Mik Dickinson's British-style bacon

I can get fresh proper bacon like back home in the UK. None of the streaky stuff, but real proper bacon. See product photo attached.

I have found a farmyard butcher, registered and legal. The meat is laid in brine for three weeks and then hung to dry in the cooler for a week. There are are no forced water or salt injections used. This makes the bacon comparable to a "bio" product.

Then I cut and vacuum pack the meat to customers' specifications. All freezable.

Costs are €13 per kilo. To be fair, a minimum order of one kilo is required. An order takes four weeks to go through the process.

So if anyone is interested, please get in touch. Click to send me a personal message.

A big thank you to all existing and new customers.
Mik

Related topic: Other sources of British-style bacon in Munich

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I just ordered 5Kg! And will be having boxes of Walkers crisps as well if he can get the Worcester Sauce or Pickled Onion flavours.

And look at his comment below, the man knows what he is talking about!

Update: five supplied customers and all happy with the product. Another five to be supplied with the next delivery so I hope they will post and give their comments. Plus, Walkers crisps, nearly all flavours, also available from yours truly. Message me for orders.

Make that six happy customers now and waiting for feed back off another three.

Yup, bacon is good!

So now altogether that makes nine happy bacon butty people out there.

Make that ten happy customers! The bacon is great!

There are of course people on the other side of happy.

Well just got another positive feedback so so far that makes it 11 - 1 in favour of the product being priceworthy and good. Thanks for the previous info Dave, it has made me watch out more now when I slice the stuff.

Where can I get some, old buddy?

Hopefully the two customers I have delivered too in the last two days will post on how their bacon is.

Bacon was apparently very good. What a relief to not have to bring it back alongside my computer on flights. Thanks Mik! Still 1.8kg to go...

Yeah its not bad like, go for the thicker cut though.

Then you should ave told me Chalky mate. Can have it 12mm thick if you want, but thanks for the feed back Chalky, was nice. 14 - 1 in the products favour now.

Met up with a very nice good looking lady that invited me and my mate round for a chat. Thought I would take her a portion of the porky stuff as a pressie. She was over the moon with it and stuck an order in straight away.

Met up with a fine, friendly customer today and i hope she posts her bacon happiness on here sometime.

I am really looking forward to receiving my 3kgs of bacon. I plan on seeing if I can eat it all in one go.

Timmeh, from my experience that will be roughly 25 portions upward. One portion being 3 to 4 rashers at 3 to 4 mm thick.

Now I likes me bacon but even I would be struggling there, ooo ar!

I have as well tried the rashers and they are brilliant! Finally both quality and great value here in Munich - that's not so easy to find! Mik... I m looking forward to m' rashers on the 20th January! Thin slice, 1 or 2 k's worth, fine with me!

Next delivery to four customers on the 20.Jan.2007. All informed and will be nice to hear of their comments. Another enquiry today. God I would hate to be a pig living round here.

Very nice lady was delivered to yesterday. Delivery today to another three customers. Enquiries from two new customers yesterday evening. Really interesting phone conversation with one new customer. Finally found someone who has been here in Germany longer than me. Rariety indeed. Hopefully all will post their views on Toytown.

Mik, thank you!! REAL bacon. Just cooked up the first bag and it is simply fantastic. You have a return customer for sure. Now I just need to figure out how much bacon I go thru and plan accordingly so I'm always stocked.

Treated ourselves to a 'full english breakfast' last night! The bacon is fantastic, a big thank you to Mik.

I'll definitely be putting in another order , and sooner rather than later judging by the way it went down with the rest of the family!

Also, I'll be spreading the word around my non-TT friends.

Thanks again Mik, I'll be in touch soon...

I too had bacon for breakfast yesterday and today! Very impressed, and finally managed to convince my German hubby that bacon is a good thing.

INFO UPDATE:- Things are moving fast here. I now have some more orders to put in. To be sure that anyone considering an order I will be ordering on Wednesday again. Please try not to forget that it is a four week turn around on the product. Order now and its ready in four weeks time.

Mik

Morning Mik

When can we meet up? I've promised friends bacon instead of cake at our "monthy meeting for tea and coffee" next Sunday.

Cheers
Jane

Calm down no problem, i will be picking up the latest order this week to be delivered on the 24.02.07.Have informed all the 5 customers involved.
Then i hope to be placing a new order soon.Anyone interested or wanting to re order can you please start thinking now as it will be ready in 4 weeks time.That means ready around the end of March.

Hi Mik,
I see from your original post that 1kg is really the minimum order and also that you vacuum pack it.

I would like some bacon, but to be honest I don't use so much at a time. So, can you vacuum pack it in relatively small amounts?
Also, can it be frozen after delivery?

Regards,
MT

One more question:
Is there a choice as to the thickness of the cut too?

MT

I can answer this... Mik cuts the bacon as thick or thin as you want, and puts 4 rashers in each pack.

And Mik, could I have 3KG in the order that will completed at the end of March

Anybody have any good photos of this bacon? So we can see exactly what type of cut it is.

I think its just a code word for other things nudge, nudge

I could just imagine MT on his balcony, whiskey in one hand, big-fat-bacon-biffta in the other

PS: make mine a nine-bar of bacon please, I don’t care about the cut, but if you can put it in little airtight bags that would be smashing

Now now TBFB, where did that stray "e" come from?
Whisky!!!

As for balcony? No, don't have one of those.

MT

B.B. you boundah what are you implying that my bacon is a nudge nudge code word for something else LMAO!What is a nine bar of bacon? Strange how something so innocent as bacon can be misstrued eh? Editor bob i believe Grinner first placed a photo of the product when this all kicked off.Would like to openly say how thankfull i am to Grinner for telling me about this web site.

sorry

TBFB,
but there again you may actually prefer the offerings of Ireland and USA, at least you can then hide the flavours with ice!

Picked up the latest order and all 5 customers have been informed.New order has been placed and the butcher informed me that i can pick that up on the 21.03.07.So orders will be delivered on the 24.03.07.due to people getting in touch thinking i have the bacon already here please understand that i place orders at the butchers as they come in.When i pick up the last order i place a new one and after that it takes 4 weeks.This way it ensures customers that they always get fresh produce and its then freezable.

Hi Mik,
nice meeting you. I was back home by 2 and put the frying pan on before taking my coat off. Was really lovely .. real bacon butties :-)

Put me down for 2 kilos again and maybe more after my friends try it to-morrow.

Cheers Jane

Mik, the bacon is lovely, have emailed you with a new order.

Customer update:- have an order in at the moment for 20kg and most of that is already pre ordered.Butcher having touble keeping up because i only take a certain cut of the pig. The next order will be for April.Problem being is when i order, the butcher lays the bacon in brine within a couple of days and if i am always increasing the order then a mistake could happen and bacon could be took out that has not been laid in brine for so long hence a bad tasting bacon.This is something i do not want to happen.

Agree 110% per cent - like Jane, I had a panful of bacon on the stove before I even bothered taking my coat off. 3 very satisfied people here and there will certainly be more to come. This bacon doesn't shrink at all - takes some getting used to after the tissue-paper streaky you get over here - tastes wonderful and stays juicy. Neatly packaged in portions too. Mik is the High Priest of baconology!

After Sabine and I had had tea on the couch, crusoe arrived home and she made us bacon butties.
The bacon was lovely and surprisingly much better than the tea!

Another very satisfied customer here - please put us down for another 2 kilos whenever the next order is.
Great meeting up and see you in Riem for the next drop:)
Carole

Wow i am an high priest,and thank you very much for the comments.Orders for March are now full.Sorry about this but i explained in a recent posting why.Orders are now being taken for April.Will inform all customers privately in what month their order will be due.

I dont suppose that means that you can get a decent british sausage can you. I really dont understand why people think german sausages are the best, if you vist a butcher in the UK it will be better. Even tescos`s best is a better sausage

That's a matter of taste young man. I reckon the Germs have the sausage advantage to be honest.

Must agree with Timmeh on this one.I find personally that there is more meat in the German Sausage and there is a larger choice.In the end i stick with the Nürenberger or the ring sausage.

Orders are now being taken and these orders will be ready on the weekend 21.04.07.

Out of interest though - can you lay your hands on some fatty british bangers?

*yum*

Fab Mik, date has gone into the diary! *slaver*