Bacon

[night_rider]

I'm looking for a nice breakfast bacon. I'm American so I'm looking for streaky, cured, smoked bacon. I also like peppered bacon. I've tried the supermarket offerings from CP and others and they're ok but I'm still looking.

 

Currently I'm looking at offerings from Laughing Monkey and Chiang Mai Gourmet and seeking comment or other suggestions.

 

Thanks.

[Havefunme]

They have Jones and Oscar Mayer in villa market next would be TKM 320 thb 1 kilo ( TKM is a store near Pattaya railway station) smoked or unsmoked next would be food mart 450 thb 1 kilo. 

[BritManToo]

Makro, about 5 different types in the meat cabinets and another 5 choices in the freezer.

Around 350bht/Kg.

[KhunLA]

I prefer from Makro, 1 kg packs in freezer case, about ฿199-239 maybe.   Won't be a familiar name, labelled smoked.

[night_rider]

Thanks. I have a Makro Express near me and I buy fruit there. I'll see what they have when I'm out.

 

[Reposed]

Bought a smoker at Home Pro, a number of bags of Applewood chips from Amazon, pork belly from Makro, and make my own.

 

No comparison to that found in a country where hotdogs are called breakfast sausage. ????

 

I toss in some homemade sausage to boot, to make full use of the chips.

 

And, it still comes out cheaper than Villa.

[CMBob]

Haven't been able to find really good bacon around CM for years.  The best bacon (just my opinion) in CM

is the bacon served by the various Dukes restaurants (thick, minimal fat, and a bit of a crunch as it's properly cooked). If we could only figure out where Dave buys it....

 

 

Edited May 12, 2022 by CMBob

[DeaconJohn]

Gunther's G&M brand is what tastes best to me.

Available [usually] at the Iron Bridge Rim Ping.

[BritManToo]

2 hours ago, DeaconJohn said:

Gunther's G&M brand is what tastes best to me.

Available [usually] at the Iron Bridge Rim Ping.

I've never noticed any difference, all bacon is good!

Edited May 12, 2022 by BritManToo

[night_rider]

555 I just left Big C. Next week.

[The Hammer2021]

3 hours ago, Reposed said:

Bought a smoker at Home Pro, a number of bags of Applewood chips from Amazon, pork belly from Makro, and make my own.

 

No comparison to that found in a country where hotdogs are called breakfast sausage. ????

 

I toss in some homemade sausage to boot, to make full use of the chips.

 

And, it still comes out cheaper than Villa.

Sounds great

[dingdongrb]

The next question, how to fix your bacon:

 

- Fry (stovetop)

 or

- Oven

[theDukes]

On 5/12/2022 at 1:15 PM, CMBob said:

Haven't been able to find really good bacon around CM for years.  The best bacon (just my opinion) in CM

is the bacon served by the various Dukes restaurants (thick, minimal fat, and a bit of a crunch as it's properly cooked). If we could only figure out where Dave buys it....

 

 

CM Gourmet. Best bacon American style around. We do use a thick cut. I think it’s a special order. 

Edited May 16, 2022 by theDukes

[Thailand]

Makro for me also plenty of choices.

[Mahseer]

Sausage King has half a dozen types of bacon including "American Style Dry Cured Streaky Bacon".

[night_rider]

Appreciate the recommendation on CM Gourmet. I'll give them a shot after I try Makro this week. 

 

Ditto on Sausage King. 

 

Definitely see a smoker in my future if I settle here.

[night_rider]

I'm not certain anyone will ever care about this to this degree but for posterity...

 

I tried Makro per the recommendations above. In the case were the usual brands all of which I've tried with the exception of Bangkok  Meats: TGM (best of the bunch), Arco, CP, Thai Butcher (?). Recommendations above said there were several frozen varieties and I had the hardest time finding them. I scoured the pork offerings to no avail and as I was about to give up found all the frozen bacon over in prepared meats far from the pork. Go figure. There were about 3-4 frozen and I selected the Pichaya brand. 271 per kilo but I selected it because it made my hands smell of smoke after holding the package. A good sign.

 

All of the brands are thin cut. Not finding any brands of peppered bacon, maple bacon or bacon with particular smoked woods (hickory, applewood, etc). I suspect I can at least get a thick cut moving to the specialty meats like Chiang Mai Gourmet.

 

I'll drop a note on the quality of the Pichaya after I've had a few rashers.

 

Edited May 21, 2022 by night_rider