Sweet sweet mother of God. This looks amazing. I am picking up some bacon on the way home tomorrow. Kind of thinking I really should have some bacon on hand at all times anyway.
Yikes… I’m cringing at the thought of that. Might as well mix in some ground hop pellets while you’re at it. I do enjoy a top-end 99-100% cacao dark chocolate from time to time, but that does seem like a great way to ruin some good bacon.
But with a good dark chocolate in the 50-70% cacao range it is one of the pinnacles of gluttony.
Went to a food & beer pairing diner tuesday. The desert was a Chocolate stout brownie that had a piece
of bacon dipped in chocolate on top. It was a semi-sweet chocolate and the bacon was much better than the brownie.
I’ve had it with dark chocolate, and I came to the same conclusion. To me, the flavors don’t play well together. I don’t like black IPA’s for the same reason.
I made this the other day. When I showed it to my wife, I swear she teared up. I tried to figure out if the tears were from the sheer beauty of candied bacon or from the feeling of jealousy caused by me declaring it the most beautiful thing I have ever seen…but then it really didn’t matter….I had candied bacon to eat.
Seriously, I used Schlenkerla marzen on thick cut bacon and we both loved it. Thanks for posting! Crappy image from my phone: