Back Bacon

Mild Bacon

Back Bacon

Back in 2010, when I posted the bacon tutorial online, I used a recipe with fairly low levels of salt. Many people liked it and it remains popular.

Mild Bacon

The ingredients for 1kg of meat are:

18.5gm Salt
10gm Sugar
2.4gm Cure #1
0.4gm Sodium ascorbate (optional)

Use the cure pro-rata for other weights of meat adding whatever herbs and spices you like. A good starting point is a sprinkle of thyme and black pepper.

For other sizes of meat, it’s easiest to use this calculator:

Mild Bacon Cure Calculator
Weight of Meat in grams gm
Salt gm
Sugar gm
Cure #1 (6.25% nitrite) gm
Sodium Ascorbate/Erythorbate
(optional)
gm
Total Amount gm

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