rashers

Cured pork portions

Rashers are slices of bacon or ham, especially in British and Irish usage.

The word appears most often in the phrase rashers of bacon, referring to the thin strips served at breakfast.

In American English, strips or slices is more common, but rashers appears on menus aiming for British flavor.

bacon

pork

Pig as food

streaky · Irish · British · smoked · unsmoked · rind · fat · lean · middle · collar

texture

crispy

Brittle and snapping

  • crunchyBreaking with sound
  • chewyResisting easy biting
  • limpLacking firmness or rigidity

charred · browned · caramelized · crackling · burnt · rendered · fatty · lean · thick · thin

fry-up

eggs

Reproductive cells in shells

tomatoes · mushrooms · ketchup · café · hangover · fry

flavor

smoky

Filled with combustion haze

hickory · maple · peppered · seasoned · cured · rich · meaty · sweet · glazed · applewood

cooking

sizzling

Hissing from heat

  • panShallow cooking vessel
  • fryingCooking in shallow fat
  • griddleFlat metal cooking surface

grill · crispy · golden · rendered · curled · spatter · tongs · skillet · grease · flip

Categories
Opposites
portion size/wholeness

rasherswholes

Complete unified amounts

joint · pork belly · side of bacon

meat preparation/cut type

rasherslardons

Diced cured pork fat

bacon bits · chunks · ham hock

Family

rasher, rashest

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G