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- All right, it's bacon again.
A couple of weeks ago,
I tested out a couple of different bacon recipes.
I tried out that trending bread bacon from TikTok,
and I also tried out Gordon Ramsey's bacon.
Now, if you watch that video great, hello, hi.
Thank you.
If you didn't,
you probably want to watch that video first
and then come back
because I'm going to take all the things I didn't like
about Gordon Ramsey's bacon and leave it out,
and then just make it better
with things that I think will work.
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All right, so Gordon Ramsey's bacon
is essentially rice paper stuffed with tofu and then baked.
My main issues with his were that
A, the marinade was really spicy.
Bacon is not spicy.
So that was like a red flag right off the bat.
Like I knew we were going in the wrong direction right away.
It also didn't crisp up.
It was quite soft, and really like pliable and chewy.
Didn't love that.
And I just didn't in general, love the marinade.
So what I've done is taken my rice paper bacon recipe
for the marinade and just tweaked it a little bit.
And then I'm going to do pretty much everything the same,
except the way that I'm going to layer everything
and cut it.
And I'm also going to use less tofu
because I find that that's probably one of the main reasons
why it's so soft.
All right, so I just have a tiny little bowl here.
I'm going to mix everything in this bowl,
but for the actual marinating of the rice paper,
I'm going to transfer it to a plate with like a lip on it.
But for the marinade, it's like I said earlier,
essentially my rice paper bacon marinade,
just I added some MSG because I tried that.
I tried the MSG in the bread bacon with the marinade,
and it made such a delicious, meaty umami flavor.
So I added that to this.
If you are allergic to MSG, you can just leave that out.
That's fine.
And no, MSG is not bad for you
unless you have an intolerance,
before you write that into my comments section.
For our marinade, we're going to start with some water,
soy sauce, if you're gluten-free, you can just use tamari,
maple syrup, olive oil, or any neutral oil.
I mean, you can use like a vegetable oil or not coconut.
Well, if it's deodorized coconut or refined coconut,
that's fine, but I just find it olive oil to be easiest.
I have some liquid smoke and then our spices
and nutritional yeast.
So mix that all together.
Voila, a delicious bacon marinade.
Now I have my tofu in a separate bowl,
and I'm going to add some additional nutritional yeast
to that as well as a couple tablespoons of the marinade.
And don't add too much of the marinade
just because you don't want the tofu to be overly wet.
I pressed this tofu for quite a bit.
I find that that also helps
with making the bacon less soggy.
If you have a tofu press, amazing.
I would even like do it the night before
if you have the forethought.
If not, just do it for like an hour
and like really get all the liquid out of there.
All right, so that's all mixed together.
Now I'm going to transfer my marinade into a plate
and I'll show you an easier way to do this
than like cutting the strips each individually.
All right, so I've spread out my marinade there.
So since making rice paper bacon,
I guess like six years ago now,
or whenever it was that I first made it,
I always would like soak it and then cut it,
and then that evolved to just like cutting it with scissors,
and then that evolved to, now,
making it really fast and really easy.
So what I'm going to do is just soak the full sheet
of rice paper in the marinade.
I feel like this recipe just keeps evolving
every time I do it.
I just find better ways to do things.
And pretty much this happened
because I just felt that having
to do them all individually just takes too long,
and I'm lazy.
So because I do this for my rice paper anyway,
I figured why not?
That should be easy.
So I'm going to soak,
press the rice paper into the marinade,
and it'll start getting soft.
And just make sure it is well coated.
And then always,
if you find that there's some spots missing
or you just didn't cover it completely,
you can always use a pastry brush.
So I'm transferring it to this cutting board.
And like, you don't want it to soft,
so you don't want too much,
but then also you don't want to be so thin.
So it's a fun, delicate dance of trying to figure this out.
Now I'm going to go ahead and add my tofu.
So I found that Gordon Ramsey just used way too much tofu.
It was just too much.
Bacon is meaty, but it's not like that thick.
And I just found that it like never really got crispy.
And after we did the Gordon Ramsay video,
I had leftover bacon and I tried just cooking it in a pan
and also didn't get very crispy.
So I think that this is definitely going to help.
So I'm just crumbling the tofu on top
and leaving like space between little bits of it.
Definitely spreading it out.
Like, this is so much faster than doing it individually,
like each little strip.
Like cutting the strips, and then soaking the strips,
and then putting the tofu on the strips,
and then cutting the next one.
It's too much.
It's too much strippage.
All right, so then you want to take your second one
and do the same thing
Flip it over.
It will start to like curl and move
cause it's getting soft.
And then you can go ahead and just lay that on top.
So I'm going to give that a second for it to get soft
and just kind of like drop onto the tofu here.
If there are any sort of like dry spots, you can go ahead
and just put some more of that marinade on it,
and then we're going to slice it with a pizza cutter.
The other thing about Gordon's recipe
is that the TikTok video showed him cooking it on a pan,
but the written recipe,
which is the one that I followed,
said to put like a grill on top
and then lay the bacon on top.
It's hard to like remove and flip.
And I just, I didn't think that it really added anything
since it didn't get crispy at all.
So I'm just going to go ahead and just do a pan like this,
that I'm going to grease.
So it's just a silicone little mat here.
You can use parchment.
And I'm just going to grease it with some cooking spray.
Now I'm going to use a pizza cutter
and just cut little strips.
Viola, and then you can transfer that to your sheet.
So pretty.
I mean, the cutting,
if you have a super sharp pizza knife,
which I'm going to get mine sharpened,
then you're flying through this.
Like, this is so much easier
than like dipping each individual piece,
and then like sprinkling tofu on it,
and then dipping the next piece,
and then putting it together.
It's just, it's a lot.
And then you can just bake this in the oven
for about like 8 to 10 minutes.
I believe he had like 15 on his, and then flip it,
and then another like 10 or 15.
I think that's just because his would never crisp up.
You only need about 8 to 10 minutes.
Check on them and flip them once.
All right, so after your bacon is cooked,
take it out of the oven and put it onto a wire cooling rack.
This will help it crisp up even more.
And then after you let it cool,
we will end up with something like this.
They smells so good.
They're smoky, they're crispy.
I think they're the perfect texture.
(bacon crunches)
Like you get a little bit of meatiness, but not too much.
It's still really crispy.
That salty, smoky, sweet really comes through.
This might be the best bacon I've ever made.
This in a sandwich, sprinkled on top of a salad,
like any way that you would use bacon, perfection.
All right, so there you guys have it.
Gordon Ramsey's bacon recipe, but better.
So I guess, just edgyveg bacon.
It's now edgyveg bacon.
Let me know your thoughts in the comment section down below.
Have you tried Gordon Ramsey's bacon?
Are you maybe not going to now,
maybe you're going to make this instead?
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