My love for bacon has once again led me to another strange, interesting, and DELICIOUS bacon product. Everyone knows about my love for bacon. I get plenty of great emails, tweets, facebook wall posts, and IMs from friends and family asking me if I've heard of the latest new fangled bacon product.
From bacon alarm clocks to bacon bandages, if it involves bacon I want to know about it. Well the latest bacon buzz has been all about...
Bacon Jam
The best way to describe Bacon Jam is to think of bacon all shredded up in a food processor and then flavored with onions and spices. Its not a liquid but it's also not quite a solid. It's more like a spread. Or maybe a pâté? It tastes like a cross between beef jerky and a pulled pork sandwich, all mixed together with a tangy, but sweet, BBQ sauce. It's as if a strip of bacon and a pulled pork sandwich got into a wrestling match in one of those kiddie pools filled with BBQ sauce - with delicious results.
Can you imagine it?
You might not think it looks delicious, but trust me, looks can be deceiving.
I wasn't sure of the best way to try it, so I created a poll and asked my loyal readers what I should slather it on first and a big juicy hamburger won the poll, taking 60% of the votes!
The people had spoken so I decided that's how I would try it. But I have to be honest, I couldn't resist taking a small bite straight outta the jar before slathering my burger in it's bacony goodness.
WOW! Bacony, barbaquey, pulled porky, beef jerky-y goodness!! It was so good straight up that I couldn't wait to try it on a burger.
I used a kaiser bun, with a lean ground beef patty, topped with ketchup, mustard, mozzarella cheese, tomato, lettuce, and the pièce de résistance... a one inch thick layer of Bacon Jam slathered on the top bun.
Eating it almost brought tears of joy to my eyes. The bacon to burger ratio was the best part. With a normal bacon cheeseburger you don't always get bacon in every bite. With Bacon Jam, the bacon coverage was seamless. A bacon lovers dream. Totally amazing.
If you want to try it for yourself check out skillet street food's website. Be warned, it took almost a month for mine to arrive. Of course I did buy it during the busy Christmas season and I believe skillet street food is a small company. Thankfully it was worth the wait!
Please note: I was NOT paid and did NOT receive any free products for this review. I am not affiliated with skillet street food but would gladly be!
