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Card 848 of 9992026-08-20 issue

Observed arrival · 2026-08-20

The Bacon Buddy, a Calculator for Curing Bacon

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Editorial interest 82/100 Selection signal · not a rating of the site

A focused home-curing calculator that scales salt, sugar, and pink salt #2 ratios by meat weight and generates a printable recipe card.

Landing page captured for the 2026-08-20 issue.

Why it surfaced

The Bacon Buddy turns a narrow kitchen task into a surprisingly complete tool: it offers unit switching, ingredient calculations, nutrition estimates, scaling, and detailed curing and smoking instructions. Its explicit warnings about Prague powder #2 make the site as much a small piece of safety literacy as a recipe gadget.

A focused home-curing calculator that scales salt, sugar, and pink salt #2 ratios by meat weight and generates a printable recipe card.

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