By Erin Mosbaugh, Food & Wine
Depending on its smokiness, saltiness, fattiness and flavor, bacon can range from basic breakfast
staple to pure porcine perfection. Food & Wine editors sampledboth nationally available and mail-order artisanal brands to find out which bacon is truly the best. Here, Food & Wine reveals the results of their ultimate bacon taste test.
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Food & Wine's Bacon Taste Test
Top Pick: Vande Rose Farms Artisan Dry Cured Applewood Smoked(01 of15)
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Top Pick: Trader Joe's Uncured Apple Smoked(02 of15)
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D'Artagnan Uncured Applewood Smoked(03 of15)
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Tender Belly Dry Cured Maple Bacon(04 of15)
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Applegate Farms Hickory Smoked Uncured Sunday Bacon(05 of15)
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Trader Joe's Classic Sliced Dry Rubbed All Natural Uncured Bacon(06 of15)
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Niman Ranch Applewood Smoked Uncured Bacon(07 of15)
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D'Artagnan Uncured Hickory Smoked(08 of15)
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Hormel Original Black Label Bacon(09 of15)
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Oscar Mayer Naturally Hardwood Smoked(10 of15)
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Wellshire Smoked Maple Uncured(11 of15)
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Nodine's Smokehouse Apple Smoke Flavored Bacon(12 of15)
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Farmland Foods Hickory Smoked(13 of15)
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Nueske's Thin Sliced Applewood Smoked(14 of15)
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Broadbent's Applewood Smoked Country Bacon(15 of15)
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