Our friend Michael of Herbivoracious (and of that splendid spicy chickpea stew) tells us, to our surprise, that bacon salt is both vegetarian and vegan! To demonstrate, he makes a vegan Farro with Collard Greens and Bacon Salt.
More thoughts below...
Like Michael we try to avoid artificial seasonings, but if any of you are going vegan for the New Year (permanently or temporarily) and need a way to ease off that meaty diet of the holidays, this might be helpful. Your Nicorette, as it were...
Have you ever tried bacon salt?
(Images by Michael Natkin of Herbivoracious)
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I love me me some bacon, but I don't know about bacon salt. I *do* know about farro, which is my new favorite grain ever since I had the farro risotto at Perilla last month. I tried to re-create it, with mixed results...
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According to the Bacon Salt website, where the ingredients are listed, the "artificial and natural flavors" contain milk. Therefore, not vegan.
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I stand corrected on the vegan-ness! I read the ingredients and didn't see anything obviously dairy, but it does say "contains milk ingredients". Maybe the maltodextrin or something? In any case it is vegetarian but NOT vegan.
Thanks,
Michael
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Whatever it is it's nahsty.
view art's profile
I actually rather enjoy Bacon Salt on scrambled eggs, at least. I have yet to come up with a second really good vehicle for it. Perhaps potatoes.
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The Hickory Smoked version contains no stated milk ingredients, but it does list lactic acid (which can be dairy or plant based) as one of the final ingredients. You'd need to contact the compant to ask which type of lactic acid they use.
People should note that all versions of the salt do contain MSG, which is not so good.
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Bacon salt popcorn = delicious!
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Do not like. I got a bottle for myself and a couple as gifts for Christmas and I think it tastes like bacos. Plus, it has partially hydrogenated oil and MSG.
I've tried it on a few vegetables, in potato soup and on grits. No me gusta. There's actually quite a little bacon salt cult here in Austin. There's just no accounting for taste.
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If it has any sort of "smoke" flavoring I'd avoid it like the plague. I have a friend who will eat the most vile stuff imaginable, but she works in a toxicology lab and you know what she and her junk food eating co-workers call smoke flavoring? "Liquid cancer". Appetizing, no? I'll take my carcinogens on a real piece of bacon if I'm going to go for it. This sort of stuff reminds me of replacing butter with hydrogenated soybean oil (margarine) because it's more "healthy". Missing the forest for the trees.
regards,
trillium
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Many margarines aren't hydrogenated any more. I'd rather use that than fatty butter on everyday things.
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