In the pantry · 25 uses
bacon
Fat, salt and smoke, and the rendered fat is the more valuable half. Start it in a cold pan so the fat comes out before the meat seizes.
16
dishes and drinks that need it
9
more where it is worth adding
88%
of those are under 30 min
What it is usually standing next to
Onion turns up alongside it in about 44% of them, which is a strong lean rather than a rule.
Counted off required ingredients across the whole corpus. A companion listed here is one these dishes are built from, not one we are recommending.
If you have twenty minutes
Built on it · 16
Take it out and the dish is something else. Fastest first.
Worth adding · 9
These work without it. They work better with it.