Prepare Bacon for Beer Cheese Soup

Video Transcript

"This is Chef Michael Hable with Expert Village and today we are going to be making beer cheese soup. Our next step to do is we are going to be making bacon bits. So we are going to grab our bacon, put it on our cutting board. Basically cut it length wise once and we are just going to cut it straight down so it gets a nice size chunks. It is easiest to first cut your bacon when it first comes out of the refrigerator cause it is nice and firm. The longer it sets the softer it gets. That should do it. I will take our bacon over to the stove, throw it in a nice warm pan. You want to cook your bacon until it is nice and crisp cause it will not cook anymore while it is in the soup. So you want it to be crisp not limp and flimsy. Once our bacon is cooked we are going to take and throw it on some paper towels on a paper plate and let the oils run out. So when we add our bacon to our soup it does not add any oil texture to the soup and the bacon should be nice and crisp. "