“Bacon, bacon! Where’s the bacon? I smell bacon!” Words from thirty years ago surface in my mind as I write this blog. The title of this post seems relevant during these crazy times, but I wasn’t thinking about grocery store shortages. I was thinking of how our three kids are exactly like that determined golden retriever in the famous Beggin’ Strips commercial. “Bacon, bacon gotta be bacon…There’s only one thing that smells like bacon and that’s BACON!” It is the smell of bacon cooking that gets them out of bed on sluggish mornings or the scent of brinner that gets them off Minecraft and into the kitchen in the evenings.
Quick bacon for Baked Potato Night this week!
These Bacon Cookers are ready to be unloaded from the kiln.
Since we cook every meal at home, it is the perfect opportunity to use our Bacon Cooker. We are using this time to test out some new recipes. We made Baked Potato Soup from our old standby cookbook, Southern Living, the other night. It was so rich and comforting on a cool, gray day! (The downside was that it had a lot of milk in it, and of course, milk is a precious commodity these days!) This week, my daughter and I look forward to baking some Maple Bacon Cupcakes. We have wanted to make them for a while, and I recently bought some new icing tools. Of course, for all this cooking, we use one of our Blue Sage Pottery Bacon Cookers that Kent (a.k.a Dad) made.
Kent fired the kiln over the weekend and unloaded it this morning. Hundreds of new Bacon Cookers are in the kiln. As you probably know, each of our Bacon Cookers is made by hand on the potter’s wheel and dipped in glazes made from scratch (just like our cooking). Our unique finishes come from how we combine and layer our glazes. There are so many variable color possibilities achieved by layering glazes, and we love that! We hope that all the options for different colors allow our customers to find the perfect Bacon Cooker for their kitchen!