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Chris Higgins
The Bacon Explosion
by Chris Higgins - January 28, 2009 - 3:27 PM

The Bacon ExplosionToday’s cultural milestone: The Bacon Explosion, a piece in the New York Times about the proliferation of food blogging on the internet. New technology has provided a mechanism for rapid dissemination of recipes, causing food to “go viral,” spreading around the world more rapidly than ever before. And what’s more, online food writing is becoming a staple of our media landscape — just last week I pointed to 12 Meals or Bust, a story from So Good, my favorite food blog. Anyway, back to the Times, here’s a bit on the titular food (with some emphasis added):

This recipe is the Bacon Explosion, modestly called by its inventors “the BBQ Sausage Recipe of all Recipes.” The instructions for constructing this massive torpedo-shaped amalgamation of two pounds of bacon woven through and around two pounds of sausage and slathered in barbecue sauce first appeared last month on the Web site of a team of Kansas City competition barbecuers. They say a diverse collection of well over 16,000 Web sites have linked to the recipe, celebrating, or sometimes scolding, its excessiveness. A fresh audience could be ready to discover it on Super Bowl Sunday.

…[the Bacon Explosion's inventor] bought about $20 worth of bacon and Italian sausage from a local meat market. As it lay on the counter, he thought of weaving strips of raw bacon into a mat. The two spackled the bacon mat with a layer of sausage, covered that with a crunchy layer of cooked bacon, and rolled it up tight.

Read the rest for the story of an epic internetborne foodsplosion. If bacon isn’t your thing, check out Gordon Ramsay making “perfect” scrambled eggs. Now get to lunch, people! (But first, care to share your favorite food stories or recipes in the comments?

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Comments (9)

  1. I’m there. Of course, a simpler heart-attack meal can be achieved by weaving 1 pound of bacon, frying it up, and then putting cheese in the middle.

    I’m going to try it, and also add scrambled egg before rolling it. Little slices of heaven.

    posted by Stephen on 1-28-2009 at 4:39 pm

  2. I love bacon, REALLY love it, but I’m not sure I’d wanna eat that.

    Bacon and BBQ sauce does nothing for me. And diluting the swiney-goodness of bacon w/ sausage leaves me nonplussed.

    posted by jonny on 1-28-2009 at 5:30 pm

  3. Mmmmm bacon…. Here’s 2 other things you can do with bacon:
    Bacon candy: Roll (smoosh in) brown sugar and bake it in the oven until done.

    Or, take bacon, and salt pepper and flour it before baking until done. It doesn’t shrink nearly as much, and is fantastic.

    Boy howdy I love me some bacon…

    posted by Vickey on 1-28-2009 at 6:15 pm

  4. i had a heart attack just reading the recipe

    posted by jgodsey on 1-28-2009 at 8:30 pm

  5. Yeah, baking bacon is the best thing. Put it flat on a little raised broiler pan so that the excess grease can stay off the bacon and bake at about 375 to your preferred level of doneness. (I prefer mine a little short of crispy) It stays flat for sandwiches, etc.

    posted by Kieran on 1-29-2009 at 12:36 am

  6. How odd that you ran this article today. I went to make BLT’s for breakfast this morning only to find that my room mate had picked up maple flavored bacon. IDIOT! I can’t even imagine what maple and tomato would taste like. Oh the sadness, I was really wanting that BLT.

    posted by Cynthia on 1-29-2009 at 12:51 pm

  7. I made Ramsey’s eggs this morning. . . not bad though I personally prefer my eggs a bit more firm.

    posted by Josh on 1-29-2009 at 1:20 pm

  8. Try buying a can of cinnamon rolls, unraveling them, and re-rolling them with bacon inbetween. You need to cook the bacon about halfway first to ensure that it’s cooked all the way when it comes out of the oven. Cook the rolls as directed on the package and add icing. MMMMMmmmmmmm.

    posted by Princeton on 1-29-2009 at 3:32 pm

  9. You can attend a webinar with the BBQ Addicts guys coming Tuesday, April 7th 2009 11:00am (PT) and learn how they did this Social Marketing phenomenon. Hosted by Marketbright ( Marketing Automation Software)

    posted by Erik Bower on 3-4-2009 at 2:16 am

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