Bacon bought from the stores can have some nasty cancer causing preservatives in them as with hams.
So to avoid those nasties, you can easily make your own, better tasting healthier bacon yourself.
Get your butcher to cut you a 2.5 kilo (5lbs) of pork belly slab with skin on.
Rub in a third of a cup of salt (rubbing salt or kosher) into the meat side with the skin side down.
Put the pork belly into a glass baking dish with a bamboo mat suspending it off the bottom of the dish.
The bacon slab will release it's water as it cures in the fridge, so it needs to be suspended above the moisture.
You can flavor the bacon with herbs, treacle, maple syrup, the flavors will absorb into the meat as it cures.
Cover the meat and put in the fridge, check each day, rub a little more salt, and drain of water from the bottom of the dish.
After four days rinse off excess salt, slow cook the meat at 100C or 200 F for 2.5 hours. If you have a smoker, smoke it with some hickory.
Smoked meat can be unhealthy too, so the alternative is just oven cooking with smoke flavoring.
This home made bacon tastes better than that slimy store bought bacon, and it's healthier.
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