I’m not a ‘bacon all the time’ person so much as a ‘bacon once in a while’ person. Bacon is obviously delicious, but I tend to think of it as a treat rather than a breakfast staple, and I rarely add bacon to menu items like burgers. I used to live very close to a fancy butcher shop that made all of its bacon in-house. When I was in the mood to treat myself, I figured it was worth it to splurge on that shop’s fancy bacon. For quite some time in my life, fancy bacon was the only bacon I was cooking and eating — then I moved. I am no longer near a fancy butcher. Now when I cook bacon, it’s what I can source from my local supermarket.
No shade to supermarket bacon. Even on its worst day, bacon is pretty great. ‘Not the best’ bacon is still bacon. Sometimes though, I want more than run-of-the-mill bacon. I yearn for the fancy bacon with its often slightly out-of-the-box flavors. A little searching brought me to a very easy technique that takes regular bacon to the next level: glazing.
A flavorful glaze is a super simple way to take your bacon to the next level. I mixed up two versions using a few pantry-friendly ingredients to make a savory-sweet glaze and a sweet and spicy version. (The addition of mustard to the savory-sweet glaze pushed it to the top for me, but my husband favored the spicy one.)They were both delicious and have a place in my bacon rotation. They’d be just as good next to eggs as they would on a turkey sandwich. Read on to see how to up your bacon game at home too!