Food Review: Appleton Farms Premium Sliced Bacon
06/11/2021
By Mike Thayer
Bacon has been an American breakfast staple since Oscar Meyer introduced pre-packaged, pre-sliced bacon to the country in 1924. But it's not just for breakfast anymore.... Everything's better with bacon! The crispy, smoky, savory goodness of bacon is irresistable and makes just about whatever you're having for breakfast, lunch or dinner that much better.
As a bacon lover, I've always got a package of the stuff on hand. Opening up a 12 ounce package of Great Value bacon purchased at Walmart recently, I said to myself, "Self, I should do a review of bacon, find out who makes the best bacon at the most reasonable price." You can read the Great Value bacon review here, today, I'm reviewing Appleton Farms Premium Sliced Bacon from Aldi.
In making bacon for breakfast, I usually lay out six slices on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper and dress the bacon with some black pepper. I'll enjoy three of those slices for breakfast, saving three slices to enjoy with something for lunch or dinner, later. With the oven at 400 degrees, I like the oven method because the bacon cooks more evenly than on the stove top, it gets nice and crispy and there's less mess! And in the 20 minutes that it takes to get that perfect bacon, I can multi-task.
Appleton Farms bacon is good stuff! The slices are nice and even, easy to pull away from the package and place on the tray, it doesn't fall apart like the Great Value bacon did. It cooked up nice with typical - but not drastic (Great Value) - bacon shrinkage. The most important factor, the flavor was quite good. This bacon has nice marbling, a good meat to fat balance with that hint of smoke. This bacon deserves a spot on your breakfast plate, is worthy of topping a cheeseburger, would kick any dinner recipe or side dish up a notch.
The 16 ounce package of Appleton Farms Premium Sliced Bacon purchased at Aldi cost me a bit over $4 and is most definitely a repeat buy. It's Bachelor on the Cheap wallet friendly, it tastes good and I'm giving it 4 out of 5 stars.
Related: Food Review: Great Value bacon not such a great value
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I purchased a pound of Appleton bacon and at least 95% of it was fat if they feel this meets there standards I will not buy there products again. I took pictures and will send before and after pictures. Very dissatisfied with product
Posted by: William Zentmeyer | 07/02/2022 at 08:53 AM
This bacon was almost all fat, I will never buy this brand again
Posted by: C. Austin | 08/23/2022 at 02:24 PM
This bacon is incredibly good and satisfies your appetite!
Posted by: Manny | 12/06/2022 at 10:46 PM
This bacon sucks. Almost all fat and little flavor. Spend more get better. Had the whole family over for Christmas and was embarrassed by the extremally low quality. Never again!
Posted by: Greg | 12/31/2022 at 08:29 AM
Worst bacon all fat!!
Posted by: Amy | 12/31/2022 at 11:14 AM
I enjoyed this bacon. I cooked it in the oven like the article suggested. It cooked evenly, turned out nice and crisp and had good flavor. I think people saying it's bad don't know how to cook.
Posted by: Tom G. | 12/31/2022 at 01:34 PM
I just tried AF bacon for the first time. No complaints here. Made great BLT’s…for those that complain about fat. Look your package over before you throw it in your cart.
Posted by: Mark | 01/27/2023 at 03:18 PM
Appleton Farms is good bacon for a good price.
Posted by: Ryan | 03/18/2023 at 08:23 AM
Very disappointed in the bacon product...all fat! Bought 3 packages...that was a mistake...
Posted by: Debra lund | 03/26/2023 at 07:31 AM
This was the worst bacon I have ever had. All fat. No bacon flavor....at all!
Posted by: Joanie | 04/21/2023 at 03:51 PM
First a few observations.
Instead of complaining about fatty bacon- turn package over and see fat vs meat.
Some like fat I don’t. So I look for the ratio of fat vs meat.
I am noticing lack of flavor in bacon.
Accidentally bought the low sodium which I didn’t care for at all.
Is Appleton reducing its salt for costs savings ?
I’ll be stepping away from this brand until the flavor is improved
Posted by: Terry | 05/09/2023 at 12:34 PM
Bought appleton bacon from nice food market in Oneonta.now cooking it and find in each piece a2-3 hard pieces of grizzle or bone where it was cut too close to bone. Now have to go thru each before serving to guests..
Posted by: Jeannette | 07/13/2023 at 11:00 AM