Can you freeze bacon?

What freezing does to bacon

Bacon is a cured meat with high fat content, so it has a short shelf life even in the freezer. Rancidity develops even in the freezer, and the curing salts hasten its development. The longer you store it, the more the quality and flavor will deteriorate.

How to freeze it

1. Overwrap the store package with heavy duty foil or other freezer wrapping, being sure to push all the air out of the package and tightly close the wrapping around the inside package.
2. If freezing opened bacon, remove the portion you want to freeze from the package as soon as you open it, not after it has been in an open package for a while.
3. Wrap the portion for freezing in heavy duty freezer plastic wrap or bags, making the package air-tight.
4. Freeze quickly to a temperature of 0 degrees F. or lower.

Thawing and using it

For faster thawing, place food in a leak proof plastic bag and immerse it in cold water. After thawing, cook immediately.

Depends on the form

• The Food Marketing Institute recommends that opened bacon not be frozen.
• Their recommendation is that unopened bacon only be frozen up to one month.
• Rapid freezing prevents undesirable large ice crystals from forming throughout the product.