We taste-tested pounds of bacon from the grocery store to find these sizzling winners.
BEST ORIGINAL: Ozark Trails Hickory Smoked and Peppered Bacon
Tasters loved this hand-trimmed winner for its campfire smokiness and deep pig flavor. Eating these hearty slabs, with their ideal meat-to-fat ratio, made one judge feel like a lumberjack.
BEST THICK-CUT: Jimmy Dean Thick Slice Premium Bacon
You might need a fork and knife to eat this chewy, country-style bacon. Much thicker than regular bacon strips, these slices are substantially delicious. Its salty, porky and fatty, raved one judge.
BEST TURKEY: Oscar Mayer Turkey Bacon
With their reddish-purple hue, chewy texture and buttery flavor, these turkey strips are almost as tasty as the real thingwith half the fat. It aint bacon, but it does a good job of fakin! noted one judge.
BEST SWEET: Beelers Uncured Apple-Cinnamon Bacon
This sugary, thick-cut bacon wooed judges with its cinnamony-sweet flavor. Each strip cooked up crisp around the edges, leaving the middle tender. One taster said, Its Christmas, isnt it?
BEST ODDBALL: Mountain Products Smokehouse Country Sliced Chipotle Southwest Smoked Bacon
This pork is slab-smoked with apple and hickory wood chips, then rubbed with pepper and a spicy chipotle seasoning. One taster wanted it hot out of the pan.