep fry bacon then slam it into a conventional meat pie.
"Bacon apple pie" I knew it wont be good and i dont think bacon will ever taste good with apples together.
I think it would be good. Crunchy and salty bacon with the soft and sweet apples.
[b]UPDATE[/b]
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This shit was delicious. Candying the bacon was the key.
I'm not sure about the cheese, but that looks amazing.
Interesting mixture...I'll have to try apple and candied bacon somethime :v:
Really don't want to change the subject but I'm in need of the thread where the guy latticed a whole pound of bacon together and fried it up. Anybody help me out?
