Bacon at Home

Name: Bacon at Home
Ingredients: 2 rosemary sprigs, leaves picked; 1 tbsp black peppercorns; 100 g curing salt, from the internet, or sometimes the butcher will sell it to you; 50 g caster sugar; 3 bay leaves; 2½ kg pork belly, deboned, skin on

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Max’s Sandwich Book

By Max Halley and Ben Benton

Published 2018

About

Some prior warning. This will take a long time. You will need to sacrifice some space in your fridge. You will wonder why you are bothering with this. Then you will become addicted to it and your bacon sarnie will never be the same again.

Ingredients

2½ kg pork belly, deboned, skin on
100 g curing salt, from the internet, or sometimes the butcher will sell it to you

Main course
Gluten-free

Method

Before you start, find a resealable polythene bag large enough to fit the pork belly inside. Also, find a roasting tray large enough to fit this bag and belly in. And clear a space in your fridge large enough for the tray.

Blitz the curing salt, sugar, bay leaves, rosemary and black peppercorns in a food processor or spice grinder until it’s a uniform powder. Place this mix in the plast