{"id":2286,"date":"2009-10-18T18:47:48","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T00:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nachzen.net\/?p=2286"},"modified":"2009-10-19T09:53:13","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T15:53:13","slug":"bringing-home-the-bacon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/?p=2286","title":{"rendered":"Bringing Home the Bacon"},"content":{"rendered":"

So Berck came across this article on the Internet about how to make your own bacon.\u00c2\u00a0 The first step is procuring some pork belly.\u00c2\u00a0 He asked at Whole Foods, and they suggested he try Andy’s Meat Market<\/a>.<\/p>\n

$22.13 later, we had ourselves some pork belly.\u00c2\u00a0 Here’s Berck wiping it off with paper towels.<\/p>\n

\"Wiping<\/p>\n

Here he is adding a mixture of salt, sugar, and pink salt (sodium nitrite).<\/p>\n

\"adding<\/p>\n

Then it goes in a plastic 2 gallon “Ziploc.”\u00c2\u00a0 Berck had to make a special trip to King Soopers to get some.<\/p>\n

\"Ziplock\"<\/p>\n

Next he mixed up the spices.<\/p>\n

\"Peppering\"<\/p>\n

Chopped some garlic…<\/p>\n

\"Garlic\"<\/p>\n

Added some brown sugar, a crumbled bay leaf, some thyme, and red pepper and then smeared it all on.<\/p>\n

\"Spicing\"<\/p>\n

Now it sits in the fridge for a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So Berck came across this article on the Internet about how to make your own bacon.\u00c2\u00a0 The first step is procuring some pork belly.\u00c2\u00a0 He asked at Whole Foods, and they suggested he try Andy’s Meat Market. $22.13 later, we had ourselves some pork belly.\u00c2\u00a0 Here’s Berck wiping it off with paper towels. Here he…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonclassified-nonsense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2286"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2298,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286\/revisions\/2298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}