Homemade Cured Bacon

Step 1: Calculate the cure & spice weights

Meat

  • Pork belly, skin on
    1 slab

Cure

  • Salt
    2%
  • Celery powder
    .25%
  • Brown Sugar
    1%

Using a food scale, weigh the pork belly.

Use this weight to calculate the remaining ingredient amounts. For example, if you have 1000 g of pork belly, 2% salt = 20 g.

Once you’ve weighed out the salt, celery powder, brown sugar, peppercorns, and garlic cloves, add them to a bowl and mix them all together.