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Once you make your own bacon from scratch you will never buy grocery store bacon again. Our heritage pork belly farmer is no longer a viable source so we had to purchase this pork belly meat from a local market. No matter. It will still be craft level cured meat. This is how you do it:

12lb pork belly

1/2 c. Salt, Kosher

4 t. Salt, pink, curing

Method

* Combine Kosher salt and sodium nitrite mixing well

* Sprinkle ingredients thoroughly over both sides of belly

* Put belly in fridge in large pan

* Every 24 hours flip belly over

* Do this for 10 days