6 Homemade Bacon Recipes

Home curing and smoking bacon opens up a world of seasoning options that takes this staple to delicious new heights.

Pastrami Bacon

With a well spiced cure and strong peppery and earthy rub, this incredible pastrami bacon is big on flavor that makes it stand out in sandwiches, burgers, and more.

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Homemade Pepper Bacon

This homemade bacon has a great smokiness, intense meatiness, mellow sweetness, and sharp peppery crust that makes it way more complex than what you pull off your grocery store shelf.

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Maple-cured Bacon

A maple syrup-based cure gives this bacon a light sweetness that melds with the salty and smoky flavors to create overall excellent tasty and crispy strips.

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A lean pork loin is soaked in a sweet maple cure then smoked, sliced, and pan fried. The end result is a Canadian bacon with a great sweet and salty mixture that is more pronounced and complex than what you get off the shelf.

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Cajun-spiced Bacon

A Cajun seasoning blend gives this bacon an earthy and garlicky heat that stands out against the already hefty smoky, salty, and porcine flavors.

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Spice-cured Bacon

A heavily spiced cure gives this homemade bacon a more robust flavor than your average supermarket strips.

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