Trying NEW No Added Nitrite Bacon! IT'S GOOD

How's everyone doing out there? I hope you're all absolutely spot on. Now I've got a cracking video today, well I hope it's going to be. I'm going to review some bacon, some new bacon. I got it in Tesco, come and have a look what I got. And here it is, Tesco new eight unsmoked back bacon rashers. Trusted farmers, Tesco welfare assured, slowly matured, made without added nitrites. Tesco quality and taste red tractor certified pork used by the 7th. Yeah we've got a short date there's the nutritional information for two bacon rashers in traffic light form. So nitrites what are they? Well the chemical salts added to the cured meats to make it last longer basically and they've been linked to cancer haven't they? So we'll end that discussion. I'm not talking I'm not talking about that anymore because... It's not what I do. I'm just reviewing this bacon. So the price it was £2.50 or if you've got a club card it's £2. Now I have reviewed sort of naked bacon in the past as it's called. This is new. I did notice that there's other stuff out as well with no added nitrites. Yeah they do smoked and unsmoked bacon too. So let's take a closer look at the packaging. So that'll, yeah, when we've got it, we've seen the date, it's very short. Yeah, it's probably because the nitrites sort of make it last longer, don't they? So let's go around the back. We've got some spiel. We've got unsmoked, rindless, back bacon with added water, made without added nitrites. Cooking instructions, you can grill it, you can pan fry it, you can do it in the air fryer as well. Bacon's great done in the air fryer, air fryer, air fryer. Yeah, I like mine like slightly done and crisp. I don't like it, I don't like it soft and sort of where the fat's all soft but we're all different. And there's the ingredients we've got pork 85% made using British pork. Um yeah we don't add nitrites to this bacon instead we use natural flavorings from fruit and spice extracts. Keep in the fridge 250 grams with a UK NI stamp there. There is nutrition as sold in detail if that's your thing you can pause it and study it by all means go ahead. Right I'll hail the pig as my one of my favourite comedians say Al Murray what a cracking comedian he is. Right so what I'll do with this I'll just sort of I'll break that there like that because it'll make it easier to get into so we have a little tab system here let's Let's see if we can, let's see if it works. Oh yeah. Oh, yes it does. Yeah it smells all right, doesn't smell off or anything like that. Right I'm going to do it, I'm going to do mine, I'm going to do three rashers and I'm going to do it in the air fryer. So this is a top tip and this was told to me in the comments. If you've got any of these liners for your air fryer. you can put it underneath it like that and then place it in your air fryer which i'll do now and then you you only have to wash this bit really i mean you do you do i always wash mine all the time no matter what goes in there i always wash it each time that's why it's so clean i've had a few people in the comments say why is it how come it's so clean because i always wash it just in soapy water but yeah it does help and when it goes in it it's like that look Right let's get this out. Let's have a look at these rashers. So let's just make sure you do get eight first. So one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. So let's have a look at these and we'll see. Yeah that's quite thin that one isn't it? That's how thick it is there look. Yeah they're very thin. Very very thin. They won't take long in the air fryer. I'll get another one out and we'll have a look. It's falling apart as well. Certainly not thick cut is it? Right I'll get three out and I'll put them in the air fryer. I'll show you that now. i changed my mind i thought i thought i'd have four so i'd like to take this opportunity if i may um to thank you for watching and kindly ask you if you've not subscribed to the channel then maybe consider subscribing it's free and it does help the channel and i and i thank you for it and if you give the video a thumbs up absolutely spot on so cheers so i've got a comment saying what make is your um toaster it's a delonghi we've had it a long time Yeah we've had it a long time but it's it's working it's working well and I'm gonna have some lovely toast with my bacon. Right done let's have a look see the shrinkage. Let's have a look. Yeah it's shrunk hasn't it. It's probably saved by half. Nice let's get it out on here. Sorry about that I think my arm was over the camera then. There you go that's what you get look. Let's get this toasted so I've got proper butter. Let's get that on there like that. This is thick, thick bread, thick white. white sort of toasty bread. We'll get that on there and we'll try that bit of there. We'll get this in the sandwich. So let's have a look at this. I'll put the lid on. Now I'm not having any sauce on there and I notice it's rindless as well. There's no rind on the bacon. You very rarely get that kind of bacon unless you get it from like the butchers or a farm shop. And if you've got one local by you, please support your local butchers and farm shops if you can. So that's That's what you get, look. Yeah, it's shriveled up, that one. So, yeah, I will try it. I'll get this cut in half, and then we'll go over to the table, and we'll try it. So, like I said, I did it in the air fryer. It doesn't take too long in there. I normally have it about 190, between 8 and 10 minutes, depends. So, yeah, let's try that. Lovely. Not too salty, neither. Mmm, it's nice. It is. It's... It was quite hard that bit. I do like it quite hard. Let's try this bit. This is a bit softer. This is sort of like the back bit, isn't it? Lovely. Meaty, porky, not too dry that bit neither, but not overly salty. Now, I don't mind overly salty bacon, but that's probably what the nitrites are. There's not as many in this. So it's not as salty. Now, do you have your bacon sandwich with brown sauce or red sauce or do you not have it with any? Me, I like bacon on its own. I like to taste the bacon in a sandwich. If I'm having sausage, I like brown sauce with sausages. Someone said in the comments once, said red sauce is for boys, brown sauce is for men. Yeah, let's try this. Oh, that is lovely. That is tasty. The butter as well helps it slide down, not dry. Apologise for talking with my mouth full. Can't help it sometimes. We'll put that other bit of bacon in there. It won't go, it won't get lost. It's tasty, it is. Two pound on a club card. Yeah, when it's cooked, it did look very thin before, but it's not too bad. It's not thick-cut bacon. Yeah, I don't know what the tolerance is with normal bacon, whether it, you know, when they chop it, slice it rather, what tolerances it's got to be in to be normal bacon or thick-cut. If you do know and you are a butcher out there. Please let me know, that'd be very interesting to know that one. Yeah, what denotes a thick cut bacon? How many millimetres is it on the slicer? Yeah, I do love bacon. Oh, hail the pig. A quote from Al Murray, top man. Right, thanks for watching. Please let me know what you think in the comments. I'm going to mark that. I'm going to give it a good eight and a half out of ten. Tasty. I think it's going that way now with a lot of things nitrite. I did notice in Tesco there's lots of other... Meats which are going nitrite free or added or you know, no added nitrites. I've done Aldi's. I think Aldi did one I've done that one and I've done naked bacon as well And if you've got any if you've got any recommendations, please let me know I've got a community tab on my front page of my channel and you can send us pictures of the food there I'm trying to get hold of a few bits and bobs. I've still got I've got a few other Christmas foods to do Pies and slices they'll be coming. I know, I know we're in November. I've done mince pies reviews as well in the past. Comparisons if you want to have a look in my comparison playlist. I've done mince pies. I've done all sorts and I love doing this. I love it. I hope you enjoy the videos. So thanks for watching. Take care. All the best and I will get back to you on the next one.