Lowrey's Bacon Curls Microwave Pork Rinds (Chicharrones), Original, 1.75 Ounce (Pack of 6)

I don't see any competitor for this product. This is THE BEST, hand down 100% THE BEST, and tastiest, microwave FRESH porkrind product ever!If I could afford, I'd buy cases and cases of this stuff. TRULY amazing! Within 2-3 minutes you have fresh, crispy, tasty pork rinds and not the gnarly over cooked store bought stuff.You pull a bag of this out of the microwave and it continues to pop and sizzle even going into your mouth!The most mouthwatering, FRESH, pork rind product available!

These are delicious although a bit salty. I like the spicy ones better than the regular, but you can flavor the regular ones by pouring out the 'chips' onto a plate and sprinkling them with hot sauce (or whatever) before you microwave them. Crispy, crunchy, tender and great to team up with a beer.Here's what you need to know. Although pork rinds have an aura of unhealthiness, these are substantially better nutritionally than light microwaved popcorn. They are actually lower in fat, higher in protein and amino acids, and lower in carbs. In fact, you can eat the whole package and get ~240 calories, 8g fat and 32g protein with almost zero carb. The amino acid profile is very good..low in the 3 that you really don't want to over consume and high in the ones you do.Pork rinds are also an excellent source of gelatin...the unctuous stuff from bones, connective tissue, skin and so forth that makes your pot roast and fried chicken skin taste good. Turns out its also a great source of protein and aminos. Depending on which study you read it may improve your skin, hair, nails and might help with arthritic conditions. It might even reduce the signs of aging and help with cell regeneration.I've also solved the problem with how long you cook them. Cook them in the popcorn bag for 90 seconds. Dump them out into a bowl. Any small brown ones didn't cook. Put them on a plate and cook for 30 seconds. You'll see them expand into the finished product. I'm not even sure you need the bag at all, I think they're just trying to simulate microwave popcorn. Next time I cook them I'm just going to dump them out into a large bowl and nuke until I see they're all cooked.Edit: that worked fine. I dumped them out onto a plate, spread them out and nuked them. They all expanded and around the time the last one expanded I noted a darkening spot on one of the first ones to 'pop'. I could have stopped it half way through to take out the ones that were done, but being able to watch the process made cooking them simple. No pops, spatter or any sort of mess at all. Unless you wanted to eat them out of the bag in the car, this is the way to go.Great snack, my kid loves them. My dogs too. Very satiating and way better for you than chips or popcorn.

Additional comments: i’ve tried pork rinds numerous times to find them flavorless flat and actually tasting like cardboard. But I want to reiterate that these pork rinds are delicious just by themselves. Since I’m doing keto, I have a cheese dip that I use also and it completely satisfies those late night “SNACKIES”I started with the small box and I’ve just ordered the larger box of 18.Someone stated that there weren’t many in a bag. For me and I do have quite the appetite, the amount in the bag was perfect. Just wanted to share some additional comments.I thought I’d give pork rinds one more try. Reading the positive comments, etc. And I’m really happy I did because these are very good and full of flavor. I’ll definitely be buying more.

Overall I enjoyed this product. It’s a good small snack size which I liked instead of opening a big bag of similar product. I liked the flavor and I actually liked eating it warm. For me it reminds me of eating warm popcorn instead of pre packaged popcorn.The texture for the “popped” ones was the typical texture of pork rinds. However the ones that don’t pop are very hard (to be fair it tells you to continue to heat the package for the unpopped ones until they are popped). I heated a couple packages more then once to get the unpopped ones to pop and some would but not all.