What’s the Best Way to Store Bacon?

Published on Wednesday, July 22, 2009, by CHOW Video Team / Edit Post

What’s the Best Way to Store Bacon?

You can find great bacon in bulk, but you might not be able to eat five pounds of it before it goes bad. Scott Kveton, founder of Bacn.com, recommends freezing your bacon as soon as you get it home. Separate the bacon into portion-sized plastic bags and defrost it as the need arises. One of Scott’s favorite bulk bacons is available at Costco (as well as at Bacn.com); it’s called Fletcher’s Masterpiece Dry Cured Bacon, and at around $12 for four pounds, Scott says he “doesn’t know how they manage to make a profit on it.”

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  • 6-8 pieces is a "breakfast portion". dang.

  • I like to cook up the whole pack when I first open it, and then I just nuke a serving portion for breakfast. Cooked food keeps a lot longer than raw, and I don't have to dirty a pan again until I open the next pack.

  • PS. If you want to try the meal-size freezing plan:
    instead of using a million freezer bags--one for each portion--, try putting a portion in the bag, folding the bag over, insert another portion, fold, more bacon. I've done this with chicken pieces and gallon-size bags and it works well. The only caveat is to make sure the bags are flat and throughly frozen before stacking or otherwise leaving...+READ

    PS. If you want to try the meal-size freezing plan:
    instead of using a million freezer bags--one for each portion--, try putting a portion in the bag, folding the bag over, insert another portion, fold, more bacon. I've done this with chicken pieces and gallon-size bags and it works well. The only caveat is to make sure the bags are flat and throughly frozen before stacking or otherwise leaving for storage. That way the portions stay separate and it's easy to pull out one or as many as you want.

    This is good for me as I go on occasional vegetarian or vegan binges.

    While the topic is not food safety--try the new FDA page: www.foodsafety.gov--, I agree it would have been helpful to show a sample of bacon gone bad. But maybe that would be too painful for someone who founded a site called Bacn.com. ;)-COLLAPSE

  • @KaimukiMan: It depends on the type of bacon. If its uncured store bought shelf bacon then I would recommend following the safe-by date on the packaging. You know its starting to go bad when any added water starts to seep out, it discolors or the smell is less than savory.

    For cured bacon, its another story altogether. This bacon can keep up to 6 months in the fridge and longer if frozen. Again,...+READ

    @KaimukiMan: It depends on the type of bacon. If its uncured store bought shelf bacon then I would recommend following the safe-by date on the packaging. You know its starting to go bad when any added water starts to seep out, it discolors or the smell is less than savory.

    For cured bacon, its another story altogether. This bacon can keep up to 6 months in the fridge and longer if frozen. Again, color and smell are key indicators on it going bad.-COLLAPSE

  • Well, if this is catered to pre-teens, great. But this is half a minute I'll never get back.
    What fluff.

  • I love my seal a meal vacuum packer! You can buy in bulk and vacuum pack just about anything. Some items require freezing before sealing, such as berries and other juicy items.

  • once again, so what?

    how long can you keep it in the fridge? how can you tell if its going bad? more information lacking than given. is it supposed to be some sort of secret that you can freeze meat?