Bacon at home

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make homemade bacon? Prepare the products according to the list. Part of the pork carcass for bacon should be of perfect quality - only in this case you will get a truly delicious bacon.

2. Step 2:

   

   Take a piece of brisket suitable for cooking bacon, cut off part of the fat with layers from it - this is the bacon we will cook today.

3. Step 3:

   

   Cut the pork into the parts that are suitable for you for salting. I have these square pieces. You can make them narrow and oblong, so that after you can cut into "standard" thin slices of bacon.

4. Step 4:

   

   How to salt bacon at home? Prepare the salt mixture. To do this, take a suitable deep and wide dish. Add coarse salt to it. Cut the peeled garlic into petals or pass it through a press. Add garlic to salt, add spices. Mix everything well.

6. Step 5:

   

   Now roll the sliced pieces of pork in the prepared salt mixture from all sides. Put the oppression on top of the meat and put it in a cool place for three days for salting.

7. Step 6:

   

   During these three days, turn the fat under the yoke a couple of times so that the resulting brine evenly penetrates the bacon.

8. Step 7:

   

   After three days, the bacon is ready at home. Wash off excess salt from it, pack it in a plastic bag and store it in the freezer, cutting off as needed with plates or cutting into small pieces.