Bacon

Bacon is cured pork that can include fat, muscle, and skin. Cooks fry, grill, roast, or simmer it, use it to season or garnish dishes, and pair it with eggs.

Meat
Pork

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Category: Meat & poultry
Made from: Pork
Part used: Fat, muscle, skin
Cooked most in: Europe, The Americas
Top country: Germany
Dishes: 13 in the catalogue

Photo: Lara604 from Seattle, WA · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use bacon

Typical ways to cook or use it

Boil simmer
Garnish
Grill
Roast
Saute
Season
Shallow fry
Smoke
Wrap

Cooking with it

Fresh and dried bacon are usually cooked before serving. Boiled bacon and some smoked bacon are ready to eat, but can be cooked further.

Goes well with

egg
sausage
venison

Around the world

Where bacon is cooked

13 dishes in the catalogue use bacon. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list bacon among their ingredients.

Origins

The 1770s · United Kingdom
John Harris opened the first commercial bacon processing plant in Calne.

On the table

Dishes made with bacon

10 of the 13 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.

Bauernfrühstück
Germany
Caldo galego
Spain
Kulesha
Ukraine
Migas alentejanas
Portugal
Mulgikapsad
Estonia
Carthay Signature Fried Biscuits
United States
Rumpuć
Poland
Tarte flambée
Germany, France
Club sandwich
United States
Æbleflæsk

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include bacon.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: bacon in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.

Animal origin: From: meatChecked and not found: egg, fish, dairy, honey, insect, poultry, shellfish, other animal.
Caffeine: None
Pork: Contains

Family

Related forms

Made from: pork (cured)
A kind of: pork

Around the world

What bacon is called

Names in 77 languages, from Wikidata.

Spanish
panceta · tocino · bacón · beicon
French
lard fumé · bardière · bacon
Italian
bacon
Portuguese
toucinho
German
Speck · Schinkenspeck · Bratspeck · Frühstücksspeck
Dutch
spek
Greek
Μπέικον
Turkish
Domuz pastırması
Russian
бекон
Polish
bekon
Arabic
قديد الخنزير · لحم الخنزير المقدد · باكون · قديد
Persian
بیکن

Show all 77 languages

Albanian
Bejkon
Armenian
Բեկոն
Asturian
Panceta
Atikamekw
Morasikan
Bangla
বেকন
Basque
hirugihar · xingar
Belarusian
Бекон
Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)
бэкон
Breton
Kig-sall
Bulgarian
Бекон
Cantonese
煙肉
Catalan
cansalada
Chinese
培根肉
Chuvash
Бекон
Croatian
Slanina
Czech
slanina
Danish
Bacon
Esperanto
fumaĵita lardo
Estonian
Peekon
Filipino
Bacon
Finnish
pekoni
Galician
touciño
Georgian
ბეკონი
Haitian Creole
La
Hebrew
קותל חזיר
Hungarian
szalonna
Icelandic
beikon
Ido
Lardo
Indonesian
Bacon
Irish
bagún
Japanese
ベーコン · シュペック · パンチェッタの燻製
Javanese
Daging bakon
Kazakh
Бекон
Korean
베이컨
Latvian
bekons · cauraugusi gaļa
Lingua Franca Nova
Lardo
Lithuanian
šoninė · lašiniai · bekonas
Macedonian
Сланина
Malay
Bakon
Malayalam
പന്നിയിറച്ചി
Māori
pēkana · poaka whakapaoa · wāmu
Norwegian Bokmål
bacon
Norwegian Nynorsk
bacon
Novial
larde
Piedmontese
Bacon (pansëtta)
Punjabi
ਬੇਕਨ
Romanian
Bacon
Romanian
bacon
Samoan
Bacon
Scots
baucon · bacon · baccae
Serbian
сланина
Serbian (Cyrillic)
сланина
Serbian (Latin)
Slanina
Simplified Chinese (Singapore)
培根
Slovak
Slanina
Slovenian
slanina
Swedish
bacon
Tamil
பன்றி இறைச்சி
Thai
เบคอน · เบค่อน
Traditional Chinese
培根肉
Ukrainian
бекон
Urdu
بیکن
Uzbek
Bekon
Vietnamese
Thịt muối
Walloon
lård
Waray
Bacon
Welsh
cig moch
Wu Chinese
烟肉
Yiddish
שפעק

Sources and credits

Data

GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
Wikimedia Commons: photos
Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Wikidata item: Q11106

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