+Fin H The favoured type in Australia is Shortcut, which is the streaky tail chopped off so it's just the big round eye of meat with a little fat that can be easily pealed off. Strip bacon is a lot cheaper but also shit and usually used for dicing.
+Ben Kuyt I peal the fat rim off eye bacon so it's just the meat and only sear it very lightly. Don't get people that want a load of chewy fat and salt that tastes bloody awful.
+Piperde Except for when we cook for people that aren't vegetarian/vegan. Whenever I cook for other people I just throw bacon in it and they think I'm a Master Chef. :P
Hey Mike J. The instructions tell you that you're supposed to spray some cooking spray onto a paper towel, then wipe down the bowl with it to keep the bacon from sticking. Yes, you heard me right. I don't get it, either. I don't know if you got the instructions on this, but I figured it would help to have that one detail when you revisit this item.
I think the problem is it's made to be not as cooked at he's doing it. If you look at the advertisement none of the bowls look like that meaning that he's over cooking it. it looks really ify and the internet has better ways of making a bacon bowls.
Bacon Bow? Skyrim mods are betting out of hand. The bacon shrinks as it's cooked. That explains the hole. If you use more bacon strips and overlap them then that should solve it.
You can pile on as much bacon as you want and still end up with a gap if all you do is put it on top of each other. Since bacon shrinks when it's being cooked, common sense would tell you to put a strip of bacon on the opposite side of the one that makes the sides of the bowl, thereby making sure that the ends of the bacon are covered up.
nujevad28 When I said "overlap" I implied exactly what you said. I assumed everyone would be intelligent to get my meaning without me having to do a step by step guide for it. Thanks for going to the trouble, but I don't think it's necessary. ta
Using this with back bacon would probably work pretty well but using sliced rashers is obviously not a good idea. Although if you screwed it into the wall and put some foam or rubber over the bowl part you'd have a fantastic doorstop.
I was thinking that cooking spray might help it come off in one piece, but I'm pretty sure bacon grease should be a good enough lubricant. Maybe putting foil over it would let you flip it over, then peel the foil out from the inside.
It shrinks because of the added water. You'd need to add more than you think and fold it back on itself so you don't get the flappy bits that hung over the side.
You'd think the bacon would have enough fat to keep from sticking. Though I agree that some grease might help. Ultimately this is a stupid product, though.
Jews, Muslims, Vegetarians, Vegans, people with a pig for a pet... I'm thinking an upside down muffin tin would work just as well for this. Also it's pretty clear that Mike should have wrapped two pieces of bacon around the side to get rid of that gap, the one slice is shrinking when it cooks and leaves the gap. I imagine he addresses this in his revisited.
This seems to be a product which only works in america. They have spray on butter that you'd need. otherwise the bacon will stick on this cheap bowl, just like you see it in this video. Or you can just do it like any other normal human being by melting butter and brushing it on with a rubber brush. but then you also need american "bacon" wich is basically a bunch of fat with bieces of meat.
You gotta use it in the oven oven..not the microwave oven. If they told you it could be used in a microwave I probably wouldn't even bother buying it. One could probably fabricate something to do this without actually buying a product specifically designed for it. Like maybe a turned over muffin baking tray sitting on a larger aluminum pan or something... In fact...I've got an idea!
In the commercial it looked like the piece you wrap right around the side is the bit that goes on last....when you did it you put the bit round the side then put another piece on what would be the bottom of the bowl...maybe if you follow the commercial exactly it may work?
i'd love to see the person who made the bowls in the commercial cos in the commercial they are perfect bowls, what did they do different to everyone else on youtube whos tried this.
There is a trick to microwaving bacon. You need anything plastic with ridges (to collect the grease) and do it on medium for like 11 minutes or so. Pan is still faster and better though.
I have seen it work before, and without the person greasing the BACON BOWL! but they had giant ass pieces of bacon and they took it off very carefully, so.
it looks like it needs to be greased before the bacon is applied, also I have a question to all Canadians, is bacon in Canada Canadian bacon or is Canadian bacon a separate thing?
I imagine some oil or cooking spray would help with it sticking, but at the same time I feel like a muffin tray would accomplish the same thing. In fact, I remember an old cookbook at my grandmothers that had recipes involving bacon in muffin trays to make a bowl. So... Why does this exist?
Mikeeeee you didn't spray non sticking spray an the reason it was open on one side is because you didn't wrap it around the other side! Please revisit this!!!
To make a bacon bowl is simple. All you need is a muffin pan. First flip your pan and wrap your bacon around the muffin pan. Put it on the first rack and another pan on the next rack to catch grease. Take it out when ready. If you use a microwave make sure you use a microwave glass dish with round like bottom. The plastic bowl thing is ridicules. If you leave a plastic item in a microwave long enough it will create a hole!!
What is with the internet and bacon? I like eating it too but how the did it become the meme that it is? Is it because of that Super Meal Show or whatever the hell they called it/
I love these vids. Back when I was broke and didn't have cable I saw a lot of infomercials and always wondered if the products worked or not.
I fail to see what is being acconplished by the bacon bowl form that an upside down muffin tray can't do better.
I fail to see why anyone would microwave bacon
The problem is its an American product and in America bacon is 90% fat. Without all the fat you have no way of keeping the bowl in tact.
Fin H The bacon we get is actually really lean. I've never seen a bacon with that much fat on it here.
+Piperde Really? Even here in Canada the packaged bacon we carry is as fatty as it was in the video.
SavannahDarlink Wow, I've never seen bacon with all that fat. I guess it's just around where I live
+Fin H The favoured type in Australia is Shortcut, which is the streaky tail chopped off so it's just the big round eye of meat with a little fat that can be easily pealed off. Strip bacon is a lot cheaper but also shit and usually used for dicing.
that's literally not what it is lmao, please stop trying to get brownie points hating america.
I don't like crunchy bacon. I prefer it to be a little fatty so it has more taste.
+Ben Kuyt I peal the fat rim off eye bacon so it's just the meat and only sear it very lightly.
Don't get people that want a load of chewy fat and salt that tastes bloody awful.
Patrick B Also don't get people that act like semi-genuine incredulity at differences is strange.
+Ben Kuyt yeah, bacon needs a little fat, when it's crunchy, it has taste, but not a bacon flavor
+David Kerns I think another name for that is Pork Rinds
"Everybody loves bacon!"
"Vegans."
+Piperde vegetarians too,
trueloveis4u Very true :)
+Piperde Except for when we cook for people that aren't vegetarian/vegan. Whenever I cook for other people I just throw bacon in it and they think I'm a Master Chef. :P
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"Everybody loves bacon!"
"Muslims like me."
Sometimes i think commercials hate muslims.
Well, that is some interesting way of selling inverted muffin pans.
Did anyone else notice the exact same 1980's cartoon crunch sound effect whenever someone bit into the bacon bowls?
'Mike Jeavons - A week on food eaten exclusively out of bacon bowls'
This needs to be your next series!
The poor lad might have a one too many hospital check ups.
you would better off with a cupcake tin. like one of those bug cup size muffin ones.
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Hey Mike J. The instructions tell you that you're supposed to spray some cooking spray onto a paper towel, then wipe down the bowl with it to keep the bacon from sticking. Yes, you heard me right. I don't get it, either. I don't know if you got the instructions on this, but I figured it would help to have that one detail when you revisit this item.
You don't get the concept of cooking spray?
They mean that you need to grease something that cooks bacon... Which produces so much grease that it comes with a built in grease catcher.
Basic cooking skills should tell you to use cooking spray or butter.
Blackspawn20 He believe that the bacon should have natural cooking grease due to all the grease in the bacon.
orlock20 Yeah, but that wouldn't normally be enough, even on just a regular broiling rack.
The looks you give Mike when tearing off the Bacon pieces is gold...
"I have no idea how long I should [microwave this]" You do read the instructions, right?
Weren't you the guy that commented saying that burgers should be made with an egg and breadcrumbs? Dumbass.
Your face.
It's hilarious how they used the exact same crunch sound fx for every single person.
Try greasing the thing with butter to prevent sticking.
It's bacon... don't you think there is ENOUGH grease?
I think the problem is it's made to be not as cooked at he's doing it. If you look at the advertisement none of the bowls look like that meaning that he's over cooking it. it looks really ify and the internet has better ways of making a bacon bowls.
'everybody loves bacon'
'jews'
Im crying from laughter.
Lol...
Imagine the shit he would have got had he said Muslims .... who actually don’t touch pork at all ...
Has anyone really ever laughed at anything on youtube ???
Jews probably love bacon too to be fair. I'm pretty sure that's why they crucified Jesus cause they were pissed off about not being allowed bacon
jonny bowerbank I thought the Romans did it since he seemed like a cult leader to them.
Bacon Bow? Skyrim mods are betting out of hand.
The bacon shrinks as it's cooked. That explains the hole. If you use more bacon strips and overlap them then that should solve it.
Betting?
Keenan Meurs Curse whoever put the B and G next to each other on keyboards!
You can pile on as much bacon as you want and still end up with a gap if all you do is put it on top of each other. Since bacon shrinks when it's being cooked, common sense would tell you to put a strip of bacon on the opposite side of the one that makes the sides of the bowl, thereby making sure that the ends of the bacon are covered up.
nujevad28
When I said "overlap" I implied exactly what you said. I assumed everyone would be intelligent to get my meaning without me having to do a step by step guide for it. Thanks for going to the trouble, but I don't think it's necessary. ta
Yes, apparently someone actually said "I've got a great idea for an invention; make a small pan with a bump in the middle to wrap bacon around."
repackaged juicer... nice... try it with grapefruit!
tired of grapefruit...try it in a bacon bowl *crunch*
Using this with back bacon would probably work pretty well but using sliced rashers is obviously not a good idea.
Although if you screwed it into the wall and put some foam or rubber over the bowl part you'd have a fantastic doorstop.
Can we make a cheese bowl with this?
Thats a excellent question. Now just supply the cheese in your wonderful bags and we will see..
Get some of those cheese out of those cellophane bags then. chop chop.
Recently I saw these in a dollar store here in Florida. I figured they weren't worth a dollar, and this confirms it.
Definitely one of your funniest videos yet! Your timing was great, and I loved the "Jews" bit. Keep it up!
When he said "back bacon" I immediately thought "that's not back bacon! That's your back bakin'!"
Mike did manage to fill his bacon bowls with delicious disappointment
"Everybody loves bacon"
"Jews"
I laughed hard XD
You can do the same thing in a muffin tin. Really easy to turn out if you have one of those silicone muffin trays.
I was thinking that cooking spray might help it come off in one piece, but I'm pretty sure bacon grease should be a good enough lubricant. Maybe putting foil over it would let you flip it over, then peel the foil out from the inside.
It shrinks because of the added water. You'd need to add more than you think and fold it back on itself so you don't get the flappy bits that hung over the side.
3:33-"Bundtoastsy Baybacon Bowbowl on the top!"
I've done bacon in the microwave before. It's how my mom would cook it. Easier in a pan, but less grease if you do it right with the microwave.
A little cooking spray spritzed on the middle part might help with the sticking.
You'd think the bacon would have enough fat to keep from sticking. Though I agree that some grease might help. Ultimately this is a stupid product, though.
3:34 Fun soasty bebacon ball bowl on the toh
Jews, Muslims, Vegetarians, Vegans, people with a pig for a pet...
I'm thinking an upside down muffin tin would work just as well for this. Also it's pretty clear that Mike should have wrapped two pieces of bacon around the side to get rid of that gap, the one slice is shrinking when it cooks and leaves the gap. I imagine he addresses this in his revisited.
If bacon made a noise when I bit into it like it did in the commercial I would throw out the whole pack.
I think the most egregious thing about the infomercial was the added crunch sound.
I remember watching these. good memories Mike :)
this advert must say "bacon bowl" 753 times
Bacon spinning round-round baby, round-round, like a record spinning round-round, round-round...
This seems to be a product which only works in america.
They have spray on butter that you'd need. otherwise the bacon will stick on this cheap bowl, just like you see it in this video.
Or you can just do it like any other normal human being by melting butter and brushing it on with a rubber brush.
but then you also need american "bacon" wich is basically a bunch of fat with bieces of meat.
At 2:00 I was just like 'yeah that's why I'm vegetarian'.
The women in the commercial....she wasn't wearing mittens....
The only thing I'd fill that bacon bowl with is Disappointment.
The internet has ruined bacon for me
Brad Grimm The internet has made bacon BETTER for me! (and I love bacon, but don't get it that much.)
You gotta use it in the oven oven..not the microwave oven. If they told you it could be used in a microwave I probably wouldn't even bother buying it. One could probably fabricate something to do this without actually buying a product specifically designed for it.
Like maybe a turned over muffin baking tray sitting on a larger aluminum pan or something...
In fact...I've got an idea!
you should put a link for patreon in the description or as an annotation.
In the commercial it looked like the piece you wrap right around the side is the bit that goes on last....when you did it you put the bit round the side then put another piece on what would be the bottom of the bowl...maybe if you follow the commercial exactly it may work?
I find it really hard to find streaky bacon here in the UK but it seems to be the only thing Americans eat!
It is in most supermarkets and butchers.
i never see it in super markets
***** Look harder. In 90% of UK supermarkets, it's right there next to the back bacon. I buy it sometimes as it's on offer more often than back bacon.
Well definitely isn't in the one near me because i looked
***** What supermarket are you using?
i'd love to see the person who made the bowls in the commercial cos in the commercial they are perfect bowls, what did they do different to everyone else on youtube whos tried this.
I get the feeling they used twice as much bacon so the split would be covered.
Turn muffin tray upside down. Done
There is a trick to microwaving bacon. You need anything plastic with ridges (to collect the grease) and do it on medium for like 11 minutes or so. Pan is still faster and better though.
I've found that you can just wrap the bacon in paper towel and it works pretty well -- and cooks in 3ish minutes.
I love the "this is what we call this in the UK" segments he has.
Am I the only one who thinks that the Bacon Bowl mould looks JUST like a cheap fruit juice squeezer thingy?
should spray it with non stick cooking spray. and cut the parts on top in half lol
"do you know what I'm gonna put in my bacon bowl? more bacon! " lol :-P
ill stick with the epic meal time technique for bacon structures
All I gleaned from this is that I fancy some bacon.
Mom cooks bacon in the microwave all the time but it takes longer than a minute. About 7 to 9 minutes.
I kept wondering why the sellers didn't explain that you need oiling or something. O.o
I have seen it work before, and without the person greasing the BACON BOWL! but they had giant ass pieces of bacon and they took it off very carefully, so.
Four bacon bowls of macaroni cheese for one person, the "perfect portion".
In the microwave it's 1 minute for every strip of bacon, Mike. Also, use non-stick spray to make it pop off.
God damn it, cover the base with butter so that you can easily slip the bacolicious bacon out.
I think you're supposed to grease it first. That's why it was stuck to it.
it looks like it needs to be greased before the bacon is applied, also I have a question to all Canadians, is bacon in Canada Canadian bacon or is Canadian bacon a separate thing?
I think it's the back bacon like he was talking about but we call it Canadian bacon.
Be careful Mike, it might break your microwave oven door...
I imagine some oil or cooking spray would help with it sticking, but at the same time I feel like a muffin tray would accomplish the same thing.
In fact, I remember an old cookbook at my grandmothers that had recipes involving bacon in muffin trays to make a bowl.
So... Why does this exist?
This video was baconriffic, thanks!
Upside down cupcake pan = multipurpose bacon bowl.
as Mr weebl says, pork is the meat of kings, it's made of swine that's why it tastes so fine
So its an upside down bowl, why would I buy this when I can just turn a bowl upside down and fuck my Bacon up all the same?
You should try some cooking spray on the thing so the bacon won't stick
Mikeeeee you didn't spray non sticking spray an the reason it was open on one side is because you didn't wrap it around the other side! Please revisit this!!!
It looks like a cool sports car
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I actually don't like bacon by itself. But it's great on sandwiches!
You're mad. Mad I say!
Dave R I could make an Alice in Wonderland comment here. But I don't wanna be THAT person.
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To make a bacon bowl is simple. All you need is a muffin pan. First flip your pan and wrap your bacon around the muffin pan. Put it on the first rack and another pan on the next rack to catch grease. Take it out when ready. If you use a microwave make sure you use a microwave glass dish with round like bottom.
The plastic bowl thing is ridicules. If you leave a plastic item in a microwave long enough it will create a hole!!
Mike, you might wanna edit the links on your youtube to link over to your blip. Mikejeavons.com isn't working for some reason :c
Mike, if you have one then try making a bacon bowl in a halogen fan assisted oven.
One of these www.amazon.co.uk/Coopers-Halogen-Oven/dp/B001OBPPLI
are you coating the mold with a cooking spray before applying the bacon?
have you added fat or oil onto the metal thing?
The steamy Spy its not metal.....
...you mean the fat the bacon has...
cookie dough replaces the bacon and ice cream replaces the eggs
maybe spray it with different non stick sprays
To be fair a bowl made of bacon sounds awesome.
What is with the internet and bacon? I like eating it too but
how the did it become the meme that it is? Is it because of
that Super Meal Show or whatever the hell they called it/
We should make an actual effort to make baconrific a thing. Starting and ending with bacon.
I...think I'll have the salad.
"Pile on the toppings!" and the cholesterol.
There is microwave bacon, assuming they meant that.
could you not just use an upside down cake/muffin tin?
Are these infomercial announcers even human?
They're the disembodied corpses of the enemies of the state, being plugged into a vocoder which screams their inner most thoughts to reality.
When you realize the your basically playing with a dead pig and trying to turn it into a bowl. Just cook the damn thing and eat it.
"That".
"You're".
Good content as always but you need to invest in a clip on microphone so we can hear you more clearly
Donate :P
Spray the mould with cooking spray
I reckon you need dry cure bacon - normal supermarket bacon is so full of water it will just shrink every time.
Whoa back bacon! bamalam Whoa back bacon Bambalam. Back Bacon had a child ! BAM BALAM!!
does anyone know what happens if you make a baconbowl of back bacon?
Its not crunchy Mike, its crunchable yum
At first I thought she said, "Everybody LOVES baking"
"Jews"
;)
underrated, dude
Burning Noodles [RO] Bacon
Im pretty positive that HE is a male
LOL!
Make a sausage bowl...then we'll talk.