Or hang it in a wooden shed and cook there. Let it go and smoke it with firewood while cooking. This practice will keep the cured bacon from deteriorating and rotting for a long time. This is the best way to preserve meat. You can eat meat at any time of the year. This method may have a history of hundreds or even thousands of years, and it is the crystallization of human wisdom. Of course, with the continuous development of society, there are also various ways to preserve food, but long-term living habits, making bacon is not simply for preservation, not to mention bacon has long been a rare food, but also an indispensable food for the New Year. When you see bacon, you will always think of the coming New Year, and that kind of homesickness will unconsciously rise in your mind.
In short, making wax products is a tradition. Just as the North emphasizes eating jiaozi on New Year's Eve, many families in the South will have preserved meat on New Year's Eve, which can be single or a combination of several preserved meats.
Secondly, wax products are also local characteristics, and the taste is completely different from that of fresh meat. Just like fresh meat can be made into shredded pork with fish flavor, shredded pork with garlic, shredded pork with Beijing sauce, Sichuan style pork, boiled pork slices, salt fried pork, stir-fried pork, diced pork with kung pao, braised pork, bacon, crispy pork, sweet and sour pork ribs, garlic-flavored pork ribs, braised pork ribs and braised pork elbows, and so on. Drooling first and then admiring the profoundness of Chinese food culture. The same is true of bacon products, such as bacon, sauce meat, wind meat, bacon mouth, sausage, bacon ribs and so on. There are different ways to make a sausage.