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Find a decent local butcher.
I was very impressed with the bacon I bought from my local butcher - Ken Davey in Bookham. Completely different from even the best I'd bought from a supermarket. I don't like to ask if it contains anything it shouldn't as when I asked if there was a choice of turkeys to order, and that I wanted the best they sell, I was told that they only sell one sort and that they pluck them on the premises then hang in a purpose built turkey cold room for 2 weeks - was then asked 'Is that good enough for you?'.
there eating pig now!!
These guys in Turkey seem a bit more relaxed about it.
http://www.donaldrussell.com/c/ShopByCategory_Pork_Bacon.htm
Could do worse. I've had a few bits and pieces from this lot. Unfailingly delicious.
[i]I really wonder how some people get through life - with challenges like being a sex addict and being unable to to find bacon.[/i]
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[i]Make your own as Conor says.[/i]
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I've tried Taylors in Sale moor- I wasnt impressed.
Really, making bacon is child's play. You just make up a dry cure, cure the joint for a few days, smoke if you want. Keep in the fridge for a month.
I've only done streaky/pancetta so far. Going to do a couple whole back/belly next. I have a farm shop near me that rear and butcher saddle back and glouster old spot pigs.
I get bacon from Fenwicks in Newcastle, who's butchers counter sells meat from these people:
http://www.northumbrian-organic-meat.co.uk/index.asp
Sliced to order, dry cured, organic, blah, blah, blah. Doesn't taste like the general 'bacon related product' you generally get in plastic in supermarkets.
They mail order.
Hora. Go the Irish butchers on Wilbram Road in Chorlton. The one next to the fishmongers. I do every Saturday morning and stock up on 'Proper' bacon. They're sausages are bloody gorgeous too
binners, what shops etc is it near? Anyone else get the impression that ton is a nice and very helpful guy on the STW forum? (abit like Jedi) 🙂
Woodall's of Waberthwaite do "real" bacon. They also cure some wonderful hams and make very tasty sausage.