This article is about the cured meat. For other uses, see Bacon (disambiguation).

Bacon and egg on toast, garnished with a strawberry

Bacon is a cured meat prepared from a pig. It is first cured using large quantities of salt, either in a brine or in a dry packing; the result is fresh bacon (also green bacon). Fresh bacon may then be further dried for weeks or months (usually in cold air), boiled, or smoked. Fresh and dried bacon must be cooked before eating. Boiled bacon is ready to eat, as is some smoked bacon, but either may be cooked further before eating.

Quotes

• Bacon is something that everybody is familiar with and most people grew up eating. It has a comfort aspect to it and a familiarity. It's also got an addictive aspect to it – that sweet and salty combination of flavors. And it's probably just a little bit unhealthy for you. When you get to have bacon, it's exciting and something you look forward to.
  • Heather Lauer, Bacon: A Love Story — cited in Abraham, Lisa (August 12, 2009). "Bacon comes home – Old favorite tastes even better when you do the curing yourself". Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, Ohio): p. D1. 

• Ethically, she couldn't cause the suffering of any living thing. Logically, bacon cheeseburgers were delicious.
  • Thomm Quackenbush, We Shadows

Cooked rasher of streaky bacon

• They fried the fish with bacon and were astonished, for no fish had ever seemed so delicious before.
  • Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer — cited in Pruess, Joanna (2006). Seduced by Bacon. The Lyons Press. p. 93. ISBN 1592288510. 

• For us the pig's the means, while bacon is the end
  Providing gustatory heights to which we can ascend.
  • Joanna Pruess, Seduced by Bacon — Casey, Laura (March 31, 2009). "Piggin' out on bacon at S.F.'s BaconCamp". San Jose Mercury News. Retrieved on 2010-10-19. 

• One bacon does not compare to another.
  • Konrad Stragier in "Bacon matters, a conversation on cured vs raw meats" (2016)

• Nor wander from your selves with Tom
  Abroad to beg your bacon,
  • Anonymous, "Tom o’ Bedlam"

• And yet in bacon hadde I never delyt;
  • Chaucer, "The Prologe of the Wyves Tale of Bathe"

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