Kansas City Food Blog

​If you've been looking for a way to add pork to your bedside table, then this do-it-yourself bacon lamp could be just the ticket.

Whether this falls under home improvement or not is likely in the eye of the lampholder. In the Flickr account of how to build the light, inventor Kris Kelley suggests that it might not smell like other lamps.
The step-by-step instructions involve carefully stretching bacon strips out between the wire frame of a lampshade. The bacon is then heated in an oven and with a heat lamp and sprayed with a polyacrylic in an attempt to preserve it.

Raw bacon is surprisingly tough and will hopefully be adopted by scrapbookers and do-it-yourselfers as the next great material. It's inexpensive, sustainable and delicious. Why, just this year, a bacon lattice became the Bacon Explosion -- the finest edible cross-stitch in mankind's history.  

But like all inventions that burn twice as bright, the bacon lampshade comes with an expiration date -- although it looks like it could last at least a week.

"It's only been five days. I'm sure it will start to rot soon. We shall see," notes Kris Kelley. That was over a year ago and Kelley hasn't posted to Flickr since April of this year. Here's hoping he's working on track lighting made from ribs or a pork chop chandelier. 

[Image via Flickr:kmkelley617]