How can I make bacon powder?

My wife loves bacon that's cooked to the cusp of burning, so I've got a good knowledge of the properties of bacon on that fine line. It's so brittle, you can powder it very easily.

I myself would probably just stick it in a plastic bag, and whack it a few times with a pan, but I don't see any reason why you couldn't put it in the blender. I have a nice mortar and pestle I use for powdering things, but that's probably overkill in this case.

You can make bacon powder simply by frying some bacon until it becomes crispy (don't let it burn) when done place on paper towel for until cool then wizz it in a food processor with a little fine powdered sugar. Keep wizzing until it stops sticking and you have a fine powder.

I suggest cooking the bacon in a fry pan with some water. This allows the fat to render and produces crispy bacon.

1. Add enough water to cover the bacon in a fry pan
2. Cook until fat is rendered and water evaporated
3. Cool bacon
4. Pulverize in a food processor

Alternate Modernist Method
1. Render bacon as in step 1 and 2 above
2. Separate the liquid fat and cool
3. Combine bacon fat with tapioca maltodextrin in 60:40 ratio by weight
4. Pulverize in a food processor

To make the bacon to make power out of I have a trick.

Place the bacon on a wire pan grate and let them cook in a oven on medium heat. The fat will then drip off leaving a bacon-chip.
(Remember to have something below collecting the dripping fat.)

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(Wire pan grate: An non-English, I am not sure I use the right term. Normally in for the oven there is a wire-grid which you can place pot and pans on. Am I using the right term?
So please edit here!)

You could try to freeze the cooked bacon. Then quickly put it in a cold blender or coffee grinder. I don't like bacon that's well done I think it tastes burnt. Using this method will allow you to get it in a powder before the fat starts to melt. The ultimate would be to put the bacon in liquid nitrogen then blend it.

If you literally want a powder, you can use a standard blade coffee grinder. Not the ones where the coffee goes in one end and then comes out another, but the ones where you take off the lid, fill it up, put lid back on and grind, then dump it back out (just a blade at the bottom of a bowl). I have used this device to powder many different things. Just get some nice crispy bacon and use a paper towel to get the grease off, then crumble it up and stuff it in there. It will powder it very quickly, like 8 seconds. Again, this is if you really want a powder rather than just bacon bits that you would get from pounding it with a hammer.

1. Render out the bacon fat by cooking the bacon in the oven on a broiler pan. The fat will drain off the slotted top into the bottom
2. Rough chop the bacon with a chef's knife or meat cleaver
3. Place chopped bacon in food processor or blender and process to desired texture.

Cook bacon in oven or frying pan to medium well, drain, pat dry and place in dehydrator afew hours, checking often till desired doneness is reached. Then either powder in grinder or pulverize for bits. Dehydrating will make for a long lasting product

I am mixing up a batch right now. I use store bought bacon bits, and a dehydrator. Dehydrate bits for 3 hours at 155 degrees, then grind in a coffee grinder and back in the dehydrator for another 3 to 6 hours. Then grind again to a powder.