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FRESH, NOT FROZEN
DELIVERY FREE OVER £70
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FROM LOCAL FARMS
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
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.
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.
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.
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
Ingredients & curing agents:
Free-range Yorkshire pork (96%), sea salt, sugar, preservatives: sodium nitrite (E250), potassium nitrate (E251); antioxidant: sodium ascorbate (E301).
John Attridge (verified owner) –
very nice, moist bacon,lovely flavour.
Sharon Faley (verified owner) –
Just like bacon used to be
WENDY (verified owner) –
Robert Brade (verified owner) –
Tasty easy to cook no water in frying pan but grilling is the best way to fuller fat flavor.
peter rollinson (verified owner) –
Margaret Archbold (verified owner) –
We bought this bacon to add to our breakfast box to enable us to share it all with friends. It was excellent.
Lauren SPENCER (verified owner) –
Exactly what it says, wouldn’t buy anything else if cheaper. Fantastic tasting.
Frances Sharp (verified owner) –
Martin Wedgwood (verified owner) –
Maria Thompson (verified owner) –
Bacon cooked great and had an authentic and different taste to just supermarket packed bacon. I have re-ordered some for this weekend’s breakfast.
Ray Chong (verified owner) –
These back bacon are thick not like the thin flimsy supermarket variety injected with water and salt. Really great bacon.
Thomas Elliott (verified owner) –
bacon as it should be
Tony Hearn (verified owner) –
Lisa Cutmore (verified owner) –
Christian McKay (verified owner) –
Very tasty… loved the fat content