Freezing bacon/vacuum seal

[mmab9]

Can anyone tell me if you can freeze bacon and how long will it keep or can you vacuum seal and how long will that keep.

[Rik vonTrense]

If you vacuum pack it properly then it will keep for two weeks or more
and if you vacupak it and then freeze it.....it will keep for two years.


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[Wohoki]

Properly cured bacon in the piece will keep, wraped in greaseproof paper, in the top of the fridge for months and months, probably for a year or more. That is the whole point of curing it.

It will dry out over this time, and become less suitable for frying as rashers, but it is still superb for making lardons and for flavouring soups and cassaroles.

[Rik vonTrense]

It could well be the case with properly dry cured bacon .......how often have I been caught out in the past when bacon I have purchased being in the fridge for a couple of weeks ....has gone rancid and sticky and smelly......and tastes awful.

[Wohoki]

To be fair, my butcher stocks superb GOS Wiltshire cured bacon, bought in by the whole side, and it keeps so well I've found the odd end in the fridge that has dried so well it takes a hacksaw to cut it