Thread: Food and Drink What's for dinner? Here's mine... (Part 2)
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Old 10-30-2014, 08:58 AM   #2017
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Please explain
Which part?

The pork jowl bacon is just bacon made from pork jowls. Similar to guanciale.

The bacon press is a disk with a handle you use to put on top of the bacon while it cooks to keep it flat. This one's mine: http://smile.amazon.com/Norpro-Round...ds=bacon+press

It keeps the meat in constant contact with the pan, helps keep it flat, and on only one use, I think it helps to render fat better (perhaps because of the increased connection to the pan, but also possibly because of the disk heating up and helping to slowly cook from the top). It also seems to trap some steam under the press, which likely also helps to render the fat.
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