Do you want your man to love you forever? Then get to work like the good little Hollywood Homemaker you are and make him a Bacon Explosion — a deliciously succulent, bacon-stuffed, bacon-wrapped Italian sausage loaf (it’ll work like a charm, so long as he doesn’t die midway through). Don’t have a significant other? Then come make it for me, and I shall love you forever. Maybe.
According to the New York Times:
The Bacon Explosion was born shortly before Christmas in Roeland Park, Kan., in Jason Day’s kitchen. He and Aaron Chronister, who anchor a barbecue team called Burnt Finger BBQ, were discussing a challenge from a bacon lover they received on their Twitter text-messaging service: What could the barbecuers do with bacon?
At the same time, Mr. Chronister wanted to get attention for their Web site, BBQAddicts.com. More traffic would bring in more advertising income, which they needed to fund a hobby that can cost thousands of dollars.
Mr. Day, a systems administrator who has been barbecuing since college, suggested doing something with a pile of sausage. “It’s a variation of what’s called a fattie in the barbecue community,” Mr. Day said. “But we took it to the extreme.”
He 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.
They then stuck the roll — containing at least 5,000 calories and 500 grams of fat — in the Good One Open Range backyard smoker that they use for practice. (In competitions, they use a custom-built smoker designed by the third member of the team, Bryant Gish, who was not present at the creation of the Bacon Explosion.)
Has anyone attempted this beast of a recipe? I think I might shoot for making it this weekend…who’s coming over? Check out the photo gallery of the process below and the recipe on BBQAddicts.com.
