Fifty Shades of Bacon

The book was a gag gift for my co-worker whom is obsessed with bacon. She loved it and the chapter titles were humerous. good gag gift, with some really good looking recipes! Shipping was quick and came in perfect condition.

Fifty Shades of Bacon is a good book for a gift. It's not a large book, like some have said. It has some good recipes for true Bacon Lovers, and is catchy and humorous.

I, personally, never pay that much for a book for myself. But it's not bad for a Christmas or Birthday gift. I got it for my brother for Christmas as he has a major love affair with bacon, and if you have a good price range per person's gift of $15-$30, like I do, it's not a bad idea.

I bought this for my stepmother for Christmas, thinking she'd get a good laugh out of it as well as some great recipes.

I could not have been more disappointed. For $20, I got what amounted to a kid's book sized cookbook, and the recipes themselves were lacking a lot of detail as to what went into the preparation of the particular dishes.

I mean, really? You need an entire page to tell me that to make Bacon Peanut Butter you blend cooked bacon and peanut butter together? Seriously? I think I could have figured that one out on my own, Sherlock. Thanks but no thanks.

It's the first time I've returned anything to the store in the past five years. I sent it back and got her the Game of Thrones cookbook instead.

a very cute cookbook with many yummy recipes full of bacon, bacon, bacon! It was an ebook download, so I got it right away, cost me only .99 at the time, so I was pleased. Haven't tried any of the recipes yet because bacon is expensive here but plan to soon. And can hardly wait! The writing is so droll and funny too...

So much more entertaining and tasty! Nothing GREY about this little book and the tongue-in-cheek.......or should that be cheek-by-jowl?....recipes. Though a few of the recipes are already classics, the rest should all be given a chance to perform. One never knows what enticements the right one could unfold.

Hmmm...I pirchased this for my son-in-law because he loves to cook & loves bacon. I guess I should hve realized that since it's a play on MSOG that it might be a little sensual...but I was surprized. Obviously, it wasn't an appropriate gift, sooo I just gave it to my daughter to do with as she chose. The recipes looked tasty & it was fun & kitchy.

Someone gave us Fifty Shades of Chicken as a gift, and it was hilarious. Lots of stories and commentary on the inside and lots of great pictures. Plus it was a hardback book with quite a number of pages. I expected the same with this book. So I was really disappointed to get it. It is very flimsy, thinner than most magazines. There's one page that has "dialogue" from the bacon and that's it. And then some of the recipes are just silly and basic. It felt like a cheap rip-off of the chicken book.

I bought this book for what it is - a novelty. Throw a gift certificate under the cover to a gourmet butcher shop, and - viola - perfect gift, right?

Well, sort of. Except, you just paid 20 bucks (plus shipping?) for a soft-cover, 60 page punchline. Recipes and innuendos make a somewhat useful and enjoyable read, sure. But pricing the book where it belongs ($8-12), or adding more content and quality would make it a much better value, and let me rate the book much higher.

The end result is akin to going out to a Tapas restaurant, ordering truffle soup and and getting a three figure bill from a rude waiter:

Kinda leaves you hungry, wondering if you missed something. Like the Money Shot.

I bought this book for my son, who happens to LOVE bacon. Luckily, I took a quick look inside for recipes I might want to copy, when I realized this is not the kind of book a mother would give her son. My fault for not taking a look online before purchasing!!!

If you are looking for a novelty "bacon cookbook", 50 Shades of Bacon may be for you, but for the price, it's not all that it's cracked up to be. With recipes like "Bacon Bits" (cook your bacon and chop/food processor in to small pieces? Really??) it's hard to justify the price. I've seen other reviews commenting on the (lack of) size of the book, and I would agree that it was disappointing (given the price) to see "a pamphlet" instead of a book. Yes, it's a book, but VERY small...

Thin book with lame text - nothing to do with Fifty Shades. Obviously an attempt of some boring midwestern duo trying to jump on the Fifty Shades wagon. I really should have returned it - I just threw it out instead.

The fifty shades of chicken book was entertaining and good recipes. This cookbook is only so/so recipes and a very disturbing 3/4 page intro talking about domination. I am not judging and I love the 50 shades books but this intro is just...well weird. The recipes are the same you can find in any other cookbook or just come up on the spur of the moment. Nothing earth shattering. I strongly discourage this one.

Not only is this a wonderful cookbook about my love bacon, it was also a hilarious read. I recommend this to all foodies out there. I can't wait to try all the recipes. The husband is sold on bacon ice cream.

I received my book in the mail today and was delighted to see that the recipes are simple to create and leave you anticipated to try each and every one of them. I'll have no problem finding the ingredients at the grocery store. This would be a great recipe book for anyone!

I bought what I thought was a book as a wedding gift for a coworker and was extremely embarrassed when this little pamphlet arrived. The price, description, and photo led me to believe this was a book. This product is worth $5.00 or less, not $25.00. The only real Fifty Shades connection is a table of contents that lists appetizers as foreplay. I was very disappointed, to say the least.

The intro is funny, and I loved the chapter names. 50 recipes with bacon is quite a lot, and it included some things that I didn’t even know existed. Lost one star for no ending, though. I’d like to know what happened after Mr Q finished the recipes.

WAIT...BEFORE YOU BUY. I didn't read carefully and thought this book would have the same erotically humorous flair as "Fifty Shades of Chicken" (which is marvelous, by the way. go buy it). It does not. Beyond the cover you see here it is simply a plain cookbook full of bacon recipes.

Contains easy, doable bacon recipes I would eat. It is short, not drawn out with explanations and overbearing instructions, but it's not much of a parody. The only thing even remotely related to "50 Shades" is the sex-referencing chapter titling.

Tired, old recipes that you can easily find in your Grandma's dusty Betty Crocker cookbooks. Does anyone really need instructions on how to make bacon bits? If so, here - cook your bacon, cool, and crumble it up. There, I've saved you $12.00. You're welcome. Seriously, don't buy this...get the 50 shades of chicken cookbook instead. Well, I did like the cover art - so one star for that.

If you have cholesterol isues, run run run away from this book. My cholesterol numbers jumped 40 pts just reading the first section. Selected recipies include "Meat Candy", "Bacon Alfredo", "Bacon Chocolate Milkshake", "Bacon Jam", and "Bacon Butter". (At this point please imagine Homer Simpson doing a 'mmmmmm bacon' and drooling a bit). I expect I will be buying a few more copies for my friends and family, heck maybe even a couple of enemies might get a copy. Hopefully more volumes will be availalbe soon, is a movie out of the question?

This book gave me a lot of new ideas of how to cook bacon. I was rather "stuck" on just bacon and egg, I love this book, it's easy, taste great and most of all it made cooking a fun :) Hope they will write a new book too, about bacon and Europe !

Do not buy this- I would award zero stars if possible! Low budget book with basic recipes and nothing to do with Fifty Shades Of Grey at all. No raunchy play on words like other recipe books of similar titles. The pictures and wording of these recipes is very basic and the entire book looks as though it was made from the authors home study. Waste of time and money, sorry!

This was ok as a download the recipes are ones I could use from time to time but like the others I would have been upset had I paid what some of the others had. I recommend the "Fifty Shades of Chicken".

Wonderful cookbook with cute 50 shade titles.. Great gift. I wasn't expecting the titles to be so graphic so be careful who you give this too. Luckily it was prefect for my brother and we got a good laugh at Christmas.

Update: I have a higher level of confidence that the results are real after the responded to my post. Still pricey IMHO, but a nice touch on his part.

In all fairness, I have not purchased the book. But consider me a skeptic when a book costs 25.00 bucks for a 62 page paperback (which likely has 10 pages of fluff) and has six (6) perfect reviews.

This bacon smells a little fishy, but I hope I'm wrong. I will keep an eye on it for additional reviews in the future. But even if the recipes are good, that is a too much for a book this small.

Loved this book - such a great parody of the the 'other' 50 Shades book.
Very funny just reading the recipe names, let alone the method!
In saying that, the recipes actually look quite tasty and I'm interested in trying some now - I won't be able to keep a straight face though!

Yes, I'm a proud owner of this little recipe book. Am I going to prepare and eat all of the offerings? No way.

But the bacon deviled eggs and the bacon cheddar scones are worth the price of the book. Definite keepers. I think you'll find something too.

Needs a Kindle version too. Maybe the second edition?

Any book that promotes the hell on earth for any animal is egregious. The suffering bestowed on pigs is ugly, with pain and suffering such as being boiled alive, abused with their teeth cut, tails docked and casteration all without any relief for pain. They are forced to live in crates, become diseased and die slow lingering deaths. The ones that survive suffer unimaginable pain, fear; enslavement for your love of flesh, the taste.

Shame on you. You wouldn't do this to your own baby would you. People taste like bacon. Ever hear of the term 'long pig'? People eaten for their flesh, the taste of pig.

Absolutely disgusting. If you are going to write a book about meat then do include all of the facts. How they are raised (normally in crates unable to move), what happens to the babies that are weak (smashed into the floor) and then how they are killed This needs to be graphic, no animal wants to die for the sake of your taste buds.

Now even if I didn't care about animals everyone knows how bad bacon is for your health anyway so why on earth you are promoting it is beyond me.