What's the difference between bacon and rasher?

Bacon


Definition:

  • (n.) The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Nevertheless, Richard Bacon MP, a member of the Public Accounts Committee, who has tirelessly tracked failings in NHS IT, said last night: "I think the chances that Lorenzo will be turned into a credible and popular product are vanishingly small.
  • (2) Essaid Belkalem is live to the danger and saves his side's bacon.
  • (3) Russia has stepped up its battle against parmesan cheese, Danish bacon and other European delicacies, announcing it plans to incinerate contraband shipments on the border as soon as they are discovered.
  • (4) Parasite kinetics were followed in pigs receiving A. suum eggs as repeated trickle inoculations at two dose levels beginning at a body weight of 25 kg until their slaughter at 90 kg (baconers).
  • (5) Conservative committee member Richard Bacon suggested it was "purely artificial".
  • (6) 2 Ten minutes before the potatoes are ready, melt 25g of the butter in a large nonstick frying pan and fry the bacon until lightly coloured.
  • (7) In place of prosciutto: • Bacon sliced and fried until crisp.
  • (8) It has been investigated the function of the anal sphincters following Bacon type pull-through operation.
  • (9) Speaking about Bacon, Barker said: “[He] speaks to the soul.
  • (10) Guar gum was incorporated into 10 g carbohydrate portions of cheese biscuits and 20 g carbohydrate portions of pizza and egg and bacon flan.
  • (11) Meanwhile, Nicholson and Hextall were surprised to learn from one committee member, Richard Bacon, that CSC had been offering some trusts an alternative system not owned by IBA.
  • (12) Term for "excess weight due to emotional overeating": grief bacon.
  • (13) That’s why instantly recognisable trophy pieces – a Picasso, a Giacometti, a Klimt, a Bacon – command such ridiculously high prices.
  • (14) Mexican-style burgers (topped with salsa, bacon, cheese) are sensational.
  • (15) The new gallery will display Hirst's over 2,000-strong art collection, including pieces by Francis Bacon, Jeff Koons and street artist Banksy.
  • (16) But most of the collection, including works by Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Francis Bacon and many others, remains in the vaults and basement.
  • (17) If there’s nothing new, there are always those alarming pictures of him doing battle with a bacon butty.
  • (18) But for now, Miliband seems ever more solitary, a lone figure trying to keep hold of the bacon sandwich that looks all too symbolic of an omni-crumble to come.
  • (19) 38 with extensive, and 12 with limited disease, were treated with BACON.
  • (20) Or on one he didn't like: "I can admire Bacon's crafty use of paint, though it tends towards gimmickry.

Rasher


Definition:

  • (n.) A thin slice of bacon.
  • (n.) A California rockfish (Sebastichthys miniatus).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Brooklyn resident is also a regular egg eater – although she prefers hers scrambled and served with four rashers of bacon.
  • (2) In other words, if 100 people ate a sandwich containing three rashers of bacon (about 50g) every day of their lives, then 18% more of them would get bowel cancer, which equates to seven rather than six.
  • (3) Eating 50g of processed meat every day – the equivalent to one sausage or two rashers of bacon – increases the risk by 19%, compared to people who do not eat processed meat at all.
  • (4) Serves 8-10 2 small onions, finely chopped 2 sticks of celery, finely chopped 4 garlic cloves, minced Olive oil 1 large carrot, grated 2 bay leaves 2 sprigs of rosemary 4 rashers smoked bacon, finely chopped 500g pork mince 500g beef mince Salt and black pepper 400ml red wine 2 tins of chopped tomatoes 30g dried porcini mushrooms, rehydrated in hot water with a splash of milk 600-800g dried tagliatelle, cooked to serve Parmesan, grated, to serve 1 Over a low heat, gently soften the onions, celery and garlic in a little olive oil for about 15 minutes.
  • (5) Serves 6 bacon 6 rashers butter 50g leeks 800g chicken stock 1 litre parsley a handful, roughly chopped For the croûtes olive oil 6 tbsp rosemary needles 10g bread 6 slices Dice the bacon finely.
  • (6) Serves 4 1.2kg potatoes, preferably Maris Piper or King Edward, peeled and cut into roughly 4cm chunks 1 small green savoy cabbage (about 450g), trimmed and finely shredded 75g butter, cubed 6 rindless smoked streaky bacon rashers, cut into 3cm pieces 6 spring onions, trimmed and finely sliced 125ml double cream 4 large fridge-cold eggs Flaked sea salt Freshly ground black pepper 1 Put the potatoes in a large saucepan and cover with cold water.
  • (7) Some brave souls tackle the monstrous breakfast roll, which offers five sausages, three rashers of bacon, plus black pudding, egg and beans.
  • (8) The rasher essayists were holed up in asylums until they “recovered”: in other words, until they publicly recanted their views.
  • (9) In the original, the recipe suggested using bacon rashers 50mm thick.
  • (10) Liver and bacon Serves 1, takes 30 minutes ¼ lb liver 1 or 2 rashers bacon 1 onion 1 tomato (optional) 2 teaspoon flour Begin gently frying rashers and when they have given off some fat, add slices of liver that you have dipped in flour, and onion chopped very fine; fry quickly on each side; then lower gas and cook very slowly for about 7 minutes each side or more depending on the thickness of the slices.
  • (11) One pan, one ring: how to cook Sixties bedsit food Poor man's goulash Serves 1, takes 30 minutes 2 tomatoes or tomato paste 1 onion 1 or 2 rashers bacon 2 potatoes paprika (essential) salt sour milk, optional Start by boiling the potatoes for at least 10 minutes.
  • (12) Roast bacon and parsley sauce Serves four 16 rashers of good-quality unsmoked bacon, about 5mm thick.
  • (13) Eating two rashers of bacon a day can increase the risk of pancreatic cancer by 19% and the risk goes up if a person eats more, experts have said.
  • (14) Mario Batali is a barrel-chested, thick-forearmed American-Italian chef whose love of the pig is so developed, indeed so intense, that for Christmas his kids gave him a scarf woven to look like a rasher of streaky bacon.
  • (15) Spencer called them "a symphony of rashers of bacon" with "tea-making obligato" and said they depict a banality of life which was, for those sent there from the battlefield, a "heaven in a hell of war".

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