{"id":332,"date":"2015-11-08T00:07:05","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T00:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brothersbites.com\/?p=332"},"modified":"2015-11-08T00:07:05","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T00:07:05","slug":"the-big-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brothersbites.com\/?p=332","title":{"rendered":"The Big B\/C"},"content":{"rendered":"

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G\u2019day Tony.<\/p>\n

Well, I\u2019m a little stunned. No, I\u2019m mortified.<\/p>\n

How can the UN tag what can only be described in every other way a \u2018superfood\u2019 as cancer causing? Of course, I\u2019m talking about bacon.<\/p>\n

Alright, so they don\u2019t say it actually causes cancer, but the research suggests that it can increase the risk of certain types of cancer. It does make me wonder though. Given our intake of counter-cancer causing foodstuffs like gin and tonic, I wonder whether this still holds true?<\/p>\n

I notice you\u2019ve sourced some locally made bacon? There are many local producers here, unsurprisingly. But just to mix things up a little, I\u2019ve started making my own.<\/p>\n

It actually pretty simple, though I use a nitrite mix, rather than the traditional salt cure. But that makes it easier to get some flavours into the meat. The last batch had some bourbon and maple syrup and of course some hickory smoke from the smoker box.<\/p>\n

The wonderful thing about the web is accessing some really high quality pork belly for purpose. While there is plenty of pork at the local butchers, I\u2019m just not sure of its source. Am now hunting down some old fashion breed with a good mix of meat and fat.<\/p>\n

I wonder if I can source some of that elusive Wagyu pork that one might find in Hong Kong?<\/p>\n

Happy bacon-ing in the interim.<\/p>\n

Daniel<\/p>\n

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G\u2019day Tony. Well, I\u2019m a little stunned. No, I\u2019m mortified. How can the UN tag what can only be described in every other way a \u2018superfood\u2019 as cancer causing? Of course, I\u2019m talking about bacon. Alright, so they don\u2019t say it actually causes cancer, but the research suggests that it can increase the risk of … Continue reading The Big B\/C<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[249,86,250,253,251,252,81],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-cooking","tag-bacon","tag-bbq","tag-bourbon","tag-hong-kong","tag-maple","tag-syrup","tag-wagyu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brothersbites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brothersbites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brothersbites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brothersbites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brothersbites.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brothersbites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brothersbites.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brothersbites.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brothersbites.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}