I'm Not Buying Bacon Anymore — This Old Mountain Trick Gets Twice the Meat for Half the Price

🔗 Grandma never wrote hers down, so I finally did. All 118 plus much more. Get em before they're gone: https://www.opalrowe.com Opal Rowe grew up in a Kentucky holler where nobody ever bought bacon in a package — they took it down off the hog and cut it themselves. In this one she starts by handing you a fix you can do free tonight, with the very pack already in your icebox, to keep your bacon from curling up and shriveling away to a greasy handful. Then she tells you the thing the store would just as soon you never knew: what that little package in the cooler actually is, and the one cut her Aunt Icy taught her to buy whole and slice at home for twice the meat at half the price. She cooks two pounds side by side at the end and lets your own eyes be the judge. Nobody ever wrote it down. So she finally did. In this one, Opal covers: • The free oven trick that keeps your bacon flat instead of curling and shriveling — do it tonight with the pack you already have • Why a whole pound of store bacon cooks down to a little greasy handful • The line of fine print on the back that quietly admits how much of what you pay for is water • The even-cheaper cuts your grandparents swore by — side meat, streak-o-lean, and the old "poor man's bacon" • What that package in the cooler actually is — and the old mountain way to get twice the meat for half the price Tell me down in the comments where you're watching from — and did your mama or your mawmaw cut hers at home off a whole piece, before anybody sold it sliced in a bag? What did your people call it where you come from — side meat, middlins, something else? I read every last one. CHAPTERS 0:00 The $10 bag that cooks down to nothing 0:26 A free fix you can do tonight 1:44 What Aunt Icy taught me 7:16 The difference the store won't tell you 8:15 Read the back of the package 10:39 How to buy it whole and slice your own 15:09 The even-cheaper cuts — side meat & jowl 17:16 Twice the meat for half the price 18:40 The honest truth 21:03 Two pounds in the pan — the proof 23:11 The split down the generations