People are only just realizing how bacon is really made and it's made them vow to never eat it again
Topics: Food and Drink, YouTube, Social Media
Poppy Bilderbeck
Featured Image Credit: YouTube/Discovery UK
Topics: Food and Drink, YouTube, Social Media
A video revealing how bacon is made is leaving people divided with some left still 'wanting bacon' and others vowing to 'go vegan'.
Discovery UK shared a video to YouTube in 2018 from one of its shows revealing just how bacon is made.
It explains that the popular breakfast item used to be cured and smoked in people's own homes back in the olden days, but now?
Well, prepare yourselves.
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The clip from How It's Made was originally shown on Discovery UK and was later shared to YouTube, which reveals that bacon is 'now processed and even pre-cooked in factories' and it 'all starts with a load of pork bellies'.
It's like a scene out of Chicken Run, but with slabs of pork and you can see the pig is very much not alive anymore.
The meat descends into the jaws of the machine, 'tossed in a big tumbler' and softened so it's 'easier to remove the skin' - yep, it's as bad as it sounds.
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A worker then moves the pork belly skin-side down on the conveyer belt, is transported to a blade which slides the skin from the meat - with the skin being used for pork rinds.
Back to the belly, remaining skin is trimmed by workers before a brine solution is used to cure the pork, alongside liquid smoke and other flavorings being added and being 'repeatedly injected' with the curing solution.
A metal hanger is pressed into each of the pork belly, they're hung on a rack and then drenched with smoke adding 'flavor and color to the surface'.
Once cooked for five hours, it's blasted in a freezer, cooled for a further few days and then stored, stacked like bricks of a house in-between - a sight to behold for sure - before sliced into the shape of bacon in a way which makes you hang onto your fingers a little bit tighter.
Oh and the fat running off the bacon as it's cooked in the browning oven isn't exactly easy to watch either - and it's not taken long for social media users to weigh in.
One YouTube user said: "This hasn't reduced my love for bacon in any way, I just think about how much work it takes."
"Came here expecting to be put off bacon for life, left wanting bacon," another commented.
A third wrote: "My mouth salivated throughout the entire video... baconnn," while a fourth added: "Who's watching this while eating bacon?"
However, others weren't quite as amused.
The Sun reports a user saying: "I'm never eating bacon again."
"I'm going vegan," another resolved.
Others simply joked: "How bacon is made? when a momma pig and a daddy pig love each other very much..."
And another: "Peppa: 'Mommy pig where is George?'"
Brutal.