{"id":11499,"date":"2012-06-12T02:11:34","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T09:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=11499"},"modified":"2012-06-12T16:19:26","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T23:19:26","slug":"the-difference-between-bacon-and-salted-pork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/06\/the-difference-between-bacon-and-salted-pork\/","title":{"rendered":"The Difference Between Bacon and Salted Pork"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/bacon-vs-salted-pork.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11500\" title=\"bacon-vs-salted-pork\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/bacon-vs-salted-pork.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/bacon-vs-salted-pork.jpg 559w, https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/bacon-vs-salted-pork-340x365.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The difference between bacon and salted pork or ham is primarily just the composition of the brine that is used to cure it.\u00a0 Brine for bacon often includes sodium nitrite, sodium nitrate, and saltpeter (for curing the meat); sodium ascorbate (for setting the color, as well as speeding up the curing process); and brown or maple sugar (for flavor), among other ingredients.\u00a0 Brine for ham tends to have a significantly higher concentration of sugar.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, the USDA defines &#8220;bacon&#8221; as &#8220;the cured belly of a swine carcass&#8221;\u2026 mmm swine carcass\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Etymology of bacon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/origin-of-the-word-bacon\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reference<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The difference between bacon and salted pork or ham is primarily just the composition of the brine that is used to cure it.\u00a0 Brine for bacon often includes sodium nitrite, sodium nitrate, and saltpeter (for curing the meat); sodium ascorbate (for setting the color, as well as speeding up the curing process); and brown or maple sugar (for flavor), among [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[321,2731,702],"class_list":["post-11499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-bacon","tag-bacon-facts","tag-language-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11499"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11502,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11499\/revisions\/11502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}