Posted on 05/27/2014 3:02:11 PM PDT by kingattax
What is it about cooking bacon that makes it smell so good? The Reactions team puts its nose into everyone’s favorite breakfast food. We teamed up with the Compound Interest blog to break down the science of that sweet smell.
Turns out there are about 150 volatile organic compounds that contribute to bacon’s meaty aroma, many of them hydrocarbons and aldehydes, with some nitrogen-containing compounds thrown in for good measure.
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Kilgore: Smell that? You smell that?
Lance: What?
Kilgore: Bacon, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that.
[kneels]
Kilgore: I love the smell of bacon in the morning. You know, one time we cooked bacon, for 12 hours. The smell, you know that bacon smell, the whole hill. Smelled like
[sniffing, pondering]
Kilgore: breakfast.
I love posole!
Ever see that movie Ravenous?
If not, it should be on your list. It’s on Netflix.
I hear no one is separated by more than six degrees from bacon. I hope that’s true; universal access to breakfast meat has to be a good thing.
We “infidels” love bacon.
Muzzies HATE bacon and hurl protests & threats at restaurants for merely eminating the smell of bacon cooking.
That plus 9-11 what else do you need to know about the “ROP”?
If waterboarding is baptism for muslims, then bacon must be the bread of communion. Don’t ask me what the wine is though.
Fried bacon.
“If we had some bacon we could have bacon and eggs...if we had some eggs.”
His nose flaring out from underneath that Magneto helmet? HILARIOUS!!
And 3:30 the dinner buffet was set up, this meant a strafing run for a few freshly-baked chicken legs, yum!
Lastly, take a few slices cooked bacon, nuke 'em super-crispy, wrap 'em in plastic wrap, run 'em over with a rolling pin and mix the fine crumbles with mayo! Homemade baconnaise! Great on everything.
Bacon smells good because Muslims don’t eat it...we need to make a ‘bacon smell’ bomb. When we drop it, Muslim will run because they think someone is cooking bacon...
Chicken fried bacon with bacon gravy over bacon infused mashed potatoes.
Because bacon is a gift from God.
Why does bacon smell good? because it’s made from bacon? Come on! Do I have to do all the thinking around here?
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