The bacon explosion explodes!
By Owen Morris in Blog-B-Q
Wednesday, Jan. 28 2009 @ 10:00AM
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| From the New York Times slideshow. Left to right: Aaron Chronister and Jason Day. |
Shortly before Christmas, two Kansas Citians put a barbecue recipe on their BBQ Addicts blog, which was receiving about about as much traffic as you'd expect for a local barbecue blog. Today, Jason Day and Aaron Chronister are on the front page of The New York Times' dining section, all thanks to the bacon explosion.
Actually, it's more a bacon
implosion: a woven web of uncooked bacon laid out and covered with
uncooked sausage, which is then covered with chopped-up pieces of
crispy bacon, wrapped into a log shape,
placed on a cooker and finally covered with barbecue sauce. Chronister
and Days' invention has now been viewed nearly 400,000 times.
"I knew it was a good post but we weren't expecting that many hits because of Christmas. And then it turned out Christmas was our busiest day ever," Chronister tells me. Day is a Kansas City native while Chronister moved to the area from Arkansas in 2000. "We got in a couple of competitions and placed 37th in the [American Royal] overall and fifth in the brisket category and now we're hooked... There's an anything category in some competitions, and we're definitely going to enter the bacon explosion into that."
But what happened with The Times? "They called and a reporter came and we made, I believe, four bacon explosions for the photo shoot.... It really shows the power of the Internet."
Instead of sitting back and taking it all in, the duo is hard at work. A recipe book may be in the works and Day and Chronister still have their Burnt Finger Barbecue team. "We're making at least six for Super Bowl parties and people keep calling in more and we'll keep doing them."
"I knew it was a good post but we weren't expecting that many hits because of Christmas. And then it turned out Christmas was our busiest day ever," Chronister tells me. Day is a Kansas City native while Chronister moved to the area from Arkansas in 2000. "We got in a couple of competitions and placed 37th in the [American Royal] overall and fifth in the brisket category and now we're hooked... There's an anything category in some competitions, and we're definitely going to enter the bacon explosion into that."
But what happened with The Times? "They called and a reporter came and we made, I believe, four bacon explosions for the photo shoot.... It really shows the power of the Internet."
Instead of sitting back and taking it all in, the duo is hard at work. A recipe book may be in the works and Day and Chronister still have their Burnt Finger Barbecue team. "We're making at least six for Super Bowl parties and people keep calling in more and we'll keep doing them."
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