TWITastic

CCB was mentioned on TWIT.TV's Munchcast in July.

TWIT TV Munchcast

It's torwards the end of the podcast.

I'm sorry I haven't posted in a while and I would like to take this opportunity to squish all the internet death rumors. Contrary to what’s been posted I wasn’t killed in a failed attempt at making Chocolate Covered Bacon nor did I die from a rare condition caused from consuming large quantities of sprinkles. These rumors are damaging and are not considered funny. Sprinkle poisoning is no laughing matter and affects 1 out of 1,000,000,000 people every 1000 years. I urge you to talk to your children about the dangers of sprinkle abuse. Please give generously to your local sprinkle abuse charities.

Critical Mass

Perhaps I'm on to something here. I was looking through the site traffic logs and I noticed that someone from Ferrero had visited my blog and read my entry about CCB. Perhaps prepackage CCB is just around the corner. This concerns me for a couple of reasons. 1st I don't believe the world is ready for such a powerful combination, 2nd this could possibly cause a bacon shortage. It's bad enough that I have to pay $3 for a gallon of gas, but $12 for a package of bacon might push me over the edge.

Ferrero representatives didn't return our calls.

Chocolate Covered Bacon

The History of CCB

Update (08/24/2008) - TWITastic

Update (06/26/2006) - Critical Mass

On a sunny day some friends and I had ordered some bacon cheese burgers for lunch. After a couple of bites someone commented on how bacon was able to make an already delicious hamburger even more delicious. This started a conversation on the power of bacon in-which it was able to make everything it came in contact with taste better. Whether it’s a filet wrapped in bacon, bacon on salads, pizza, or sandwiches it’s always that much better with bacon. We wondered if it was possible that any other foods had this special property. Someone quickly identified chocolate as a food with similar complimentary properties. Chocolate covered pretzels, strawberries, nuts, just about everything tasted better covered in chocolate. If both bacon and chocolate can make other foods taste better, what would happen if someone was just crazy enough to combine chocolate and bacon? A quick search on the internet yielded little information, which raised some serious concerns on the safety of combining two such powerfully substances. Several questions came to mind; maybe bacon and chocolate aren’t supposed to be combined? Maybe combining them could start the apocalypse? With complete careless recklessness for ourselves and the rest of the planet we decided it had to be done.

I’ve carefully documented the procedure for making Chocolate Covered Bacon (CCB) to serve as record incase I was killed during the combining process.

Disclaimer:

If you are planning on following the outlined procedure listed below please proceed with EXTREME CAUTION. This documented procedure was performed in a controlled environment with all the necessary safety procedures.

Please note: That no animals were hurt in this process (none that I specifically hurt, but I suspect the company that harvested the bacon might have).

Getting Started

You will need the following ingredients and necessary cookware:

Ingredients

• 1 bag (12oz) of Semi-Sweet Chocolate morsels
• 1 1lb of uncooked bacon
• Sprinkles (optional)

Cookware

• Large skillet
• Double boiler | medium sauce pan and smaller sauce pan (simulate double boiler)
• Cooking tongs
• Cooling rack | cookie sheet
• Large plate and some paper towel (2 or 3 sheets)
• Big Spoon

Procedure

1. Remove Bacon from package (I suspect it is possible to cook it in the package, but this might make it difficult to cover it in chocolate)
2. Heat large skillet on high.
3. Add bacon strips to skillet.
4. Turn bacon strips over as needed with tongs.
5. Cook back until it’s reduced to about ¼ of its original size and appears to be crispy. (Personally I believe that the bacon should be crispy; however if you prefer your chocolate covered bacon chewy opposed to crunchy then reduce cooking time by removing your bacon earlier)
6. Remove bacon from skillet and place it on a paper towel lined plate. (This will absorb the excess fat and oil making this a low calorie healthy snack)
7. While the bacon is cooling fill the double boiler or medium sauce pan with water and bring to a medium heat.
8. Place double boiler top pan in double boiler bottom pan or put the small sauce pan in the medium sauce pan.
9. Slowly add chocolate morsels into top pan and stir while morsels melt. Do this until all morels have been added. (Be sure to keep stirring to prevent the chocolate from burning.)
10. Using your fingers or tongs carefully dip the bacon strips into the chocolate, if necessary use a spoon to spoon the melted chocolate over the bacon evenly coating it.
11. Once coated lay strips on cooling rack or cookie sheet.
12. (Optionally) Apply Sprinkles evenly on chocolate covered bacon while on cooling rack. It’s important to apply while the chocolate is still warm. This will allow the sprinkles to better adhere to the chocolate.
13. Place cooling rack with bacon into the refrigerator for 15 minutes.
14. Carefully remove bacon strips from the cooling rack and place into a container or place the strips directly into your mouth.
15. Bring container with strips to work, school, or religious event.

Moment of Truth

At this point you are probably wondering if Chocolate Covered Bacon (CCB) tastes good or is utterly disgusting.  Perhaps you are asking yourself “Why would anyone even consider this combination?” I suspect the person who suggested that orange juice might not just be for breakfast anymore was subjected to the same level of scrutiny. But it was exactly this type of forward thinking that tore down the walls and stereotypes about orange juice, and made it perfectly acceptable to consume anytime of the day.

Let’s see what people are saying about it.

Reviews

“It’s like someone crapped in my mouth, Mmmm! Eh!”
Sammy Haggar of Canada

“Tastes like Chicken”
Waitress of Detroit, MI

“Three Words; Full Moon Party”
Rene of Miami, FL

If you have any questions, please post a comment. I'll be compiling the list into a FAQ.

 

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The Super Three

Cameron and I decided to test out Apple’s iMovie HD by creating a short trailer. It was so surprisingly easy and we had so much fun that we decided to make a short movie with his friends. This is the trailer for Cameron’s up coming short movie; it was only the 2nd time that we actually used iMovie. Creating a movie with iMovie is amazingly simple, but impressively powerful. It has some great built-in special effects and a subset of Lucas Film’s sound effects library. Click the Picture to play the movie. It's in Apple Quicktime format

The Software

Coming from the Win XP world and using Mac OSX is like going through some sort of dimensional wormhole that pops you out into another world where things are the opposite of our dimension. The close, minimize and maximize window buttons are on the left side of windows instead of the right (no pun intended). Even stranger is the way these buttons function. In the normal world the close button, you guessed it! Closes the instance of the application you are running, but in the land opposites it just closes the window. You see the application is still running even though the window is gone.. Scary!!! This because Apple has decided to base their window manager on MDI (Multiple Document Interface); which an application can host multiple windows in a single application instance and this mean that when you click the close button in OSX you are just closing an instance of a document. Next there is the maximize button. One would think that this would cause a window to fill the screen, but that is not always the case. Sometimes yes and sometimes no. Thankfully the minimize button works the same as Win XP. Also in the land opposites double clicking on a window causes the window to minimize instead of maximizing. I could go on and on about the differences, but to prevent you from tuning out I’ll stop. So based on what I’ve posted thus far you would think I hate Mac OSX, but actually that’s not the case. The more I use OSX, the more I like it. It’s not perfect and there are many things I don’t like about it, but the same is true for Win XP. Despite what the zealots will tell you, OSX is no better or worse than Win XP. Sure windows has its viruses and spyware, but honestly contrary to what the zealots will tell you. I don’t think it’s that big of a problem. The reason I say this is because the time that I actually got infected by Spyware was when I was going to some rather questionable sites. So basically no mainstream site is going to give you spyware and now that MS has released a free anti-spyware program it’s even less of a problem. So, if you want to look at pr0n on your Windows machine go ahead. Hey.. What’s the point of an operating system without applications? People run applications on an OS; the OS isn’t why people buy a computer, but the applications they can run. This is where OSX shines and bleeds all at the same time. The Mac Mini comes packaged with iLife 05; this suite of Applications is what makes OSX shine. iLife comes with iDVD, Garageband, iPhoto, iTunes, and iMovie HD. At a first glance, I was initially disappointed with iLife. I really felt after I opened iMovie HD that it wasn’t much better than windows movie maker, but after I started a little movie project for my son Cameron I quickly discovered that it blew windows movie maker away. iMovie is a wonderful, ultra simple video editing application that allows even a kid to make a professional looking video. I could stop there, but it gets so much better. Once you have created a super sweet video you probably want to watch it on your TV, so you click the iDVD button in iMovie and up pops iDVD with your creation already setup. All you have to do now is select a theme and click burn. That’s it!!! It’s so easy that my Dad could probably do it. iLife really makes the Mac OSX experience. Following suit with iMovie and iDVD there is Gargeband (part of iLife) which is a multi-track recording studio. You can plug a guitar into your Mac and start recording songs using the built-in loops and drum/bass kits. I’m not as fond of iPhoto, perhaps I need more time with it to come to a better conclusion. iTunes same as the Win XP version, but it works. So if iLife makes OSX shine what makes OSX bleed? It’s the unfortunate lack of software titles. There are several applications in the windows world where there isn’t a Mac version available. This makes it difficult for me to make ever consider going Mac only. This isn’t a problem for me because I didn’t buy a Mac to replace my Win XP machine; I bought a Mac as creativity device. I can honestly say that the Mac deliveries in this category. Our Mac is really growing on us… more to come.

The Hardware

It’s been 3 weeks since we got the Mac mini so I figure I’ve had enough time with it to give my first impressions of the hardware. It’s a thing of beauty! My expectations of what a computer should look like and more importantly sound like have been completely changed. The form factor of the Mini is great; it’s so hard to believe that a rather powerful computer can fit into such a small little box. With this little box I can edit digital video with easy and even burn it to DVD. The thing that is most impressive is the fan noise, or more to the point the lack of it. I wish my windows box was half as quite as the mini. Here are pictures of my setup.

I'm a Nerd! Please help me!

I’ve been playing World of Warcraft, I guess 1.5 million subscribers can’t be wrong? I’m currently playing on the Kargarth server as a Dwarf Hunter. I also have a bear and his name is Borat. He’s so fat!!! If you would like to enter the world of ultra-geekdome then go pickup a copy of this game at your local Target. Please be advised that this game might cause marriage or relationship problems, however if you are not currently in a relationship you can rest assure that while you play this game you won’t be in one. Rob, John and I have been going on quests in the game to prove our allegiance to the uber-nerds. You should too.