Bacon for MacGyver

I'm still trying to sort the implications of this out in my head. So you can apparently take bacon (proscuitto, actually, though I am sure tests are being done as we speak on assorted pork products) and a tube hooked up to an oxygen tank and create what is called a 'thermal lance'. A thermal lance is what is used to cut scrap metal (and traditionally uses iron and magnesuim instead of pork). It also works with a cucumber and slim jims, apparently. This guy is my hero (via Boing Boing):