Instructables user PenfoldPlant made this Möbius bacon strip by twisting a rasher of bacon around a rolling pin and then gluing it with transglutaminase, an enzyme that acts as a protein bonding agent.
For generations, crazed dreamers and bold pioneers have searched for a method to turn ordinary bacon into a perfect loop of uninterrupted beauty. A loop with a single, seamless, salty surface. Never ending or beginning. Ever continuing, ever bacon.
For just as long, mathematicians and butchers alike have sworn it couldn’t be done.
“No,” they said.
“We won’t give you a research grant,” they said.
“There’s no such thing as a Department for Experimental Topo-charcuterie,” they said.
Today, with the unveiling of the astonishing Möbius, I intend to prove them all wrong.
Read on to find out how to make your very own delicious edible bacon Möbius strips at home!