Bacon and egg tacos

[dingleberryswitzer 2724]

Do you like the bacon diced and mixed with the eggs ?  Or just scrambled eggs with a strip of bacon on top?

 

I get pissed when the bacon doesn’t break apart (undercooked)  and I take a bite and the entire strip comes out of the taco. But sometimes if it’s diced up I feel like they short change you because you can’t tell if there’s an entire piece in there. 

[conVINCEd 21469]

9 minutes ago, dingleberryswitzer said:

Do you like the bacon diced and mixed with the eggs ?  Or just scrambled eggs with a strip of bacon on top?

 

I get pissed when the bacon doesn’t break apart (undercooked)  and I take a bite and the entire strip comes out of the taco. But sometimes if it’s diced up I feel like they short change you because you can’t tell if there’s an entire piece in there. 

1 has a higher ceiling and a lower floor.  I’ve been to places where it seems like they throw store-bought bacon bits in there, but if done properly it’s better.

[Mo Horn 8842]

Perfect place for the porque no los dos gif

[HenryJames 66052]

Diced or gtfo.

[dingleberryswitzer 2724]

27 minutes ago, Mo Horn said:

Perfect place for the porque no los dos gif

Hmm you may be on to something

[irishtexan 11519]

Roughly broken into two to four large chunks

[hookemATL 11734]

This is less about how the bacon enters the taco than how the bacon is cooked. If properly done, the bacon will crumble with each bite as a strip or you can pre crumble. If you undercook the bacon, you won’t be eating the taco either way because you would have killed yourself out of shame. 

[Js1 85337]

7 minutes ago, hookemATL said:

This is less about how the bacon enters the taco than how the bacon is cooked. If properly done, the bacon will crumble with each bite as a strip or you can pre crumble. If you undercook the bacon, you won’t be eating the taco either way because you would have killed yourself out of shame. 

This. 

[ChickenSandwich 9836]

There was a shaggy thread for this. 
 

At a restaurant, if you get crumbles, you are getting the cheapest bacon they can buy from their distributor. Comes in a case of four 10lb bags. They aren’t cooking up thick cut fatty bacon to then crumble, you getting the scraps.  (Think what’s left over after McDonalds gets their cut)

[Hank_Hill 18807]

21 hours ago, HenryJames said:

Diced or gtfo.

This. If a place is spooning regular scrambled eggs on a tortilla then adding a strip of bacon I know I’m in gringoville

[TonyTexas 10513]

26 minutes ago, Hank_Hill said:

This. If a place is spooning regular scrambled eggs on a tortilla then adding a strip of bacon I know I’m in gringoville

If you’re eating an egg and bacon BT then you’re in gringoville. Chorizo or barbacoa for the win. 

[Deej 76791]

13 minutes ago, TonyTexas said:

Chorizo or barbacoa for the win. 

And machacado con huevo tacos.

[TexasHooch 5122]

I haven't bought a breakfast taco in about 10 years, but I make it as I preferred it; Roughly chopped, and generously sprinkled over the finished egg in the tortilla.  

[Satoshi 129]

2 hours ago, TonyTexas said:

If you’re eating an egg and bacon BT then you’re in gringoville. Chorizo or barbacoa for the win. 

False.

No authentic, self respecting place will just slap a strip of bacon on scrambled eggs and roll up the tortilla. The results of this poll are troubling. How could people favor such a lazy ass method of making breakfast tacos? You have to get the flavors all mixed up. 

[956 Worldwide 34715]

Grew up in the RGV and during my sports days are a bacon egg taco almost every morning. Diced or GTFO. Never saw strips until I moved north.

Proper procedure: Fry the bacon to just short of crispy then rough dice. Cook the scrambled eggs in the bacon grease and stir in the diced bacon. Eat with plenty of salsa and/or pico de gallo. That way the eggs are all bacony and the whole thing is the same temperature. 

[WhatTheBuck 28781]

On 9/11/2021 at 12:01 PM, hookemATL said:

This is less about how the bacon enters the taco than how the bacon is cooked. If properly done, the bacon will crumble with each bite as a strip or you can pre crumble. If you undercook the bacon, you won’t be eating the taco either way because you would have killed yourself out of shame. 

You’ve never met Pato del Muerto, have you?

[Somnio 751]

Crack eggs in bowl, add salt and pepper, and scramble.

Chop bacon when still raw.

Cook bacon low and slow in cast iron skillet.

When bacon is cooked to your liking pour eggs onto skillet over bacon pieces.

No, you do not drain the grease beforehand.

Cook until eggs are done.

Scoop into flour tortilla, and add any cheese or salsa you desire.

Devour.

[Neonmoon 38129]

On 9/11/2021 at 12:01 PM, hookemATL said:

This is less about how the bacon enters the taco than how the bacon is cooked. If properly done, the bacon will crumble with each bite as a strip or you can pre crumble. If you undercook the bacon, you won’t be eating the taco either way because you would have killed yourself out of shame. 

This is the correct answer

[billfromlaketravis 11480]

It seems like most of the Houston taco trucks/joints mix the bacon with the eggs. I suspect this is much cheaper and easier to prepare. 

I still picked bacon strips. A good crunchy piece of hotel quality bacon on a taco is delightful. Either way, I’m good with extra spicy green sauce. 

[BurntOrange&White 39933]

Either really

[Horn Draoi 255]

2 hours ago, Somnio said:

Crack eggs in bowl, add salt and pepper, and scramble.

Chop bacon when still raw.

Cook bacon low and slow in cast iron skillet.

When bacon is cooked to your liking pour eggs onto skillet over bacon pieces.

No, you do not drain the grease beforehand.

Cook until eggs are done.

Scoop into flour tortilla, and add any cheese or salsa you desire.

Devour.

This guy gets it!

[ChickenSandwich 9836]

Enchiladas y mas bacon potato egg and cheese. 
 

 

[formermav43 4606]

When I do it at home, it’s chopped up, and the result is much more than 1 strip per taco. It’s also not burned to a crisp, so I guess I’m in the minority on both counts.

[DalTxHornFan 3101]

The only way to do a bacon and egg taco wrong is to make them with a damn flour tortilla [duck for incoming fire!].  Heavily grilled corn tortillas make for a much better taco experience.

[ztejas 43449]

9 minutes ago, DalTxHornFan said:

The only way to do a bacon and egg taco wrong is to make them with a damn flour tortilla [duck for incoming fire!].  Heavily grilled corn tortillas make for a much better taco experience.

You're allowed to be wrong here. No big deal.

[BurntOrange&White 39933]

8 hours ago, DalTxHornFan said:

The only way to do a bacon and egg taco wrong is to make them with a damn flour tortilla [duck for incoming fire!].  Heavily grilled corn tortillas make for a much better taco experience.

Yeah, you're getting negged, corn tortillas on breakfast tacos is ass, my dude.

[Landomatic 3813]

9 hours ago, DalTxHornFan said:

The only way to do a bacon and egg taco wrong is to make them with a damn flour tortilla [duck for incoming fire!].  Heavily grilled corn tortillas make for a much better taco experience.

[Somnio 751]

10 hours ago, DalTxHornFan said:

The only way to do a bacon and egg taco wrong is to make them with a damn flour tortilla [duck for incoming fire!].  Heavily grilled corn tortillas make for a much better taco experience.

[Mitch Cumsteen 18549]

 

On 9/11/2021 at 11:01 AM, hookemATL said:

This is less about how the bacon enters the taco than how the bacon is cooked. If properly done, the bacon will crumble with each bite as a strip or you can pre crumble. If you undercook the bacon, you won’t be eating the taco either way because you would have killed yourself out of shame. 

100% this. And it's also why whenever I order a bacon and egg, I'm also getting an insurance taco like a bean and cheese or potato and egg in case they fuck up the bacon. Same thing if you can't trust a place's carne guisada to be funky fatty chewy gristle. Insure your car. Insure your house. Insure your health. Insure your taco.

[Brisketexan 105139]

I'm fine with them either way.  I PREFER lots of bacon, preferably kind of thick, chopped up and cooked until reasonably crisp, and mixed in with the eggs.  But I'm also happy to get a taco from Taco Shack, where they use good, fluffy scrambled eggs and top it with a strip of bacon.  Because either way.....there's bacon.

Oh....and flour tortillas.  This is the way.  We are adjacent to northern Mexico, which is mostly flour tortilla country.  It's the traditional base. And they hold up to the robust challenges of a breakfast taco.

[Dutch 4465]

3 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

I PREFER lots of bacon

Edited September 15, 2021 by Dutch

[mdleast 8289]

The ONLY good thing about 11:00 am games: my wife’s Juan in a Million style breakfast tacos:

[CoachTex 2624]

On 9/14/2021 at 11:17 PM, DalTxHornFan said:

The only way to do a bacon and egg taco wrong is to make them with a damn flour tortilla [duck for incoming fire!].  Heavily grilled corn tortillas make for a much better taco experience.

 

On 9/15/2021 at 7:30 AM, BurntOrange&White said:

Yeah, you're getting negged, corn tortillas on breakfast tacos is ass, my dude.

He is from Baja Oklahoma so give him a break.  If your ordering "bacon" and not tocino your doing it wrong.

[Anastasis 23469]

10 hours ago, mdleast said:

The ONLY good thing about 11:00 am games: my wife’s Juan in a Million style breakfast tacos:

I say gotdamn. 

[Anastasis 23469]

On 9/11/2021 at 11:01 AM, hookemATL said:

This is less about how the bacon enters the taco than how the bacon is cooked. If properly done, the bacon will crumble with each bite as a strip or you can pre crumble. If you undercook the bacon, you won’t be eating the taco either way because you would have killed yourself out of shame. 

This.  Had bacon strip, egg, and cheese tacos this morning on way out the door to soccer games with the kids.  Extra crispy. Nothing against the chop at all, and do that all the time, but crispy strip does very nicely.  

[Anastasis 23469]

On 9/14/2021 at 11:17 PM, DalTxHornFan said:

The only way to do a bacon and egg taco wrong is to make them with a damn flour tortilla [duck for incoming fire!].  Heavily grilled corn tortillas make for a much better taco experience.

[Steamboat1874 4063]

On 9/14/2021 at 11:17 PM, DalTxHornFan said:

The only way to do a bacon and egg taco wrong is to make them with a damn flour tortilla [duck for incoming fire!].  Heavily grilled corn tortillas make for a much better taco experience.

Shit I like a flour tortilla with a corn tortilla inside of that.

Extra points if you melt cheese between them before you load it with eggs, bacon, potatoes, etc......

Edited October 18, 2021 by Steamboat1874

[Deej 76791]

37 minutes ago, Steamboat1874 said:

Shit I like a flour tortilla with a corn tortilla inside of that.

Extra points if you melt cheese between them before you load it with eggs, bacon, potatoes, etc......

[Deej 76791]

On 10/16/2021 at 1:44 PM, mdleast said:

The ONLY good thing about 11:00 am games: my wife’s Juan in a Million style breakfast tacos:

Her regular taco ain't bad, either.

[EuroHorn 3265]

On 10/18/2021 at 7:42 PM, Deej said:

Her regular taco ain't bad, either.

except for the sour cream...

[Deej 76791]

Just now, EuroHorn said:

except for the sour cream...

[WillUSAF 226]

I made some this morning actually....diced bacon (cooked to crispy in a cast iron skillet), scrambled eggs then I added a carolina reaper pepper (from my garden) for some heat

[jeevsie 3734]

Mama always made them @Somnio's method.  That's how I still do 'em.

[Anastasis 23469]

On 10/16/2021 at 1:44 PM, mdleast said:

The ONLY good thing about 11:00 am games: my wife’s Juan in a Million style breakfast tacos:

CAn we get a high level framework for these tacos.

[mdleast 8289]

9 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

CAn we get a high level framework for these tacos.

I'll do you one better:  here is the recipe we came across and that my wife initlally used (and has since perfected):

 

https://www.macheesmo.com/breakfast-tacos/

 

Biggest takeaway from the recipe what has been mentioned in this thread before:  dice up the bacon, fry it in the pan and put the eggs in with all of the bacon grease.  

Also, I don't put potatoes in my breakfast tacos.  Potatoes are for suckers.

Enjoy

[Wally Pryor 5261]

On 10/16/2021 at 1:44 PM, mdleast said:

The ONLY good thing about 11:00 am games: my wife’s Juan in a Million style breakfast tacos:

Fresh japs vs. pickled japs and it's completely on.

[Anastasis 23469]

8 hours ago, mdleast said:

I'll do you one better:  here is the recipe we came across and that my wife initlally used (and has since perfected):

 

https://www.macheesmo.com/breakfast-tacos/

 

Biggest takeaway from the recipe what has been mentioned in this thread before:  dice up the bacon, fry it in the pan and put the eggs in with all of the bacon grease.  

Also, I don't put potatoes in my breakfast tacos.  Potatoes are for suckers.

Enjoy

You wife's taco looks much better than what they throw together. 

[mdleast 8289]

I'll also throw in that when you are making these (as opposed to a normal bacon and eggs breakfast where I eat leaner, less caloric center cut bacon from wherever), go for higher quality bacon.  For these we used a dry cured hickory bacon from Central Market.  Very tasty and way more calories (and flavor) than than the normal bacon we get).

[Underdog 28633]

On 10/20/2021 at 9:58 AM, EuroHorn said:

except for the sour cream...

Like that would turn off Uncle Boobs.  

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