Is Aldi Budget Bacon Any Good?

the last couple of bacon reviews I've done they've been from The Butchers and they've been really really good so I was in Aldi and I seen this everyday essentials smoked back bacon rashers family pack we have a little traffic light system there for a mount per two rashers one kilogram so 1,000 G it is morning it's 9:00 but it is very Grim out there that's why I'm move things around for the review try to get the best lighting so it was £450 for a kilo of bacon now it's not dry cured I'm not expecting Miracles with this bacon I love bacon uh I'm going to do it in the frying pan and we'll see how we get on with it so let's uh take a look at the packaging I hope you're all spot on by the way so let's have a look at the front smoked back bacon rashers with added water yeah um it's freezable we have a GB sticker there uh it says used by 17th of February it's not frozen it was in the fridge so it says directions for use always wash well we do all that anyway don't we surfaces um you can Grill it or shallow fry it so I'm going to do mine in the frying pan we're just going to have a look at it and there's the ingredients pork um 85% we have water um yeah there they are there the ingredients exactly what I was expecting although every that has been made to remove bones some may small bones May remain a little warning we have there there is more nutrition if you want to have a look at that and um study it in detail pause it and crack off produced using a British and EU park it says yeah and look at it that's it's looking good in it look at all that bacon £450 oh I love Pig I love Pig let's um let's get it open let's get in the frying pan and if I miss anything out in the in the in this it'll have a look in the description of the video so let's um let's get it open I am expecting all the white Gunk to come out when it's in the pan but it's going to go down the arch anyway it a doesn't bother me that white Gunk does not bother me um I love bacon um I think I'd probably if I had a magnifying glass on a hot day I'd try and cook bacon I think um I like it that much there it is it's actually nicely packed as well it is I know it's pump probably pumped full of water but we'll we'll we'll notice that when we've got it in the pan is that right on as well would we have a bit of r on there as well well well well well I don't know if we do right let's get in the frying pan can't wait for this so I've just turned my frying pan on and I know when it comes to Frying bacon we're all Mitchell in Stars aren't we we all have our own ways and that way is is uh is is the right way to you but uh I'm going to do it in the pan I'm going to do it low and slow I've just turned the pan on I'm going to do three I'm not going to overcrowd the pan for now um three and I'm just going to do it on low and I'm just going to fry it away I've got me eat on about that much so yeah you get you're getting that gunk coming out of there so it's all like going bloaty and that so all that water's coming out and you can see it here look um it's coming out a lot so a lot a lot of your kilo will be in water as well that's they do that to make it up and make it look like you're getting more in my in my eyes but that's just me so I've turned it up a little bit not more now cuz I'm boiling it now and I'm s boiling bacon rather than frying it I didn't put any oil in the pan I just wanted to see how how it fares can't beat the old um air fryer can you oh do it in the oven I like it with a magnifying glass on a hot day no I would I wouldn't advise that you can smell the smokiness now so I'm going to turn it over that's look appealing that does it um it it actually says you know use a load of oil make sure your Pan's well oiled but it's a non-stick pan yeah it doesn't bother me that Gunk I don't eat it mine but if it is on the bacon it all goes down the atch so there's the pan and it's easy to get all that off just put it in some hot soapy water for five minutes and that'll just all come off no problem anyway I've showed you there's white gunk in it I knew there would be I'm going to finish it off in the air fryer I'm going to zap it for say 3 minutes at 200° just to get it a bit more crispy so I'm putting a bit of butter on my bread I'm not going mad with me butter cuz I'm on a diet it's done I tell you what it hasn't shrunk it hasn't shrunk at all it's still well it has shrunk allly all meat shrinks doesn't it when you cook it but it's not like gone to absolutely nothing it's still quite good size and it's looking good isn't it I had to finish it off in the air fryer just um yeah I just had to finish it off in air fry I just didn't feel it was going to go um go the way I want wanted it in the pan so I'm going to get it on in me buty do that like that and I've got one left here so I'm going to cut that bit off going to cut a bit of the the the the you know the the back bit off if you know what I mean you know what I mean don't you and a bit of that bit to try it and then that's going on me someways like that now I'm not putting any sauce on I know it's controversial we're all sauce Specialists are we when it comes to bacon we all have our own like we're all mitchellan stars uh Mitchell in I said that before Mitchell in chefs when it comes to bacon we all have our own way I don't think there's a bad way to do bacon I don't think there's a bad way um I'll try it first and then I'll I'll try it in a in a sandwich there it is oh that is good it is salty G is [Music] tasty W oh it's good it it's good there we are got in there we got in a sandwich I think you need three as a minimum in a sandwich don't you two two rounds of bread definitely three a minimum it's lovely it's quite meaty as well I'll finish this it's lovely it is nothing wrong with that I know you get a bit of water coming out of it you know if you don't like that just do it in your oven or do it in your air fryer stick it in for 20 minutes 180 come back and you won't see any water if you don't like it and you can always get a paper towel anyway in the frying pan and get it off if you don't like it but yeah like I said i' eat bacon done with a magnifying glass on a summer's day I love it I love it there's nothing wrong with that is tasty £50 for a massive a massive um pack like that as well family pack red sauce brown sauce I love I just love to taste the bacon I like a bit of butter on me bread or on me toast if I'm having a a toasted bacon sandwich but I do like to taste the saltiness and the meatiness of the bacon that is lovely it's a winner so this was a a recommendation after I've done my last bacon video said get yourself to Aldi and try the kilo bacon just um Essentials so I have I'm glad I tried it I'm glad I tried it thank you very much for your recommendations that's that's tasty that's nothing wrong with that for me it's it's an AR10 an AR10 and um yeah definitely buy it again yeah come buy naked bacon I get this wrong sometimes it's either nitrates or nitrites you don't get that in naked bacon um and if you want to Google that you can do so thank you very much for watching and subscribing I do appreciate it really do and um what else was going to say something else was going to say you can guarantee when I switch the video off I'll remember it and I'll go oh I should have said that can't remember I'll switch the video off and I'll remember anyway take care all the best and I'll get back to you oh bacon with rind on that was it nearly did it this this is not the Rind no rind on that it's just very close to the skin very salty very nice yeah I mean you can always put a bit of sauce on either side that's what I was going to say as well if you want sauce put I put a bit on the sauce so you brown or red and you can dip it in look at a m is right I am going now take care of the best I'll get back to you the next one