How good is ASDA JUST ESSENTIALS Bacon? Food Comparison

[@Richiedagger87]

I’ve been watching these videos for the last week or so and as a American I’ve really been enjoying and found it very interesting seeing what food is like for y’all, so I’ve decided to subscribe! Thanks for the great content and entertainment! The only thing I hate is that I can’t try the food myself. We do have a store in my area called The British Emporium where they carry a lot of Imported British food although most of it is shelf stable foods in cans or jars and stuff like candy or chips plus they do have a very small freezer with frozen food mainly consisting of frozen meat pies, kippers, and one or two other items. I love going there but it’s quite expensive to import them all the way over here. When I was a kid in the early 90’s we used to go there with my grandpa who was born and lived in a small village in Wales so he loved going there and getting stuff that he hadn’t had since he was a young man! So British food and culture has a special place in my heart because of him and the fact that it’s 60% of my genetic heritage! 🇺🇸🇬🇧

[@mariellen8346]

I'm American and live in Wales! Do you know the name of the village? British food is nice and as I've been here 16yrs I'm quite used to it. I watch some American food channels and wonder wth is that lol I don't remember seeing that 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@DaleSteel]

I always felt sorry for Americans with that bacon they give you over there. To be fair Europe is the same. Britain is the only place that seems to get proper bacon not that streaky crap

[@xvsupremacy7190]

Boradar Derek 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 good to hear . I bet your grandad sang “Well keep a welcome in the hillside ….” Have you had larva bread ? And Welsh Pancakes cooked on the top of the stove ?

[@xvsupremacy7190]

@@DaleSteel have you been to India ? I had a bacon 🥓 sarnie at Goa airport in 2011 , it was gross !

[@DaleSteel]

@@xvsupremacy7190 no I haven't.

[@mikebashford8198]

I'm fortunate enough to have a traditional butcher 5 minutes walk from my house - the bacon he does is way superior to the local supermarkets (Tesco, Aldi, Lidl, Waitrose Sainsbury). It doesn't shrink much when you cook it, none of that fluid bubbling out, and you can buy just what you need, rather than a whole packet.

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Great pal

[@revengenerd1]

Same here for my butcher and not just bacon, things like burgers or steaks just don't shrink. The thing is about cheap/supermarket meat is it's bulked up with water and add salt as a preservative. I think for chicken if it looks shiny it means it has a lot of water in it for example to bulk it up.

[@CH-vb5kr]

Only after you mentioned buying from a traditional butcher, aside from one that specialises in made-on-the-premises sausages, I think all the butchers shops in the town where I live, have gone the way of the Dodo.

[@mickcy9954]

@@revengenerd1 Always check the meat content on any supermarket burgers/sausages, won't touch any that have less then 95%, and unfortunately local butchers don't always give the same precise values, therefore you don't have clue what exactly goes into them.

[@hiboo6012]

difference is, butchers sell organic, this crap is gmo yuk

[@SuperLittleTyke]

I was in Lidl on Tuesday and checked what I still needed from Tesco 8 miles away. Bacon. That was the only thing. So I decided to buy Lidl bacon instead and save myself 8 miles' worth of petrol. And I bought the Lidl cheap one for £1.25, just like the Just Essentials from ASDA. Even at Lidl I could have paid more to get the fancier packaging, but nope. I was determined to give the cheaper one a go. And it's delicious bacon! So it looks like I'll be buying my bacon from Lidl in future. The fancy packaging of the more expensive packs does make vacuum sealing easier. Because I am on my own I have to rewrap bacon, ham, cheese etc pretty well after opening, because the pack is open for longer. So for the past five years I've used a vacuum sealer. The life of the food can be extended by a week, no problem when it's vacuum packed after opening.

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

I've not tried that one sorry.

[@gaggymott9159]

🤩🤩🤩🤩❤❤❤

[@jshaw4757]

You mean the off Cutts the cooking bacon ?...lidles do a kilo pack (I think)..but its a huge pack sometimes small thin bits sometimes 4 giant slabs off bacon or a mix off both in the pack...but yh it's about £1.20 odd and 3 times cheaper than a normal pack bacon nothing wrong with it I make bacon sarnies and pasta dishes with it e.t.c

[@SuperLittleTyke]

@@jshaw4757 No, not cooking bacon, proper bacon for breakfast just like the Just Essentials from ASDA that Gareth reviewed in the video. However, in the past when I had to be much more frugal I did buy cooking bacon occasionally and it's perfectly edible. Probably not as healthy, though - although no bacon is truly healthy!

[@jshaw4757]

@@SuperLittleTyke Just bit more salt in it..can soak that out though...but main reason is coz off cuts you can't turn into nice slices like back bacon or streaky there is always gonna be left overs so that's your left over miss shapes not much difference...cheers

[@hopebgood]

With prices rocketing I'm well into finding cheaper nice versions of my faves. You just keep on making these vids Gareth mate!

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

thanks Si

[@philwarren8405]

Hi Gareth, just watched your bacon review video, and I was in Aldi yesterday, they are selling a 1kg pack of smoked, or unsmoked back bacon for £3.79, you get about 16 rashers which works out at just over 60grams each. The Asda essentials are about 37g, and the ordinary Asda are about 30g . I know people will say they won't use all that at once, we repack it into 4 rasher packs, which is what we use at a time, and freeze it. We like it a lot and it's good and thick. Farmfoods also do 600g packs of bacon, 3 for £6, but it is quite thin, but great for cooking in things like egg & bacon flans etc. Keep up the good work mate.

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Great Phil good to know cheers

[@iandeare1]

Off cut bacon, can be salty (it's usually a mix of smoked/unsmoked) and fatty... but, it's excellent for soup stock

[@jaydub2546]

When I buy bacon it's usually devoured within the day lol. I make crazy burger with 2 burgers 2 bacon onion rings and an egg with all the salad stuff. Usually BBQ sauce and encona hot sauce, amazing. I know it's not healthy but I can live off it haha

[@williammacdonald3327]

With you all the way on that! just about all my food is from aldi, and i really can't fault it.

[@lochamb1234]

@@jaydub2546 must be a Jay thing....my partner.. Jay does similar burgers only without "horrible rabbit food" ...his words, I'm veggie so I love rabbit food 🤣

[@mintyfrompolo]

I know that with the economy in the state it is, it's not easy, but l try to 'Buy British'. Not only to support our farmers, but l think British bacon is best. Also, the pigs are treated better here, than they are in Europe too, helps the flavour. If l can't afford the bacon, l wait until there's special offers, buy two packs and freeze one. Funny, once upon a time, a full English, was a breakfast, but for us, now, it's always a main meal. Thanks for making my mouth water and my stomach rumble. 😂😂

[@hazzard8760]

After years of buying bacon from Supermarkets, I changed a couple of years back to my local village butcher. The taste is a world away from the supermarkets. I had forgotten what proper bacon tasted like. Most of the supermarket stuff, is about as thin as they can slice it and shrivels to nothing when cooked how I like it and leaves a thick white deposit (nitrites .. bad for the vascular system) at the bottom of the pan after all the water that is pressured in the bacon at processing, boils off. You start with 3 slices that fill the plan until eventually you get 6 slices in the plan all shrivelled up that only take up half the pan. The butchers bacon may be more expensive off the shelf, but by the time you cook the supermarket stuff, there is very little of it left. and it is so salty.. Pound for pound in what you end up with in your sandwich, the butchers bacon is better value.. but its not easy to convince shoppers of that, as they base their purchase on what they see in the packet and the weight ( most of which is water in the supermarket stuff which boils away during cooking).. Keep up the excellent reviews Gareth.. You are getting a name for yourself and its all good..😄

[@anthonygraham8838]

I served my time as a Butcher, then to work in a factory environment processing meat for various markets. I only buy meat from my local butcher & fish from my fishmonger. Granted it's not as cheap but it's better quality but we don't eat it everyday. Often having a veggie day 2 or 3 days a week. Appreciate lots of folks don't have that choice, I really do (I've been there myself)

[@anthonygraham8838]

Most supermarket bacon / mass produced bacon is filled out with brine so essentially your paying for water! In fact, you would be surprised what's pumped up to gain weight (chicken breasts especially)

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Thank you very much, great comment.

[@LiamS0905]

that £1.25 bacon is great when you do it well done in an oven or air fryer, very crispy and tasty, i prefer it to the other one in comparison

[@mrsapplez2007]

Mum and dad always got the cheap back packs of cooking bacon. If you search for the backs with the smoked bacon in and rashers it's a bargain. Get it home, separate it out into freezer bags. Even when you get the hunks I just slice em down. Hubbz used to winder what the dickens I was doing when we first got together until I cut the food bill in nearly half by all the brand names and lil tricks. Keep up the good work Garath. Love seeing the channel grow.

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Thanks 👍👍

[@justarandum7959]

A bacon off. Absolutely quality content. Now this is important to every man out there 👌🏻

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Absolutely

[@stewartgovan1672]

Hi Gareth, thanks for another brill review. Both looked smoky and bacony lol. No difference really.. Its amazing how fast the supermarkets are bringing out these new ranges. What next?. The waitrose park bench gastro range supplied in the obligotary brown paper bag for eco resons. It could be a reality, the way these energy prices are rocketing its heading that way. Keep up the spot on work. Best wishes from Scotland.

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Thanks for watching!

[@edisontruro2729]

Been buying the essentials one for a few weeks now. Rashers vary in thickness and quantity. Last one I had was only 5 rashers but they were like gammon. Hard to gauge if you’re budgeting x amount for your family to last so long etc

[@annejones8777]

Hi ya. The cheap bacon is perfect for sarnies, or full English. I only really use bacon in other dishes....chopped up and fried with mushrooms for an omelette, or with spring onion as a topping for jacket potato, or in a pasta dish, that sort of thing so I get the packs of cooking bacon from asda for 79p. You get loafs in it, is a mixture of smoked and non smoked and is fab 🙂🙂

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Yes very good

[@MrInternet83]

I buy cooking bacon 🥓, it’s worth the money.

[@barrylunt7110]

Cracking review mate 👍, just slightly off track was told an old trick to help sell your house easy was to do fry some bacon and make fresh coffee 😃

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Yes good idea lol

[@GreenoEats]

I would have been unlikely to consider that value bacon previously, but it did actually look ok ! Hope it's ok to eat raw, cos none of us are going to be able to afford to put any gas under a pan this winter!!!

[@stewartroberts2983]

With the hot air coming from various political party's,the cooker is longer needed 😵😵😵

[@danm8004]

Starting in a dry (and cold!) pan is great for higher fat meats, I'd say it's more suited to streaky bacon than back bacon generally speaking. It's definitely the best way to do your 20% fat mince.

[@mothermelsmelts]

I’ve enjoyed watching this video I’m looking forward to seeing more subscribed I think the uk needs more videos like this

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Thank you very much, I appreciate it. All the best, Gareth 👍👍

[@Z4Man199]

We are thinking of buying an air fryer. Are they cheaper than using an over and what size in litres do u recommend?

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

ive only had this one got the ninja foodi max 7.5litre can cook a medium chicken in it in 45 mins cooked perfectly with crispy skin, ive done a video on it.

[@richardneale246]

Thanks Gareth for the review mate. Didn't know about the "dry" frying, will have a go at that next time. Cheers.

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Yes give it a go mate 👍

[@GaryAlanCohen]

Always enjoy your vids, thank you! If you run each piece under cold water just before cooking it doesn't shrink as much, just my two cents lol, have a good weekend!

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Cheers pal

[@gerrylewis5281]

We are becoming a Nation of American fast food eaters. I only have any interest for burgers when our community has a BBQ in the garden. Although the only good thing about a burger is you can build it your own personal taste. Stack it with salad that you like, add the sauce and mustard you like and add cheese you like. We are all different in what we like. A good review as always m8. The burger looked good for £1.50. Keep up the good work.

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Cheers Gerry

[@sparsh415]

I use smart price/just essentials Bacon and can recommend it.It`s not always uniformed rashers but tastes good+ more Economical.I also recommend their Cooking Bacon for 75p(500g).You can portion it off and freeze it. I grill it and use it as a Pizza topping(I buy a basic Cheese and Tomato Pizza 314g=66p and add my own toppings).

[@X22GJP]

I order Domino's.

[@sparsh415]

@@X22GJP I could also order Domino`s but have used all the cash I`ve saved to pay off my Mortgage and all my debts.

[@Matt19matt19]

I do the same with ham. I use ham slices and tear them up and add to the pizza. Pimps up a cheaper pizza.

[@sparsh415]

@@Matt19matt19 Sounds nice.

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Yes very good Chris indeed 👍👍

[@Iymarra]

Nice spotlight on this. A wee suggestion, perhaps using a small budget (£2, £3?) for day's worth of food, try and get a few different meals out of it. Might be prudent given way things are.

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Cheers Mara

[@jonnyy1495]

Subbed👍 Really like your videos honest and to the point. 😉

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

cheers Jonny i appreciate it.

[@alanbreeze9403]

I use to work in a Bacon Factory. Slaughter to Packaging. Then bacon was cured, first injected with brine then submerged for 48 hours in large tanks as sides of pigs.. The side were then stored for a further 48 hours to dry in a 1 degree cellar, before being cut into shoulder middle and gammon etc. Most if not all the bacon you buy today is cured in the sealed bag, which is why its full of the brine. That is what bubbles out as you cook it.

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Cheers for the information Alan

[@lindacarlton2467]

Hi me personally would go for the essentials as the way it's cut it fits in a sandwich better you can get away with two rashers the more expensive bacon looks like you might need three for good coverage so I'm thinking the cheaper one would make four sandwiches and the more expensive one you would only get three and one lonely rasher left over . Love your videos they are always so helpful 👍😁

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Cheers Linda thank you

[@ResonantSun17]

Both bacons look delicious Gareth. I would have to test both, to see if I like it thicker or thinner. Cheers Debra Melbourne Australia xxx

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Thanks x

[@TheUKMediaWatch]

Respect man 😎💚👍🏻💯 great review , I’ve been waiting for the bacon review

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Hope you like it!

[@jimleishman4652]

I've just subscribed to the channel. Your doing a great job sir.

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Cheers Jim, I appreciate it, 👍👍👍

[@debwilson5236]

Just like my fridge freezer full of drawings from my grandchildren love to see them x

[@pab777]

You cant beat it. Life is short. Bacon sandwich is in your top ten food experience . Spot on!

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

oh most definitely

[@johnancill7397]

ASDA is ahead of the game with this essential lines and it's already paying off with an increase in sales already and people love a bargain and presentation means nothing if they taste the same, spot on.

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Cheers John

[@rudimentaryganglia]

impeccable timing,had a bit of a bad month work hours wise and gonna do a weekly shop at Asda instead of Sainsbury's tomorrow lol

[@philbachmann6398]

Well Gareth, economy bacon in my neck of the wood is a waterlogged tasteless concoction with no smoke. Conversely, the local butcher has dry, maple smoked cut to order. Wants plenty for but I had to throw the cheap stuff away. Guess I'll be eating the good stuff occasionally. 👍🇦🇺🇬🇧

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Oh sorry to hear that pal

[@adztaylor2277]

This cheaper packed bacon is far better that is pricier counterpart. I have tried it and I agree. Save your money people and give it a try, you will be surprised as I was. Looks better on the plate as well. As far as I am concerned you are only paying for better packaging on the more expensive one. The cheaper, thicker, slices are the way to go, and you save in your pocket. Great comparison Gaz. All the best.

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Cheers pal

[@vapesnake]

On the packaging. Soft plastic is usually not recycled in the UK whereas hard(formed) is readily recycled

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Cheers

[@simong7539]

KM088 is the factory where the bacon was packed. As I understand it this code comes from the local authority where the factory is located.

[@MeMe-mi1xc]

Part two of my previous bacon to try dry cured. Can you try tesco v Asda v sainsburys etc. don’t forget we all love our sausages to so walls v richmonds etc. great video by the way.

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Thanks very much.

[@Sileceisgolden]

I'd encourage you to eat British pork when you can. Better welfare standards, better flavour and our farmers deserve our support. I completely support what you do and understand the cost implications. But it's better too! Thanks.

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

When people are skint they will buy what's cheapest regardless of where its from, its the governments fault we are in this state.

[@grahamrobinson4124]

@@BaldFoodieGuy Costs very little to cook your own food with fresh vegetable's. Too many people living on takeaways and expensive supermarket ready meals. As to the price of food in the UK, believe it or not but still cheaper in this country than many of the countries i have visited, Germany especially very expensive !

[@X22GJP]

I guess it depends on where the bacon is going to be used. For a good old bacon sarnie with plenty of butter, I find cheaper bacon to be just fine, if not preferable, especially when thin and crispy. Same when on top of a pizza or mixed into something like a breakfast quiche. If I'm making a more upmarket BLT sandwich, or the bacon is otherwise the star of the show, I'll tend to use the more expensive thicker cut stuff that has less water and a proper smoke. Having said that, when you do get the smoked bacon that oozes plenty of water, if you reduce it and are careful to not burn it, you can scrape it up, and when dry you can crumble it into or over things. I like to add the "bacon bits" to mayo and either spread some on the bacon sandwich or just use it as a dip for chips or something. Makes me laugh though when it says made with pork from UK and non-UK countries...so from anywhere then?! lol

[@Matt19matt19]

For me it depends how you cook it aswell. Cheaper bacon because it has a higher water content I prefer the air fryer. In a pan it often just boils in the water. In the air fryer, well the air fryer I have anyway the water drops through the holes in a tray that's in it so cooks better as it doesn't sit in the water.

[@iansims2984]

Great vlog to show that buying and eating with our eyes doesn't make a product any different in it's actual production of taste and flavour. If it taste good going in we will all process it the same on the way out and I certainly don't use my eyes in that respect 🤣👍

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Cheers Ian 👍

[@cameron-white]

Loving these Just Essentials comparisons!

[@meisongamer0873]

“Mmmmmm pig!” I didn’t think I would be able to sit through a nearly 12min clip of 2 pieces of bacon being compared… but damn I want some bacon now… I thought early on the cheaper one looked fattier but deep down isn’t that what you want anyway crispy fatty bacon… great video cheers!!

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Haha cheers pal thanks.

[@Stratboy999]

My local butcher is very good, but you certainly have to pay for it. Most of the time it's budget bacon for me, but occasionally I like to treat myself to the butchers. This is a helpful comparison.

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Cheers yes can't beat your local butcher 😋😋👍

[@davidayres7973]

Interesting watch and basically confirmed my own suspicions. The yellow label stuff is barely any different to the standard stuff. I buy bacon from my local asda and have done for a few years. 10 rashers about 1.60. Today they only had the 10 rashers yellow label for 1.25 (if I remember correctly) I found very little difference when I cooked it and lobbed it in a bacon sarni. Me and the young un nommed it right down 😁👍

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

cheers David.

[@Andyarms75]

This is not a put down !!!! But it would be great if you could write 'cheap' and 'expensive' on the plate with a Sharpie. It would just make it easier to see the comparison.. Fantastic channel by the way and believe me I'm an avid viewer 👍

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Cheers pal

[@steveflitton8903]

I knew this would be a good one watching you eat bacon! As you probably guess I love a nice rasher of bacon too. I think the difference in price is all about the different cuts they use and like you say, the meat is processed in many ways like dry cured for instance. I think the more fatty it is the less you pay. Give me a bacon roll any day!

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Yes very tasty Steve.

[@WolfmanWoody]

Your advice about cooking without oil is a good one. I even do my bacon in one of the ridged pans. If you're making carbonara with the bacon you'd be cutting into strips anyway so it doesn't matter what the rashers look like. Another good buy at Asda is the bargain bags of off-cuts. I use those to make minestrone soups with and any fatty lumps get fried up and thrown out for the red kites, they love 'em! Great video again!

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Thank you yes the late Gary Rhodes suggested it in one of his cooking programmes.

[@bigmacntings7451]

can't beat grilled!!

[@johnthompson9032]

Can’t imagine too many Vegans clicking the button here, you’ve convinced me👍🏻

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

enjoy pal

[@martindunstan8043]

How ya doing G man👍I always get Tesco middle cut rashers value range as I cut off the streaky and chop it up to run through scrambled egg the back from the middle cut I use for sarnies or breakfasts. They are rind on but I cut that away and more often than not the streaky part is so lean I've used it it sarnies and with pasta or pizzas too. 6 thick cut middle rashers value is £2.15 which is pretty good for what can be done with it and I hate that tissue stuff it's naff😂great vid take care buddy ✌️🍻

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Cheers pal

[@terrycrooks3172]

hi i have worked in a bacon factory. the whit stuff coming out the bacon is rub in cure and salt that is added to make sure of the shelf life..

[@dubway89]

I was going to criticize everything you've done because it annoyed me so much, but you know what you're such a genuine sounding bloke and you loved the fatty cheaper bacon. You've got a like and a new subscriber

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Thank you yes my reviews are different so I've been told. 👍👍

[@LeonTrotsky6782]

Thanks for the tip. Tried the essentials bacon & it was amazing, really enjoyed it.👍

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Cheers Mick 👍👍

[@22seanmurphy]

Hi Gareth a great review as always, yes your dead right they are both full of water, i do buy most of my meat to surport them and as you said it's a lot better, tesco's dry cured bacon is very good but it's not cheap hence i go to my local butcher, I spent many years as a butcher and i promise you if you shop around from your butchers you will find that it's great value for money and the quality is outstanding. 🍻🙏

[@MyGlens]

Agree 100%. There's too much water added to bacon these days, so that your bacon steam-cooks instead of heat-sears. Finding a good butcher nowadays is like finding gold. I remember when I was young that if you found a good butcher, even if you moved away from the area you still travelled back to that butcher for your meat. Fishmongers shops and butchers shops have been destroyed by the supermarkets and our lazy shopping habits. It's convenient, but we are paying the price in quality.

[@mikewright447]

i have used my local butcher and his "non shrinking bacon" shrank more than supermarkets along with his burgers , pork steaks and the beef steaks wernt that good for the price , swings and roundabouts.

[@MyGlens]

@@mikewright447 You will note I did say 'good' butcher and how hard they are to find.

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Cheers Sean

[@hazzard8760]

Supermarket bacon looks fine until you fry it when it shrivels down to nothing in a cloud of steam. Its pumpoed so full of water. To make a decent sarnie you start out cooking 3 rashers but end up using the whole packet as it shrinks down then hey presto, you have used the whole packet to get a half decent sandwich. Nothing like butchers bacon that usually holds its own and makes gorgeous sarnies. In fact my mouth is watering right now ( rather than the bacon) and I'm off to the kitchen.. 🤑🤑

[@MeMe-mi1xc]

Can you do dry cured bacon it has less water content. Does it taste better?

[@derbyjohn972]

Totally agree with you Gareth. Some spot on noise's 🤣🤣🤣

[@DC101-i8q]

I know here in Ireland IRL 0000 would mean slaughtered in such a place in Ireland, assume GB 0000 means the same thing? What confusses me is the mix like GB with non GB, but it has a slaughtered in logo. The cheaper one just looks like a fattier cut more than anything else, but you flipped back of packet and it looked fairly fatty.

[@samhenwood5746]

I always dry fry my bacon but your right about the water 😝great review & thanks for the birthday wishes 🤗

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Thank you so much 🤗

[@rickb3645]

That Asda Just Essentials Bacon was lovely and thick Gaz... That's just how i like my Bacon... The thinner Bacon is okay for making crispy Bacon if that's how you like it... I used to buy the huge value packs of Bacon Misshapes... It didn't need to be the perfectly shaped Bacon Rasher for me... And it meant that i could buy a Kilo of Bacon Misshapes... For the same price of a 250g pack of regular Bacon Rashers... And the shape of the Bacon didn't matter so much really... As Bacon usually shrivels up in the frying pan anyway... This is a great deal from Asda... £1.25 for 300g of Bacon is amazing value for money... Many thanks for the review Gaz... All the best... Cheers mate. 🍺

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Cheers yes spot on Rock was very tasty indeed.

[@JamesBrown-lc4fw]

The cheaper one looked nicer to be honest 👍

[@mxyzptlyk]

Years ago there was a secret recording documentary detailing a rep from a company that sold liquid/chemical injection equipment to meat processing companies. His tag line was "Why sell meat when you can sell water?". He was targeting a bacon producer at the time.

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

oh wow cheers pal yes water injected into chicken too.

[@pudsrus2]

These are the important reviews,well done👍

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Cheers pal

[@PeterChelmsford]

To me, bacon is bacon is bacon so the cheapest wins out as I have tasted some expensive bacon in the past and not seen any difference in taste. Keep up the good work Mr. G. 😁

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

cheers Peter

[@johndavis7944]

Bringing home the Bacon. The pan juices are just waiting to be soped up with a slice of bread. It was a good comparison between the two brands, quality, quantity and taste. The label and price can be something to chew the fat over. It's Saturday morning here in Australia and that means it's a bacon and egg breakfast for me. I'll be having mine in a toasted and buttered English multigrain muffin with tomato sauce and a heart starting nice intense plunger coffee 👍🤤😀 Cheers Gareth.

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

cheers John, i love fried bread

[@susanreid9857]

Thanks for the review Gareth x

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

You're welcome

[@garbino8160]

I dont know if this video was supposed to be funny but I was laughing all the way through you eating that bacon 😂😂 cheers gaz

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Haha you're welcome

[@pokeybumfinger2650]

I wasn't that impressed with the pack I had . When I was looking to save on bacon I picked through the cooking bacon packs . You can get good weight of proper misfit rashers sometimes .

[@annejones8777]

That cooking bacon is great

[@scouseofhorror104]

We got one of them once and when we opened it, it was all perfect, lean gammon steaks! About 8 in all for £1.05 (at the time) from Lidl!

[@xvsupremacy7190]

Yes but if you are eg a single mum, you have to be cost conscious , it makes a big difference if Little Johnny likes his bacon 🥓 sarnie. Either way both made me feel hungry !

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Cheers pal nice profile name lol

[@bobbeorn]

Good bits for buggies and odd bits as cheese bacon and onion pasty type thing.

[@stevewhitcher6719]

I buy "cooking" bacon which most of the big supermarket sells, and costs between 80p and £2 for 500g its all the odd and ends of bacon that they cant cut into nice slices! If you are not using it for breakfasts or sardies its a great saving whatever. And sometimes its not funny shapes or lumps but proper slices. So everytime i go to the super market i have a look at what the cooking bacon looks like today and if its slices buy it, take it home and freeze it.

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

yes seen that Steve

[@MrInternet83]

I buy it from tesco, it’s really good.

[@paulrichards6894]

Starting to get addicted to your videos

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Well they're are plenty to look at. Look in the playlist section

[@paulrichards6894]

@@BaldFoodieGuy i will

[@robertlindop9365]

Another brilliant price comparison review gareth and even though the dearer bacon looked more presentable I personally prefer thick cut bacon and really crispy so I would definitely have both but go for the price saving one and if your lucky find some bread on the yellow label for 35 pence or less 👍👍🐷🐷

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Cheers Robert yes was both tasty to be fair

[@izadoru]

Why can't we get bacon with the rind on anymore 🤔 for me, the rind and fat is the best part of a rasher. Even my local butchers don't leave it on.

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Oh yes curls up when grilled mmmmmm

[@gedge726]

If you want a massive bargain you should check out cooking bacon, which I guess is offcuts. Morrisons and Tesco are both good. Asda's looks cheaper still at £1.50/kg compared to £4.17/kg for your Just Essentials Back Bacon. Doesn't come in nice slices though. I mince it, freeze in portions in large ice cube trays, defrost in microwave and use for stir frys. Works ok in a sarnie/bap too once chopped up!

[@iandavis1723]

How do you mince it?

[@cousinjack2841]

35p; that's a lot, seven shillings! They both looked good but I prefer the thicker cut. I haven't lived at home in the UK for twenty odd years now, nut I used to buy my bacon from the high street butchers. Middle cut, so you get the best of both worlds, streaky and back, nice and thick and untrimmed, with the rind still on. That is proper bacon.

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Thanks pal

[@ronrichardson3103]

Finding a cut of bacon you like takes some doing as your tastes are always changing. So keep on looking and trying new things ... I find back bacon is very popular but it hasn't got the most flavour. Not evryone like smoked so they always stock both .myself I'm happy with smoked . And streaky too as you will find the flavour is in the fat . So no fat no flavour.. a good one to get butTakes some finding is smoked middle you get the back and streaky together that's my favourite.. but i'm not fond of smoked if we are boiling up a pan of broth for that i like a shank. But sometimes a pack of bacon pieces also with the shank makes a nice pan of broth .

[@Hedgerow-Media-UK]

If you go to Aldi and get their essentials back bacon pack 1 kg for £3.79 The rashers are quite thick too. Also, Farmfoods do multi-buy bacon. Three packs of bacon for £7.00. The rasher's thickness is quite reasonable and you get 12 rashers per pack. But the packs of bacon are frozen. That is quite a good deal £7.00 for 36 rashers.

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Cheers pal

[@Hedgerow-Media-UK]

@@BaldFoodieGuy Your welcome Bald Foodie Guy. I am also a business services broker and an economist for businesses 🙂

[@peterdurnien9084]

I would be interested in what the difference is in the before and after cooking weights.

[@malkyhun9823]

Valuable information, and proves that cheap doesn’t mean terrible.

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

thanks 😊

[@menopausalbarbie7467]

Thanks for another honest review 💜💜💜

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Cheers Barbie x

[@charlieyerrell9146]

Baldi it reminds me of the bacon in the compo cans we had in lybya in 1960. The trouble was it came out warm and a bit greasy.

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

yes before my time respect brother

[@roody59]

Legend. Loving these essentials reviews.

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Cheers

[@JRattheranch]

Gareth! Once the pan is up to temperature with the rashers in it, add a splash of boiling water! It'll cook just the same but taste so much better 😉! Especially the more so as too much salt isn't good for any of us! I'm 72 and I only learned this trick 8 months ago! 😉🤭

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Good tip John cheers mate

[@michaelrobbins8350]

In lidl if you get there cheap bacon it's super thick just different shapes as it's off cuts. They call it cooking bacon worth every penny

[@Glenn7719]

M daughter came back from sainsburys with some cheap bacon, it was rank. All you could taste was grease and salt. Good review.

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Sorry to hear that Richard

[@renannaw]

Been thinking about this, I’m glad they replaced the smart price branding because whenever I looked at it it never really looked appealing with the dull colour and little information about the food itself on the front. This just essentials range seems much better in terms of packaging, as a graphic designer packaging is everything in my eyes.

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

cheers Ren

[@tajjywajjyonionbhajji6198]

Eh up Gazza hows tha doin. I just love bacon. Great video. Bacon with brown sauce yummy. Here's one for you. What happens when pigs fly? The cost of bacon goes up lol

[@X22GJP]

What if I'm in the UK and the pig is in Australia? When the pig flies it's going down relative to me. Or are we just taking the absolute distance?

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Haha cheers pal

[@bonzobanana1]

For every 4 packs you buy you have have enough savings to buy another pack compared to the dearer pack. I only buy bacon occasionally but its always the cheaper option. I think typically there is a pack for about 83p in various supermarkets I would buy, not sure of the size maybe 150-200g.

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Yes good saving pal

[@thehiltongirl]

Oh god, I'm just thinking about how much I adore fatty crispy bacon what you are eating, as I look down at my 2 slices of limp looking toast in front of me. 😂

[@sparkymarky9883]

Hi there what a fantastic video like always very interesting to watch keep up the good work fantastic

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Cheers

[@LeedsUnited1996]

Eyup mate great content, can you do a video with cheap chicken wrapped in that cheap bacon with cheese and bbq sauce on top cooked in the oven, basically its hunters chicken, we have tried it and it's nice pal, tell us what you think, and keep up the good work with your videos your doing great

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Cheers pal

[@ncross1857]

When I buy bacon I always look for rashers with less fat, and a clear 'Medalion' part (whatever it's called), so to me, the cheaper one looked rank. BTW, I've got the same frying pan as you and I cured the high spot in the middle by putting it on a hard floor and standing on it. For H&S reasons, I must warn you not to do this when the pan is hot. 😀

[@jackhughesbooks]

not to do this when the pan is hot -wise advice indeed! LOL!!!!😂

[@shirleyryan7439]

Nice of you to say it looked rank but when families are struggling and will be even more so in October when the fuel prices go up you may want to be less harsh with your comments.

[@mrnobody4771]

Looks can be deceiving. Any top chef on the planet will tell you ALL the flavour is in the fat and fat marbling.

[@budweiser600]

Here's a secret, the fat is the best part - always look for bacon with more fat. Yes, it has slightly more calories, but that's kinda irrelevant.

[@danm8004]

The medallion part is the tenderloin, and you're a victim of modern low-fat marketing, my friend. The best bacon has a high fat content that you render out through low and slow cooking, giving you free lard for your future frying endeavours. The end product is crisp, lean, tender, and full of flavour.

[@markwallace7944]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👏 great comparison Gaz , I’m like you I could have bacon with all my meals. To be honest most people have either ketchup or HP on there bacon👏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

cheers Mark

[@EllyMentryPapercrafting]

II’ve been buying the equivalent cheap packs of bacon in Lidl for years, you are right, there is no difference at all, it is just as good!

[@martinthornley1610]

Km088 is a raw meat factory called kober LTD in Bradford so both produced in same factory

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Cheers Martin

[@basil9983]

I had some the other day mate I got the thick cut 👍 spot on it was. Only difference is the packaging. 😋

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Yes really good

[@fatty3383]

I was debating what to have for tea your video pretty much made me decide bacon sandwich lol

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Oh nice one pal

[@fatty3383]

@@BaldFoodieGuy it went down well mate especially with added brown sauce

[@robmatthews3461]

i buy the cheap asda bacon all the time i rate it,great price

[@donhue4546]

I USE TO FRY MY BREAD in the bacon fat,it use to be like toast,but now the bread gets too soggy,bacon/ham/pork is my fav meat,gammon steak pineapple chips and fried egg,yumz

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

Yummy

[@byronwoodleymaund1439]

Got some from Tesco, not very uniform bits but for 75p made a good sandwich.

[@MRJWC2332]

Hi Gareth we buy this all the time sometimes they are thin and go into a twist or they are like steaks then you get only 3 slices in. But you're right it's bacon!!! ( mr smartprice).🤫

[@ivor1689]

I get a lovely bacon bap from the golf club where I work at in the early mornings. Bacon is the food of god's. Would love to see you do a bacon grill one. That was the one of best things about the old ration packs along with the beans ☺️

[@BaldFoodieGuy]

yes so good mate cheers

[@toniwilliams9120]

Only bought the essentials bacon today to try today. x Also got the essentials roast chicken. x