The Best Turkey Bacon at the Supermarket
Tasting expert Jack Bishop challenges Bridget to a tasting of turkey bacon.
Read the full turkey bacon taste test:
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I don’t love it, but my cardiologist does.
Do u all sell aprons
Wellshire turkey bacon in 2022 is now 7.99 at our local whole foods. Good stuff though. Definitely a go to for bacon alternative.
I so appreciate this
There must be another version of this on the cutting room floor where they just roast, no pun intended, the turkey bacon to shreds and then someone said to bring it down a notch. LOL
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My blt would become an ld.
I follow the bibles dietary laws! So I love turkey bacon!
She was tearing that turkey bacon up 🤣🤣🤣
Sometimes consumers in America can be so ignorant. They don't read the back labels where the ingredients and real nutritional info are. If they did, they'd understand that most turkey bacon is even less healthy than pig bacon. The ads and store sample ladies are misleading. Turkey bacon has more sodium and fat, and sugar too. It has to compensate for the missing texture, sugar, fat and flavor that real bacon has. So you might as well go back to pig bacon… though it's all unhealthy.
You should read "Salt, Sugar, Fat" by Moss, about how our food industry gets us hooked, and how they can't actuslly stop using the three ingredients because they're necessary to extend shelf life, keep things crispy and brown, mask industrial flavors, and also because of the competition: if you reduce fat and sodium but your competitors won't, then you'll lose consumers to them. And customers may complain thet the healthcare ear vwrsion doesn't taste as good. They all depend upon consumers not questining their claims, and not reading the labels and knowing what they're reading means. Don't pay attention to catchwords on the front label. Read the back labels for hard facts!
If the presenters truely felt that bacon should only come from swine then they should have stated that in the beggining and ended the video early. It could have saved us all a lot of time. This review of an alternative to the clogged artery version of bacon was clearly not objective. This was a missed opportunity to educate the public on the pros and cons to traditional and more healthy versions of bacon.
Spam?
I say go light, at least you can have alot more to eat if you want to, and it's better for the heart at least.
I just cooked 4 slices of Jennie-O turkey bacon this morning in 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil for about 10 minutes (turning every 2 minutes) and it still seemed to come out dry and leathery. I'll have to try Wellshire turkey bacon next.
Okay, now I know what despair tastes like.
Jenny-o is my preferred turkey bacon.
"I long for Christmas.. I long for crunch…" …huh?
The cook actually smoked a cigarette while cooking the turkey bacon and didn’t wash his hand. Hence the taste.
I only eat turkey bacon because of health and religious purposes.
I don't eat pork, so turkey or beef bacon are my go-to choices. I wasn't a fan of the Butterball brand, but I love Applegate Farms Turkey Bacon. It tastes and cooks up more like the real thing. You will have to cook it longer than recommended, especially if you're going for that crispier consistency.
OMG, it tastes like someone left a cigarette on my plate! 🤣🚬🥓🙏🏼🥓🙏🏼🥓😂
Thank you for being painfully honest!! I feel like on many cooking shows, and foodie shows people often fake thier reaction or how they felt about it or liked it. But loved how you did not compromise your opinion whatsoever!
Anytime I’m having a bad day, I think of this video and how poor Bridget had to taste test turkey bacon and then I feel better!
Here’s the thing with turkey “bacon.”
You can’t compare it to classic pork 🥓 bacon.
It’s simply not. But if you enjoy a thin fried ham, fried Bologna, fried spam- that sorta thing- you’ll enjoy turkey bacon. We really enjoy it as a meaty alternative. The texture can be managed and make it as crisp or as tender- and use bacon grease to dry it in- not because you are trying to make it taste like bacon but because it makes it yummy like most things fried in bacon grease.
Now- I’ve stood up for my 🦃 🥓 without shame!
Butterball is our favourite btw.
Look, turkey bacon isn't replacing pork bacon. It's a completely different meat. I suggest buying the Columbus Turkey Meat from Costco.
if you hate an ingredient this much….why do a taste test?? the level of contempt/impartiality was a bit off-putting …
she just ROASTED turkey bacon
First of all, I love ATK. Secondly, this review is unfair. If you don't like turkey bacon, you shouldn't do a turkey bacon review. I do like turkey bacon, and in fact, I have two packs of Butterball turkey bacon in my fridge right now because that's what was on sale at my local market. I've never heard of Wellshire turkey bacon.
Bridget was thinking: Who did I piss off to get this taste test?
seasons the dinner plate and proceeds to bite into it
Thank you ATK for showing exactly how terrible turkey bacon is. Bacon cannot be replaced.
Love Bridget's honesty and her love of meat.
Jennie o what I buy
Great to see you ladies still cooking strong
That is a misrepresentation of product Turkey's do not have bacon they never did have bacon and they never will have bacon pigs have bacon. It is a faux bacon.
To approach turkey bacon as an emulation of bacon is to approach with the wrong premise.
It’s something else that isn’t a vegetable.
Is it tasty on its own? It can be.
If bacon is what you want, turkey bacon won’t satisfy.
True the other direction, as well.
If a turkey sandwich is what you want, ham won’t do the trick.
I think ATK wasn’t adhering to their usual character in the production of this comparison.
It’s a reasonable, alternative product, that has a legitimate market for some defined reasons.
I hope they’d not do the same in a comparison of Oat Milks or Almond Milks and constantly measure them back to cow milk.
Why not just make shoe leather (turkey bacon is disgusting)? If you want better tasting turkey bacon, save some real bacon fat, and fry it using that instead of veg oil.
Doesnt sound like an Oximoran sounds like a combination
She said a cigarette 😂
I've never had pork bacon but I can tell just by looking at both that turkey bacon is probably better.
My oldest son called it "Facon" the one time we tried it.
Oh come on
Well pork is not what I eat