Heather Ramsdell was Senior Editorial Director for The Spruce Eats where she led the editorial team to create recipes that tell stories and help people cook and learn about food.
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How do you make the best homemade bacon?
From breakfast to dinner and even dessert bacon is an absolute favorite. With our recipe you can make your own bacon at home. By making your own tasty bacon you can decide what goes into it: meat from organic pasture-raised animals if you like.
Although the process is lengthy curing and cooking your own bacon produces more flavorful and even tastier bacon than store-bought bacon. So few people cure their own bacon or salt pork at home that some butchers don’t have fresh pork belly. Order yours ahead of time from a local farm or butcher.
While most commercial bacon in the United States is smoked bacon and many of its meat cousins in other countries are smoked they are not. Smoking bacon is more about adding flavor than preserving the meat. Smoked or unsmoked? It’s up to you. Our recipe gives you the choice of using a smoker or cooking the bacon in the oven. For the smoker version we recommend using hickory or applewood shavings for the best flavor.
