How To Make Bacon

Almost everybody has the same reaction: This is good. You made this?

And yeah, it might be vaguely insulting that they’re so surprised that I (of all people) could have made this bacon at home, but I choose to look on the bright side: it was better than expected! It’s always better than expected!

Making bacon at home really isn’t hard. Good meat, a good cure, a couple of weeks of waiting and a relaxing Saturday next to a smoker, to produce something that is in every way better than what you can get in the store. The hardest part of curing meat is figuring out how to season your bacon, and you’re already here at Denver Dry Cure & Seasoning, so you’ve got that part handled!

But let’s take the mystery out of this once and for all. Here’s how to make bacon, in snappily-edited, 4K glory.

The cure shown here is my Garlic Cure, and it’s great.