The Great British Bacon Butty - Bacon Sandwich

Total Time: 9 mins Preparation Time: 2 mins Cook Time: 7 mins

Ingredients

• 2 -3 slices back bacon, per person
• 2 slices of farmhouse bread, 1cm to 2cm thick, per person, or
• 1 crusty roll, per person
• butter (optional)
• hp steak sauce (optional)
• worcestershire sauce (optional)

Recipe

• 1 cook the bacon under a preheated oven grill for seven minutes at about 240c/475f - turning half way through the cooking time.
• 2 cook until crispy, but not burnt or too dry.
• 3 (you can also fry the bacon in a pan if you wish).
• 4 butter the two slices of bread and place the grilled or fried bacon inside the two slices of bread to make a sandwich.
• 5 add sauces to taste.
• 6 enjoy!
• 7 the bread can also be toasted if you wish! and, you can make this sandwich with a crusty bread roll.
• 8 the scientist's formula:.
• 9 four researchers at the department of food science at leeds university in the uk spent more than 1,000 hours testing 700 variations on the traditional bacon sandwich.
• 10 they tried different types and cuts of bacon, cooking techniques, types of oil and a range of cooking times at different temperatures.
• 11 a shortlist was then tested with computers to measure the texture of each sandwich.
• 12 fifty volunteers also judged each sandwich according to its taste, texture and flavour.
• 13 the formula is: n = c + {fb (cm) . fb (tc)} + fb (ts) + fc . ta, where n=force in newtons required to break the cooked bacon, fb=function of the bacon type, fc=function of the condiment/filling effect, ts=serving temperature, tc=cooking time, ta=time or duration of application of condiment/filling, cm=cooking method, c=newtons required to break uncooked bacon.