Have you ever thought, “I’ve made bacon ice cream and bacon vodka and eaten bacon wrapped in caramel hanging from a trapeze, but I’ve never melted a cookie sheet in half using a welding torch made from bacon”?
(That last one caught your attention, didn’t it?)
Well, in my personal quest to bring you all things porcine, I’ve unfortunately found that you just can’t melt a cookie sheet in half with a welding torch made of bacon. But PopSci.com proves you can do it with a torch made of prosciutto – and that’s totally from the same animal.
This is the ultimate don’t try this at home kitchen technique. It is supercool, though.
Sure, people who don’t share your passion for the magical animal will ask stupid questions like, “Why would anyone do this?” and “What kind of moron would even dream of this?” Your answer: Who cares? They just melted a cookie sheet with pig!
So go here to get your swine on. There’s a video about halfway down.
– Dennis Lowery
This article appears in May 1-31, 2009.