Breakfast, what's your usual, what's your treat ?

[Mr. Dazzle]

I do not understand how someone can be so wrong.

Cheese is the very top of the "foods made by better by smoking" list.

[Count Steer]

I do not understand how someone can be so wrong.

Cheese is the very top of the "foods made by better by smoking" list.

Bring that smoke near my Cheshire, Cheddar, Lancashire, Manchego, Comté whatever and you're getting a fire extinguisher on err, your ass.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Never had smoked Comté or Manchego, off to Google where I might find some...

[Wossname]

Usual: my own home made muesli (1kg jumbo oats/400g dried mixed fruit/200g smashed up mixed nuts/sometimes some other seeds etc); brown toast and Mrs W’s mate’s homemade marmalade, Yorkshire tea.
Special treat: smoked bacon, decent butcher sausages, mushrooms, black pud, 2 fried eggs.The eggs are crucial - white cooled evenly, NOT crispy round the edges, yolk runny in the middle but cooked opaque on the top. I know what I mean and I can cook it like that - why can’t everybody else? Don’t start me on hotels - even posh ones - a layer of dozens of solid eggs, the only difference between white and yolk being the colour, and each one crispy from lying under the heat lamp since 4am.
Main reason we stay in bnb’s not hotels.
Was that a rant? Sorry.

[Noggin]

PLNOK
Smoked bacon, off the BBQ or smoker is da bomb, especially if you leave it just a smidge too long and the edges are on the verge of burning.

But why? It just doesn't taste like bacon then - it just tastes like smoke

Smokey bacon, smoke doesn't delete the bacon flavour, I'd hate to think about what you've been eating

I guess I haven't had the 'right' sort of Smoked Bacon then

I've yet to come across a food which wasn't made better by being smoked.

If given the choice of smoked or au naturel bacon, smoked wins every time.

You lot are all weird!! LOL And I am happy not having smoked food! Are you all smokers??!!

I've yet to come across a food which wasn't made better by being smoked.

Cheese.

I'm with Nogs, there's an awful lot of really bad 'smoked' bacon out there and it stinks of some sort of unnatural chemical process. Walk past many places in the morning and the stench assaults your nostrils. There are, to be fair, many things masquerading as unsmoked bacon too that aren't dry cured just dunked in brine and left there and there's some decent smoked bacon out there but it's not the majority of the vile imitations that get served up. (If you want examples of the way humans can insult a pig carcass just visit N America/Canada...no wonder they want sugary glop on their 'bacon').

OMG, I tried smoked cheese once. Only once. Bleurgh!!


I will eat non smoked bacon that is in brine, but I do very much prefer my home dry cured bacon!! Need to do more of that so I have a stock of it in the freezer - unsmoked!!

[Taipan]

In the main i only buy dry cured bacon and normally just medallions too. I cant stand the bacon that gives off that white scum when you cook it.

[Mr Moofo]

I do not understand how someone can be so wrong.

Cheese is the very top of the "foods made by better by smoking" list.

Bring that smoke near my Cheshire, Cheddar, Lancashire, Manchego, Comté whatever and you're getting a fire extinguisher on err, your ass.

Cheshire and Lancashire cheese is shit whatever you do to it, bit like Wensleydale ...
Now, Tasty Lancshire is lovely - and worlds away from the crunbly shite one!

[Taipan]

I do not understand how someone can be so wrong.

Cheese is the very top of the "foods made by better by smoking" list.

Bring that smoke near my Cheshire, Cheddar, Lancashire, Manchego, Comté whatever and you're getting a fire extinguisher on err, your ass.

Cheshire and Lancashire cheese is shit whatever you do to it, bit like Wensleydale ...
Now, Tasty Lancshire is lovely - and worlds away from the crunbly shite one!

Certainly wasn't a cracking bit of cheese when I tried it. Bland AF...

[Mr Moofo]

I've yet to come across a food which wasn't made better by being smoked.

Banoffee Pie ?

[Mr. Dazzle]

I've yet to come across a food which wasn't made better by being smoked.

Banoffee Pie ?

I'd order it

TBF that'd be a proper red rag to a bull to me. How could you not order something so provocative?

[Count Steer]

I do not understand how someone can be so wrong.

Cheese is the very top of the "foods made by better by smoking" list.

Bring that smoke near my Cheshire, Cheddar, Lancashire, Manchego, Comté whatever and you're getting a fire extinguisher on err, your ass.

Cheshire and Lancashire cheese is shit whatever you do to it, bit like Wensleydale ...
Now, Tasty Lancshire is lovely - and worlds away from the crunbly shite one!

TBH I don't regularly buy cheese made from cow's milk at all any more (I used to buy the Comté for me but that's the missus's these days). However, I occasionally go into a bit of a buying frenzy* at the cheese counter at the Cowdray farm shop and used to at the cheese room in the Hungry Guest shop in Petworth - dunno if the cheese room is still there though. The Hungry Guest empire has shrivelled a bit. They used to do excellent breads.

* By 'eck it's expensive there though!

[Mr Moofo]

Bring that smoke near my Cheshire, Cheddar, Lancashire, Manchego, Comté whatever and you're getting a fire extinguisher on err, your ass.

Cheshire and Lancashire cheese is shit whatever you do to it, bit like Wensleydale ...
Now, Tasty Lancshire is lovely - and worlds away from the crunbly shite one!

TBH I don't regularly buy cheese made from cow's milk at all any more (I used to buy the Comté for me but that's the missus's these days). However, I occasionally go into a bit of a buying frenzy* at the cheese counter at the Cowdray farm shop and used to at the cheese room in the Hungry Guest shop in Petworth - dunno if the cheese room is still there though. The Hungry Guest empire has shrivelled a bit. They used to do excellent breads.

* By 'eck it's expensive there though!

Goat's Cheese is the food of the devil!

[Mr. Dazzle]

If you're ever up Lincolnshire way, this place is worth a visit.

AFAIK they used to sell online but "we sold too much stuff and it was loads of work". Safe to say it's a lifestyle business for the owner

https://thecheeseshoplouth.co.uk/

[Count Steer]

If you're ever up Lincolnshire way, this place is worth a visit.

AFAIK they used to sell online but "we sold too much stuff and it was loads of work". Safe to say it's a lifestyle business for the owner

https://thecheeseshoplouth.co.uk/

It was a small outfit like that (the Louth shop may even be the latest incarnation) we got cheese by post from during and for a while after the pandemic. Then they retired. They said that they only kept going for an extra period to help out. Tried to sell the business. Maybe they just sold the shop. They had some excellent stuff whoever/wherever they were. Worlds away from 'supermarket' cheese.

PS @Mr Moofo yeah, goat's cheeses can be a bit 'goaty' but sheep's milk cheeses are generally marv and some are completely different fresh and aged. Bought some at a range of ages by the 250gm in a cheese shop in Italy and it was my sheep cheese revelation.