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  • The tasty delight I'm tackling now, it's a bacon sandwich.

  • My mate Pete swears by his version, and I swear by mine. We both start with white

  • bread. Well mine's got to be square I'm afraid. --Mine's got to be a bloomer, round.

  • And of course it's got to be streaky for me as well. --And for me gotta be smoked back

  • bacon, always. Let's do it. First of all, I always put the bacon into a cold pan.

  • No oil at all, so it cooks in its own fat. I turn it on really really low so it melts

  • before it colours, that's the most important thing. --Beautiful. --So what I'm

  • doing is just a little bit of oil in a pan, just to stop it sticking. I believe

  • the best way to cook bacon is under the grill. As it kind of blasts it, it does funny

  • things and it curls up, and the eye meat kind of creates this little cup that has

  • this like natural little pork, sort of gravy inside it. --The problem with that is

  • right, all of the bits have curled up and bubbled they're not going to get crisp

  • on the bottom. Get something to weigh it down with, you know just a little pan like that.

  • Okay, so actually mine's done Pete. --Yeah mine is, it's really nice and flat.

  • Next I assemble a sandwich before the final cook. --Ooh! --I've just got to have a

  • tiny bit of butter in the bread. That's right for me see, I don't like to take it

  • to the point where it's actually crisp and you can snap it. A perfect layer of bacon.

  • And I should pop it back in the pan. All that lovely bacon fat is just gonna pick

  • up in the bottom of the sandwich. Just to make sure the bottom is perfectly evenly

  • coloured, I sometimes put the weight on it. --Well let me tell you what happens to my

  • sandwich. I'm not gonna butter my bread. Take the bacon to one side. I'm just

  • gonna get my eating side there and clean off any of those bits here and push the

  • middle bit down so there's that lovely fry in there as well. --Oh yeah. Next stage

  • is the slicing. Bacon rashers are going that way, north to south, so that means

  • I slice east to west, giving you four fingers of Sandwich.

  • I'm gonna show you how technical mine is. Get a knife, go from one corner to one

  • corner and just cut it in half, and that's it. All we need now is a bit

  • of sauce for our sarnies. I love a bit of brown but Pete likes a mix of ketchup,

  • mustard, and chili sauce. Why don't I try a bit of yours, you try a bit of mine? --Yeah.

  • Yum, oh that's nice. All your fat is in the centre and it's delicious.

  • I like the difference of texture of the crispy, the soft, and then

  • the crispy again. So it's like triple pleasure. Thank You Pete, that was lovely!

  • It's a pleasure I enjoyed it. Same time tomorrow?

The tasty delight I'm tackling now, it's a bacon sandwich.

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