Anyone found REAL GOOD BACON sold via 'hand slicing?'' (PK area)
It has to be hickory-smoked - NOT the Leppä/Alder wich is the ubiquitous smoking wood in Finland.
The shop bacon in plastic is always a crap-shoot - if not often lousy tasting the plastic hides big batches of fat. Also they are very thin-sliced.
I try to eat bacon only once-in-while so if more expensive, fine - as long as it really is good.
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Re: Bacon
Have you checked meat sellers in market halls, or e.g. http://www.wotkins.fi/myymalat/ ? Those would be the first places I'd ask.
Re: Bacon
Have asked at Hakaniemi - no luck - will have to do systematic search there.
Wotkinss - IMO - has gotten the HK disease - used to be really trying on quality. Long gone - Veijo has not been as involved. I've actually been with him on 'tasting runs.' Some guys there now think the answer to everything is chili and garlic.
Wotkinss - IMO - has gotten the HK disease - used to be really trying on quality. Long gone - Veijo has not been as involved. I've actually been with him on 'tasting runs.' Some guys there now think the answer to everything is chili and garlic.
Re: Bacon
Got hold of Prisma - they asked what brand.
But did suggest:
https://www.foodie.fi/entry/hk-150-g-en ... 9100057275
Quite a price though!! 14-15€ kg - but that's one way to cut down on Nitrite consumption
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It's HK - reminds me of when in 80's they started to sell 'Amerikkalainen Pekoni' - as no such yet available in FI - neither UK style. Found it was smoked with the hard and aggressive 'leppä' - which of course is nothing like hickory sweet-smoking. I spoke to HK product manager to tell it was hardly 'American-style' and he said he had no idea what bacon was sold in US-UK - they just thought 'Amerikkalainen' would be good 'marketing' name. OMG.
Maybe they've now traveled a bit more
But did suggest:
https://www.foodie.fi/entry/hk-150-g-en ... 9100057275
Quite a price though!! 14-15€ kg - but that's one way to cut down on Nitrite consumption
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It's HK - reminds me of when in 80's they started to sell 'Amerikkalainen Pekoni' - as no such yet available in FI - neither UK style. Found it was smoked with the hard and aggressive 'leppä' - which of course is nothing like hickory sweet-smoking. I spoke to HK product manager to tell it was hardly 'American-style' and he said he had no idea what bacon was sold in US-UK - they just thought 'Amerikkalainen' would be good 'marketing' name. OMG.
Maybe they've now traveled a bit more
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Re: Bacon
harryc wrote: I try to eat bacon only once-in-while so if more expensive, fine
You must both find it difficult to winharryc wrote:Quite a price though!! 14-15€ kg
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Re: Bacon
No - it's OK - just letting people know that the protective price mechanism is working in their favor - health-wise
The next goal is to hope there'll be a breakthrough with good-tasting bacon without nitrites/nitrates
-- and I said I don't mind if it is higher priced and REAL GOOD - let's see if this is the stuff PJG pointed to
The next goal is to hope there'll be a breakthrough with good-tasting bacon without nitrites/nitrates
-- and I said I don't mind if it is higher priced and REAL GOOD - let's see if this is the stuff PJG pointed to