You've Been Cooking Bacon WRONG Your Whole Life! Try These 45 Mountain Tricks

🔗 Grandma never wrote hers down, so I finally did. All 118 plus much more. Get em before they're gone: https://www.opalrowe.com Opal Rowe is eighty years old, and for forty years folks at the church breakfast asked what she did to her bacon. She smiled and never said. In this one she counts down 45 old mountain tricks for cooking bacon right, and the first ones stop the curl and the spatter at breakfast tomorrow. All the while eight thick strips sit in a crock on her kitchen table under a saucer, sunk down in something cold and white that cost her less than a dollar. If your bacon ever fried up tough and too salty to eat, that crock is the answer, and she finally lifts the saucer and tells you what is in it. In this one, Opal covers: • The three snips with the kitchen scissors that make a strip lay down flat • The little bit of plain water in a cold skillet that stops the spatter and the curl both • Why bacon gets crisp on the plate and not in the pan, and when to lift it out • Bacon baked in the biscuit, laid over the hen, wrapped around a trout, and dipped in batter and fried like chicken • What those eight strips have been layin in since nine o'clock last night, and how long to leave yours Tell Opal down in the comments where you are watching from, and who it was that fried the bacon in your house. Tell her what your people called it where you come from, side meat or streak meat or breakfast bacon, and if you can still smell it. Opal reads every last one. CHAPTERS 0:00 The Crock on Opal's Kitchen Table 1:49 Snip the Fat Before It Touches the Skillet 2:40 Pour Water in the Skillet With Your Bacon 3:35 Give Every Strip Its Own Room 4:24 Turn the Knob Down Further Than You Think 5:12 Start Today's Bacon in Yesterday's Grease 6:00 Take It Out Before It Looks Done 6:47 Feedin a Crowd, Leave the Skillet on Its Nail 7:41 Brown Sugar Bacon Belongs in the Oven 8:34 Turn It More Than They Tell You To 9:21 Lay Bacon Over the Hen 10:09 Bake the Bacon Inside the Biscuit 10:56 Pick the Skillet to Fit the Bacon 11:45 Grease the Skillet With the Bacon Itself 12:34 Bacon for the Bean Pot Comes Out Early 13:28 Pour the Grease Off Halfway Through 14:16 Lay Bacon Over Your Meatloaf the Long Way 15:04 Wrap a Strip Around a Dove Breast 15:59 Pack the Biscuit While Both Are Hot 16:46 Wrap Bacon Around a Trout 17:35 Crumble Bacon Into Your Dumplin Dough 18:23 Fry a Hoecake Before You Clean the Skillet 19:13 Bacon Dipped in Batter and Fried Like Chicken 20:05 Bring Yesterday's Bacon Back to Life 21:05 Bacon in the Cornbread 22:06 You Already Own a Bacon Press 23:03 Hot Bacon Dressing for Store Spinach 24:06 Move the Skillet, Not the Fire 25:10 Pour Your Coffee in the Skillet 26:09 Chocolate Gravy Off the Sunday Drippins 27:09 Fry Your Apples Where the Bacon Was 28:13 Fried Green Tomatoes in Bacon Grease 29:14 Tomato Gravy 30:14 Ramps Kilt in Hot Bacon Grease 31:15 Fry a Pinch Before You Trust Your Seasonin 32:15 How Sausage Kept All Winter With No Icebox 33:14 The Sweet Pickle, and Somethin She Had Wrong 34:16 Sweeten Your Smoke 35:16 Turn the Salt Box Over 36:13 Do Not Be Scared of the White Bloom 37:07 Let It Hang Through the July Sweat 38:07 The Tenderloin Is Eaten the First Night 39:05 Brains and Eggs 39:54 The New Year's Plate 40:53 The Crock She Kept From You — Uncovered 42:05 A Pair of Hands in the Dark