Does anyone know where I could get really good quality rashers?

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Id reccomend Hicks in dun laoghaire for both rashers and sausages for full irish.
 
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ajapale said:
I like "dry cure". A crowd called "Rudds" based in Birr Co Offaly do them. Availiable in Supervalu.
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Rudds also do a pudding "Roulade" which is basically a white pudding INSIDE a black pudding if you can imagine such a thing. It's excellent.

In response to the health-conscious poster, frying bacon is vastly superior to grilling, particularly if your bacon is not of a high quality. Grilling only results in strips of salty leather. Who wants that on a bacon sarnie? :p
 
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Thanks Litewaite. I never thought of the market in Dun Laoghaire. It's very good so I'm off there next Sunday. I've tried Rudds a long time ago - mustn't have been impressed because I haven't got them since. It's all the white watery stuff and shrinkage as well as the poor taste that puts me off as the other posters said.
 
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Piece of fried bread with a small touch of salt beats a rasher any day. Still miss O'Gorman's sausages. Galtee Tender Cure rashers (slightly smoked) aren't too bad. Agree with the grilling option tho'.
 
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Tesco's smoked streaky bacon. Pop under the grill for about 7 mins and you have the perfect crispy bacon and no white slime!
 
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I've given up on trying to fry bacon. Most rashers have so much water in them that you end up boiling them in the frying pan. At least when you grill them, the water can drop down into the bottom of the grill pan. The downside is not having the bacon fat for frying the eggs.
 
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Reviving an old-ish thread here instead of starting another one. I'm disappointed lately with the thick-cut rashers I've bought because they always shrink like mad under the grill. I prefer the maple cured ones, but it's hard to find ones which don't shrink a lot.

Anyone got any suggestions, or should I try my local butcher?

Edit: Sorry - only noticed now that this thread shouldn't really be in this forum, I think. Should it be moved to the Misc. Non-financial questions one?
 
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The Rudds Dry Cure (and also Dunnes Own Brand Dry Cure and Lidl Dry Cure) dont shrink as there is no added water.

Consumer Issues is the correct forum.

ajapale said:
I like "dry cure". A crowd called "Rudds" based in Birr Co Offaly do them. Availiable in Supervalu.

"Dry cured by hand in the old traditional style. No added water, resulting in no shrinking during cooking and a dry yet succulent product when cooked"

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The market in the Peoples Park, in Dun Laoghaire, has a couple of butchers selling rashers etc. I have had them and they are very good. Jane Russell (not the film star) has her own stand of home-made sausages and rashers which she sometimes has cooked ones for tasting. I've bought hers and some from the other butchers there and they are 'real' rashers.
 
My rashers of choice are [broken link removed] mild-cure pale back rashers (grilled). The only place I've seen them is my local Gala.
 
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