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Bacon Cured Using Percentages
- Difficulty
Medium
Published 2019
This is the most accurate way of curing bacon and ensures that it’s always consistently seasoned and cured. For this preparation, you will need a scale.
Ingredients
1 - Kosher salt
- Brown sugar
- Pink curing salt
- Garlic cloves
Method
Weigh the pork belly in grams and record its weight. Calculate 2 percent of that weight, and measure that weight in kosher salt. For example, if your belly weighs 2,000 grams (close to 4½ pounds), you’ll weigh out 40 grams salt, which is about 2⅔ tablespoons. Weigh out half the weight of the kosher salt in brown sugar (20 grams, or about 4 teaspoons, in the example above). Weigh out 0.25 percen
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