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Old 07-12-2016, 17:55
battenburg15
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Has anyone tried making home cured bacon? I ask partly for myself, and partly as I think a kit for this might make quite a nice Secret Santa gift.

I have two options on this front - one is just to buy the curing ingredients (Lakeland do it, I'm sure among other places) and it would be within my budget. Alternatively, I can spend slightly extra and get a kit. However, all you're really getting with the kit - or at least the one I'm looking at - is a smaller quantity of cure, some bags, gloves, a nice box and a pop-up timer. I don't think the bags and gloves are really needed, so the only thing that might make it worth getting the kit is the pop-up timer.

So two questions really. Is home cured bacon any good? And what is the pop-up timer for? Any information much appreciated - need to order soon if this goes forward for Secret Santa!

And as an aside, I've had a DS account for some years but hadn't logged in for quite a long time. Do accounts get removed after a certain period? I couldn't for the life of me work out what email account I'd used previously, so had to set up this new account instead.
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Old 07-12-2016, 18:37
fizzycat
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We made some from a kit and it was beautiful.

There wasn't a timer in our kit but there was a muslin bag and a hook for hanging it during the process. Now we've got those I'll be replenishing the ingredients from Lakeland or anywhere I can get them. You can get bags and gloves cheap from Poundland. I've just got the intruction leaflet out of the kitchen drawer and I'm not sure why the kit you looked at has a timer - the only time given is '2 days'.

Look on youtube for videos and google for recipes - there may be a way to avoid needing the muslin bag. If you do need one, large stockingette dishcloths would be a substitute.
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