Scott Gold, a 39-year-old food writer specializing in meat, beat out around 1,000 applicants for the title of bacon critic for Extra Crispy, Time Inc.’s new website about breakfast, brunch and the foods involved. “This job is tailor-made for me,” he said with gusto. When it comes to bacon, he likes a medium-thick slice and a balance of smoke, fat and salt with an “intensely porcine” quality. He can’t resist the bacon at Peter Luger Steak House in Brooklyn. “Bacon is rarely terrible,” he said. “Who sends back bacon?” At the same time, he acknowledges that spectacular bacon is hard to find. But now he is on the case, given three months to travel around the globe, reporting weekly on his discoveries. In November, at the end of his assignment, he’ll crown one bacon as the best: extracrispy.com.