Why it works: Bread and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 20,964 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓
Bacon, Fried
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Wash the bacon and cut it into thin slices.
Roll the slices in hard bread crumbs.
Fry and serve
Grease a very hot pan and fry the bacon until crispy.
Season with pepper and serve immediately.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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The flavor team
The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.
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Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together20,964 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
What each ingredient does
- Bacon
- Provides the main meat and fat that renders and crisps in the pan.
- Hard bread crumbs
- Coat the slices, adding a crisp layer that browns during frying.
The step that matters
Frying in a very hot pan. A very hot pan crisps the bacon quickly while the fat renders out. A cool pan lets the bacon simmer in its own fat, leaving it greasy and limp rather than crisp.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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