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[DaveB]

30g of salt per kilo of bacon, I also add about 10g of sugar and some pepper as well.

Rub the cure all over and place in a plastic bag for 5 days, ensure to keep turning the bacon every day. After 5 days, wash the cure off and leave to "air dry" for 2 days in the fridge, I usually put it in a baking tray with no covering.

If you have a vac pac system the curing process only takes 2 days.

Enjoy!

No Saltpetre? All the stuff I've read online says use it, although it appears to be a bugger to get hold of.

[NickFitz]

Which episode?

I've only just started: last night was S01E05.

So far, I've managed to resist the temptation to find all the locations on Google StreetView while I'm watching, as happened with The Wire and (to a lesser extent) The Sopranos

[NickFitz]

The wind turbine in the next field is facing a slightly different direction today.

[hyperD]

No Saltpetre? All the stuff I've read online says use it, although it appears to be a bugger to get hold of.

Potassium Nitrate (saltpetre) is used as a food preservative, mainly to avoid botulism, particularly in the curing process. It's not needed as long as you are careful with your pork by draining it each day and leaving it in the fridge.

I use some aromatics with my cure - rosemary, thyme, dark muscavado sugar and star anise.

You'll never go back to real bacon!

[hyperD]

The wind turbine in the next field is facing a slightly different direction today.

I think it's its call to prayer: it's facing the IPCC.

[NickFitz]

I think it's its call to prayer: it's facing the IPCC.

Quite possibly.

There aren't any cattle in the field the other way at the moment; there were last time I was here. Do they stay in during the winter or something?

They were beef cattle, not dairy.

[zeitghost]

I've only just started: last night was S01E05.

So far, I've managed to resist the temptation to find all the locations on Google StreetView while I'm watching, as happened with The Wire and (to a lesser extent) The Sopranos

Ah.

"Grey Matter".



A lot of those locations are in the desert, but carefully framed so you can't see the houses right behind the camera.

[zeitghost]

Quite possibly.

There aren't any cattle in the field the other way at the moment; there were last time I was here. Do they stay in during the winter or something?They were beef cattle, not dairy.

Cowhouses, dude

[NickFitz]

Here's the bit of tarmac the orange sofa sits on in the first season of The Wire: https://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=39.299...00644&t=h&z=21

[eek]

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