If you’re making streaky bacon from belly pork, this is the last time you need to drain the pickle from your bacon, and apply the rest of the cure – if you’re making back bacon from loin I’m afraid you have one more day of this to go.

Still, all of you are now tantalisingly close to the marvellous ‘eating the bacon’ stage of the experiment.  Your meat should be looking very much like bacon by now.  Hungry yet?

All the Big Bacon Challenge posts will be collected under the ‘BigBaconChallenge’ category heading – so go there to read them all!

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