Bacon is a special product of our Enshi Mountain Township. The dishes made with it are really fragrant. They look rosy and tender, and they taste even more fragrant. No wonder there are bacon specialty stores and bacon restaurants in major cities across the country.

In fact, bacon has a long history, and the tuition fees collected by Confucius were just "shuxiu". The production of bacon is also the scientific creation and invention of our ancestors. In order to store excess meat for a long time without being eaten by insects and rot, people use smoke and fire to remove moisture; carbon dioxide adheres to the surface to form an efficient protective layer, which has the effect of sterilization and insecticide. Moreover, smoked meat has a much stronger color and aroma than cured meat. The most important thing is that the carbon contained in smoked bacon has wonderful medicinal value. It can inhibit and kill E. coli. The bacon can also nourish the stomach, warm and strengthen the body. Eat it in all seasons and you will never suffer from gastrointestinal bloating and diarrhea. It is also a green bodybuilding food. The residual effects of pesticides, chemical fertilizers, and hormones in smoked and stored meat have disappeared. Almost no one has gained weight by eating bacon.

Of course, the smoking of our Enshi bacon is very particular.

First, choose your time carefully. The best time is between the winter solstice and the beginning of spring. At this time, the weather is cold, and the natural cold storage has fewer bacteria and insects, so it is not easy to go rancid.

Second, the production process is exquisite. First, the selected high-quality meat is seared, fried, burned, and seared with a hot iron to brown the pig skin, remove the unfinished roots, and disinfect the incision for the first time. Then apply refined salt, pile the meat and marinate it. After five to seven days, you can go to the kang.

Third, smoking is the most exquisite. Firewood that cannot be used: 1. Coal cannot be used, as the soot makes the meat sour and bad, with a strange taste. 2. Do not use masson pine (fir tree) including pine needles. Pine smoke oil makes the bacon difficult to wash and the meat tastes astringent; 3. Do not use tung tree or catalpa tree. The tung tree tastes spicy and the catalpa tree tastes spicy. Remove oil. 4. Avoid plastic and other toxic and smelly firewood. The best ones are: cedar branches and leaves, citrus orange and grapefruit peels, Sichuan peppercorns, pepper warp stems, sweet potato vines

etc. The fire should not be too intense and uninterrupted. In this way, the color, aroma and taste are of the highest quality, achieving the effects of warming and toning.

Fourth, storage. Smoked bacon should be hung in a cool and ventilated place and should not be exposed to the sun. For storage, it can be laminated with chaff to prevent meat insects.

Part 2

My hometown is Hubei. The best thing there is bacon. Maybe you would say that bacon can be eaten anywhere. However, if you go to my hometown to eat, you will stay there and refuse to leave!

Bacon is made by drying it in the twelfth lunar month. It has strong antiseptic ability and can extend the storage time. It will not go bad after being stored for several months, and it still tastes the same when eaten. However, don’t eat too much bacon at one time, otherwise it will cause many diseases!

Bacon is a kind of Chinese cured meat. It is a specialty of Hubei, Sichuan, Hunan, Jiangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, Gansu, Shaanxi and Longxi. It has a history of thousands of years!

It tastes very good, and the more I eat it, the more I want to eat it. If it's not smoked or sunbaked, it won't taste very good! Therefore, if you are too impatient to eat bacon, you need to be patient!

Bacon will give people a feeling that they will never tire of eating it. Once, I saw that the tables in a restaurant were almost entirely filled with bacon, including fried, boiled, braised and so on. Even the second floor of that restaurant was packed!

I couldn’t get used to this taste before. However, seeing my parents eating with gusto, my saliva couldn't help but drop. In the end, I couldn't resist the temptation of bacon, so I pounced on it and ate it in big bites. As you eat, you get used to it.

This is the bacon from my hometown. Are you already greedy? Action is worse than excitement! Come and taste it now!