Go to Trader Joe's, do not pass go & do not collect $200

Mickey

This is the best thing I has eaten in a very long time. You have got to try it. 

Sea2Ski

How do you have uncured bacon? Isn't all true bacon, cured?  

Acn

I'll be honest, I've tried this and wasn't impressed.  The Trader Joe's bacon jam though, that's fantastic.

bhedges1987

I'll give it a go next time I am there. 

blind99

If you like jerky, definitely worth a try. I love that Trader Joe's makes all sorts of interesting flavored stuff. 

DuckDogDr

Girl at work gave me some. I liked it. 
She had brought it home as a souvenir for her boyfriend and he didn't like it 

Coul

just got one in our area. what do yall recommend that I look at when we go?

SGH

Sea2Ski said:

How do you have uncured bacon? Isn't all true bacon, cured?  

I will take a shot at this brother Ski. The nomenclature used is an oxymoron. It is used intentionally to catch buyers attention. The meat used is cut from the belly, however it is brined and jerked instead of cured. So there is an element of truth in their statement no matter how misleading it actually is to the average Joe. With that said, it's just not cured bacon, but it is indeed bacon as you will see in the following paragraph.  
As to your second question, no, all bacon is not cured. However to be classed as "bacon", it must at a minimum be brined. Be it a wet brine or a dry brine. What they are offering is brined bacon made into jerky. Hope this helps my friend. 

SmokeyPitt

SGH said:

Sea2Ski said:

How do you have uncured bacon? Isn't all true bacon, cured?  

I will take a shot at this brother Ski. The nomenclature used is an oxymoron. It is used intentionally to catch buyers attention. The meat used is cut from the belly, however it is brined and jerked instead of cured. So there is an element of truth in their statement no matter how misleading it actually is to the average Joe. With that said, it's just not cured bacon, but it is indeed bacon as you will see in the following paragraph.  
As to your second question, no, all bacon is not cured. However to be classed as "bacon", it must at a minimum be brined. Be it a wet brine or a dry brine. What they are offering is brined bacon made into jerky. Hope this helps my friend. 

Just to add to that, I have also read it is really more if a marketing ploy. They use celery powder or something similar that has nitrites/nitrates...so it really is cured. 

All that aside, I am passing right by TJs today and will be picking up some naturally cured bacon jerky. 

Gunnar

@coul.....a seasonal item to try are the spiced pumpkin seeds....

WeberWho

Coul said:

just got one in our area. what do yall recommend that I look at when we go?

Thier pizza dough is good when in a pinch. Each dough ball will make two nice thin crusts or one bigger pizza. I'm also dig their Goddess mustard salad dressing 

cssmd27

SmokeyPitt said:

SGH said:

Sea2Ski said:

How do you have uncured bacon? Isn't all true bacon, cured?  

I will take a shot at this brother Ski. The nomenclature used is an oxymoron. It is used intentionally to catch buyers attention. The meat used is cut from the belly, however it is brined and jerked instead of cured. So there is an element of truth in their statement no matter how misleading it actually is to the average Joe. With that said, it's just not cured bacon, but it is indeed bacon as you will see in the following paragraph.  
As to your second question, no, all bacon is not cured. However to be classed as "bacon", it must at a minimum be brined. Be it a wet brine or a dry brine. What they are offering is brined bacon made into jerky. Hope this helps my friend. 

Just to add to that, I have also read it is really more if a marketing ploy. They use celery powder or something similar that has nitrites/nitrates...so it really is cured. 

All that aside, I am passing right by TJs today and will be picking up some naturally cured bacon jerky. 

This is the truth.  Same nitrates as regular bacon, just applied via celery powder.  Always fun to catch family and friends that claim they can't eat cured bacon because they are allergic or claim a reaction.  Well, they just ate the same chemicals.

It is genius marketing toward people that want to believe so bad and have too much time on their hands to worry about this kind of stuff.  First world "problems".

Gunnar