what is the difference between side pork and bacon?
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The main difference between the two is side pork has more meat than fat and belly has more fat than meat. ... Bacon is a cured product and can be made from belly (this is what is generically called bacon), loin (Canadian bacon), shoulder (buckboard bacon), and maybe some other cuts I never heard about.
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Jowl is similar in composition to bacon—it has tender meat layered between white strips of fat that cook up nice and crispy on a skillet. But jowl is not as uniform as bacon. It has larger and fewer layers of fat and meat, unlike pork belly, which has thinner more numerous individual layers.
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Bacon is salt-cured meat cut from pig belly. It's unsafe to eat this popular breakfast item raw due to an increased risk of food poisoning. Instead, you should cook bacon thoroughly — but be careful not to overcook it, as doing so can increase the formation of carcinogens.
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So pancetta is cured and unsmoked, while bacon is cured and smoked, but both need to be cooked before being eaten. They can be used interchangeably in dishes, depending on whether or not you want a smoky flavor.
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Turkey bacon is a meat prepared from chopped, formed, cured, and smoked turkey, which is commonly marketed as a low-fat alternative to pork bacon. Turkey bacon may also be used as a substitute for bacon where religious restrictions forbid the consumption of pork.
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The only real difference that you're likely to see (other than flavor) is if you are substituting ground pork for beef of a lower fat content. ... Ground beef is common in that range too, but a lot of people choose lower fat ground beef as it is labeled for fat content.
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Cut. One difference between ham and cured pork shoulder is where on the animal -- also known as the "cut" -- the meat comes from. True hams come from a pig's hind leg, whereas pork shoulders, as you might expect, are from high on the pig's front leg near the shoulder blade.
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Cuts of pork carry a variety of names intended to describe which part of the animal the meat comes from as well as the type of cut and the size of the meat. Pork loin describes a cut of meat, while pork roast is all about the size.
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American bacon comes from pork belly, which is a much fattier cut of meat. British bacon, on the other hand, comes from the loin which is a much leaner cut. In fact, British bacon is from the same cut as pork tenderloin. This is also where bacon gets its name; it is cut from the back of the animal (think "back-on").
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Pork Belly Ribs and Bacon Guide. The belly part of the pig is connected to the loin meat. It contains the spareribs and the pork belly, a fatty slab of meat that is sometimes cooked. Fresh pork belly is currently quite popular in restaurants), but more often is smoked for bacon or cured for pancetta.
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Ham is from the pig's hind leg while pork is any meat from pigs. Ham has a unique salty, sweet or smoky flavor, depending on the preservation process; pork does not have this unique flavor. Ham is ready-to-eat because it was processed already while pork can be in raw form and require cooking before being consumed.
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Actually - American bacon is pork belly. Australian bacon is typically middle bacon, an entirely different (and less fatty) cut of pork. What Australians and British folk call bacon, Americans would often call Canadian bacon. (Though Canadian bacon is actually back bacon.)
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The Pork T-Bone is cut just like a T-Bone Steak - with a pork strip loin on one side and a tenderloin on the other. The strip is meaty, dense, and packed with flavor; while the tenderloin is super tender and oh-so juicy.
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A bacon joint is a piece of cured pork, made with any cut of meat, unlike gammon. Correctly, gammon is the hind leg cut from a side of bacon after curing and traditionally the cure should be the mildest, but we are getting into the habit of calling any bacon joint suitable for boiling and baking a piece of gammon.
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Canadian Bacon: Pork Loin. Canadian bacon is more like ham than the streaky cured and smoked strips of bacon that most of us are used to. American bacon comes from the fatty belly of the pig while Canadian bacon is typically cut from the loin. ... If Canadian bacon is cured at all, it's usually done in a basic brine.
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Ham is a processed pig meat product, whereas pork is a raw pig meat which need further processing before consumption. Pork is any meat from the pig (fresh or cured). Ham is the rear leg of the pig which has been processed with salt and other spices.
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Choose Canadian bacon sometimes. It's much leaner than the regular kind. “Canadian bacon is still processed, but it's not one big chunk of fat with a little bit of meat,” Angelone says.