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And I have pictures to prove it: Dropbox - Bacon Curing[^]
For our American Friends: it's Back bacon, not the type you get over there that's 50% meat, 50% fat - we call that "Streaky" and it's made with Pork Belly, not Loin. Maybe next time...
Only eaten 1/2 a slice (Herself ate the other half) and it was deliberatly a thin slice, a couple of mm thick.
Taste wise: it's BACON all right! Not as salty as I'm used to - but that's a good thing - and pretty much the best I've ever tasted. But hey, "I Made This!" could be influencing that quite a bit.
While it cooked, no "white stuff" came out, the fat rendered beautifully, and the meat cooked quickly and evenly.
I've cut off 6 more thicker slices to include in a Full English at lunchtime as it's Herself's birthday and I think this is going to be a good 'un. If the thickness works, I slice the lot and vacuum pack it for the freezer over the weekend.
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well done
mmmm, real bacon, no nitrites - enjoy, and happy birthday to 'herself'
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It was cured using Sodium Nitrite (not a lot, 6.25% to 93.75% salt in the curing salt, which was only 8% of the meat weight) to avoid botulism since I can't get the meat direct from the pig and have to use supermarket joints. You can make bacon without the nitrites, but you need "clean" meat and a longer cure if you just use "ordinary" salt, apparently.
The nitrites should break down and be removed during the curing process anyway at this concentration. Again, apparently! 
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hmmm, maybe you need to befriend a butcher or even better a pig farmer - unless EU rules prevent them from selling direct from a carcass
enjoy anyway, I'm salivating you rotter
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Selling direct from the carcass isn't the problem - it's the slaughterhouse rules that make it difficult. Unless the animal is slaughtered in a licenced, regulated, inspected, and up-to-the-latest-code official slaughterhouse, you can't sell it at all. And that's difficult because pigs are long animals, and the smaller houses (like our local one) have closed as a result - they would have to build an extension that was taller than the original building to legally continue (even sheep were a bit close for the local one).
And my local butcher passed away about three years ago - and no-one wanted to take over the business, so that's gone as well... 
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OriginalGriff wrote: the slaughterhouse rules
Sounds like a book title to me, "The Slaughterhouse Rules" by P.Griffin.
I will be faarrrkkkking legless before I am carriedcto the car ftombhere. - Michael Martin - Christmas 2015
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It still looks dead.
I'll get my coat
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Most excellent! I am impressed. Glad it turned out well for you. 
You get extra credit for all the pics. 
I will be faarrrkkkking legless before I am carriedcto the car ftombhere. - Michael Martin - Christmas 2015
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We people often make new year resolutions in order to make our professional life better.
Lets create some resolutions to make your personal life and relationship better and stronger.
Some of them includes (IMHO):
1. Take my kids to Amusement park at least 2 times this year.
2. Give 4 surprise gifts to my wife.
3. Meet close friends personally every month.
4. Play with my kids minimum 1 hr every weekday.
If you are already doing it, its great. I realized that I failed to strengthen family/friends relationship last year due to over focusing on professional stuffs. I hope to balance it this time.
Life is a computer program and everyone is the programmer of his own life.
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Anurag Gandhi wrote: 1. Take my kids to Amusement park at least 2 times this year. And leave them there.
2. Give 4 surprise gifts to my wife. A waterbomb, itching powder, the bill for my weekend in Vegas, and a one way ticket to Greenland.
3. Meet close friends personally every month. To score free drinks, dinners, and anything else I can squeeze out of their wallets.
4. Play with my kids minimum 1 hr every weekday. They make great bowling balls!
FTFY
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Anurag Gandhi wrote: Take my kids to Amusement park at least 2 times this year.
How would taking your kids to Amusement park make my personal life better?? Sorry dude, there are some things you shouldn't try to delegate 
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Is 1024 x 768 enough as a new year's resolution?
[Sorry Mr. Griff]
Life is too shor
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The old resolutions are the best, and should be recycled.
In this case, as firelighters...
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Sure, if the year is 1997 or so.
I switched to 4K on my desktop this last year and there's no going back.
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Lang may yer lum reek!
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DaveAuld wrote: Lang may yer lum reek!
Possibly not in Dubai though... 
Happy New Year Dave!
Best wishes to you and your family
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I know I was watching it on the news last night quite something else!
I came offshore on the 30th for 3 weeks, so having a 'dry' one....
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Yeah, the only good news for the hotel staff and management was 1) nobody killed (just 16 hurt in that level of conflagration is impressive), and 2) it happened on New Years Eve, so the new year can only be better...
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back at ya, mate 
Hope you're all doing well in Dubai
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Doha....I'm in Qatar, but you were close
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whoops, sorry - whats a mere [cough] 715km amongst friends
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Happy New Year Dave 
With friendly greetings,
Eric Goedhart
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Personally I'd be content if it would just stop raining! 
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I'm sure there are a lot of people in the UK who feels the same!
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