Hickory Smoked, Sugar-Free Bacon

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Sugar-free, hickory smoked bacon recipe that is a crucial product for native farms that supply wholesome, pastured pork to the neighborhood. **Please share this recipe together with your native pastured pork farmer!

hickory smoked, sugar-free bacon on wood cutting board

I’ve been shopping for hickory smoked pastured bacon from Peaceable Pastures, a Tennessee household farm, for a lot of years.

It’s sugar-free too, which may be very arduous to seek out relating to domestically produced, pastured pork.

Sadly, this farm suffered a devastating household loss a number of months in the past.

I acquired my final order on March 1, 2024. Sadly, there are not any plans for additional pickups sooner or later 😢

Provided that sugar-free pastured bacon is so arduous to seek out domestically, I requested Peaceable Pastures if they might be prepared to share Jenny’s recipe in order that I might give it to native pork producers in my state.

They stated sure! Beneath is the Peaceable Pastures superb recipe for hickory smoked, sugar-free bacon.

It’s the BEST bacon you’ve ever tasted.

I’ve already shared this recipe with the pork farmers in my neighborhood. I hope you’ll share it with those in yours too!

We actually want native pork farmers to supply sugar-free bacon because it is just too harmful, in my view, to purchase industrial bacon on the retailer anymore even when natural.

China is shopping for up the industrial pork trade in america (together with farmland), and mRNA injections are already being utilized in pig livestock. (1-3)

To get protected bacon, you merely should purchase it domestically and keep away from any bacon that has handed by means of the Industrialized Meals System.

Is Celery Powder Wholesome?

The recipe beneath incorporates celery powder, which is a pure supply of nitrites.

Different greens that comprise naturally occurring nitrites are spinach, beetroot, lettuces, cabbages, potatoes, and carrots.

Natural celery powder is much safer than sodium nitrate curing salts generally utilized in industrial variations, which contain a prolonged, advanced, and poisonous manufacturing course of that entails ammonia. (4)

By comparability, celery powder is made by dehydrating complete celery at low temperature. That’s it!

Thus, the “nitrates are nitrates” line from Massive Meals which seeks to confuse customers into accepting sodium nitrate as a meals preservative and curing agent as the identical as what’s in greens is a typical half-truth.

It’s strongly harking back to the “MSG is MSG” line trumpeted for many years looking for to conflate artificial MSG added to processed meals with the pure, healthful glutamate in meat, gravy, broth, and inventory.

Whereas some folks can not tolerate even the pure nitrates in greens like celery, most individuals can … even these on gut-healing diets like GAPS.

In the event you can eat celery and different nitrite-rich greens with out points, there’s a good probability you may be wonderful with celery salt as a pure curing seasoning too.

Cooking Sugar-Free Bacon

These recommendations on cooking sugar-free bacon will assist you transition to the marginally completely different methodology wanted in contrast with sugared industrial manufacturers.

Trace: Sugar-free bacon tends to stay to the pan and must be flipped a number of occasions throughout the preliminary cooking course of as it’s heating up.

Sugar-free, hickory smoked bacon recipe that is a crucial product for native farms that supply wholesome, pastured pork to the neighborhood.

Directions

Mix the celery powder and sea salt collectively to make a dry rub for the fat-rich reduce you’ll use to make the bacon (pork stomach is frequent).
Generously apply the rub everywhere in the floor of the meat, ensuring to coat it evenly.
After generously making use of the rub, place in a vacuum sealed or ziplock bag (with as a lot of the air eliminated as doable) and refrigerate for 10-14 days to naturally remedy it. Flip the bag every day to maneuver the juices by means of. You’ll know that the meat is cured when the outside is dry and you’ll poke it and it has some resistance.
Take away the pork from the fridge and hickory smoke at 200 °F/ 93 °C for 3 hours or till the interior temperature reaches 160 °F/ 71 °C.
Take away the pork from the smoker promptly and let it relaxation for half-hour or as much as 2 hours on the counter.
Slice the bacon to the specified thickness and cook dinner some up straight away! Refrigerate what you’ll use inside every week.
Freeze the remaining slices in one-pound packages till prepared to make use of.