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Old Fashioned Back Bacon – 500g

Old Fashioned Unsmoked Back Bacon – 500g

Thick-sliced, rind-on back bacon, traditionally dry cured and air dried rather than pumped with added water. The cure is seasoned with black pepper and thyme, giving a savoury, unsmoked bacon suited to breakfasts, sandwiches and everyday cooking.

£10.50

(145 customer reviews)
Approximate Weight: 500g
Shelf life: Min 10 days
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Description

What is back bacon?

Back bacon is cut primarily from the pork loin, giving it the characteristic large eye of lean meat with fat and rind around the edge. It is different from streaky bacon, which comes from the belly and contains a greater proportion of alternating fat and meat.

How is this bacon cured?

Grid Iron’s Old Fashioned Back Bacon is unsmoked and dry cured, then air dried. Unlike pumped or wet-cured bacon, water is not injected into the meat. The result is a firmer rasher that holds its shape well during cooking rather than releasing large amounts of added water into the pan.

Unsmoked, smoked or nitrate-free?

This is the unsmoked version. For a smoky bacon, choose our Old Fashioned Smoked Back Bacon – 500g.

This traditional cure uses curing salts including nitrite and nitrate. If you specifically want bacon made without added nitrate/nitrite curing salts, choose our separate Nitrate-Free Back Bacon – 500g.

For a different Mount Grace back-bacon format, see Mount Grace Dry Cured Back Bacon.

Cooking Old Fashioned Back Bacon

For pan cooking, start over moderate heat and allow the fat to render gradually, turning the rashers as needed rather than pressing them down. Grilling also works well; avoid excessively fierce heat that can tighten the lean loin before the fat has rendered.

Use it for a full English breakfast, bacon sandwiches and rolls, toasties, carbonara or lentil dishes, or wrapped around poultry or pork.

Approximate weight: 500g
Minimum shelf life: 10 days

145 reviews for Old Fashioned Back Bacon – 500g

  1. Stephen Way (verified owner) –

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  4. Peter Fazal (verified owner) –

    Bit expensive

  5. Keith williams (verified owner) –

    First class

  6. James (verified owner) –

    This is proper bacon Nooooooo water

  7. Richard Robinson (verified owner) –

    Real bacon that doesn’t shrink in the pan, lovely thickness, not paper thin

  8. Michael Drawmer (verified owner) –

    Wonderful tasty product all meat good delivery and well packed in cool bag to ensure freshness recommend to anybody

  9. Claire O’Toole (verified owner) –

  10. Fiona Jamieson (verified owner) –

    A lovely breakfast experience

  11. Joo Li Ng (verified owner) –

  12. Mrs Weetman (verified owner) –

    Good old fashioned bacon, no water just tasty meat with no shrinkage

  13. Paula Mallett (verified owner) –

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  15. Dean Griffin (verified owner) –

    Good old fashioned style bacon-dry cured for flavour- no white rubbish in the pan. Very tasty and substantial when cooked.

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Ingredients & curing agents:
Free-range Yorkshire pork (96%), sea salt, sugar, preservatives: sodium nitrite (E250), potassium nitrate (E251); antioxidant: sodium ascorbate (E301).

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