I was shopping in Whole Foods today, and much to your surprise, I’m sure, was looking for some bacon. But all of the bacon there was of the uncured variety. So this got me thinking, what the heck is uncured bacon? Well evidently, all bacon, by its very nature is cured. Its what makes bacon, bacon. The difference here is that uncured bacon uses salt instead of cured bacon which uses sodium nitrites. In the late seventies, there was a whole thing about how sodium nitrites were bad for you. So in uncured bacon, they just use celery and lemon juice and salt and some other stuff in order to get the same sort of effect that sodium nitrites got you.
