I have become more and more bitterly disappointed with supermarket bacon over the years; the wafer thin strips that spew grey, salty water into the pan so they poach rather than fry, withering up into tiny corrugated flaps of anaemic disappointment. You can taste the pig’s depression in the meat.
I was a little dubious then when I was contacted by a PR company asking me to review some Spoilt Pig bacon – I wasn’t expecting much, a mediocre porky product at the most.
Spoilt Pig bacon, however, delivers such good all round quality it virtually left me speechless. Produced by Denhay Farms, the multi award-winners. each Spoilt Pig rasher is thick and juicy, without being slimy, and is a natural, blushing pink hue. As soon as they hit the pan the smell is intoxicating, the fat rashers are impervious to shrinkage so what you see really is what you get. The elegant ribbons of fat melt into the meat and fry to a salacious crisp without being sullied by watery run off. The end result is a delicious, crisp and rosy rasher, packed full of natural, sweet porcine flavour that delights the taste buds.
Spoilt Pig bacon is hand cured in natural sea salt using traditional methods, and is available smoked or unsmoked. The curing leaves the meat plump, and the saltiness is palatable rather than overpowering. The smoked bacon has just the right amount of delicate ashy flavour to compliment rather than overwhelm the tastes or the meat itself.
Spoilt Pig pigs are outdoor reared on British farms, spending over half their lives in the great outdoors, free-ranging in mud and grass. The rest of the time they are pampered in straw barns that are kept clean, spacious and warm. This TLC is the reason the pigs have been approved by the RSPCA as having high standards of care and as a result, the bacon produced carries the RSPCA Freedom Food Mark.
Spoilt pig bacon could even give some butchers a run for their money.
Whether you want to show your support for British Farming and Freedom Food initiatives or simply want to pamper your taste buds, you can’t lose with Spoilt Pig bacon.
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This bacon sounds wonderful – I’m always glad to hear about companies that are working hard to get good quality, caringly made free range pork products to counter the other cheap and nasty stuff on the market. What made you so dubious about this product? Was it the name, the fact that a PR company got in touch with you about it, or the fact that you’d never heard of it before? (just curious!)
.-= Laura @ HungryandFrozen´s last blog ..going back to canada on a journey through the past =-.
I was dubious simply because it was a ‘supermarket’ meat, rather than one from a local farm shop/butcher and all the others I’d tried over the last months/years have been shockingly bad. This was a great surprise.
I shall look out for this!
.-= Sarah, Maison Cupcake´s last blog ..Cadogan Arms, Kings Road, Chelsea =-.
I think Waitrose & Sainsbury’s have it.
I like the name of the brand as well – very witty!
Yes it certainly is rather catching.
Oh I love this bacon. It tastes like bacon used to do years ago.
Thanks for your comment Ivy.
Lovely sounding bacon.
Thanks Aoife.
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