Image zoom What Exactly Is Beef Bacon?
Beef bacon is exactly what it sounds: It s bacon made from beef instead of pork. Pork bacon is simply cured, smoked, and sliced pork belly. Similarly, beef bacon is made by curing, drying, smoking, and then thinly slicing beef belly. The wagyu bacon tastes great, is versatile, and utilizes fattier cuts closer to the belly of the cow, Zimmerman said. It s also Kosher and Halal when prepared as such. We started selling a beef bacon product because there was a large demand for it throughout the Middle East region and we wanted to be able to bring the taste of American quality bacon to households there, said Anthony Rastelli, vice president of Rastelli Foods Group s Global Division, a company that has been selling beef bacon throughout the Middle East since the early 2000s. It was important that we could give customers a product that they were able to enjoy, while still following Islamic law and dietary restrictions.