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Vande Rose Farms bacon starts with a Heritage Duroc hog raised crate free on an Iowa family farm and ends as a thick cut slice smoked over real applewood, in one of two cures: dry cured, or uncured with celery...
Read the articleWhere to buy heritage pork, in our case, is the farm shop: Vande Rose Farms ships Heritage Duroc pork by FedEx, frozen with dry ice, to your door....
Can you dry age pork? Yes, in a cooler with controlled temperature, humidity, and air flow, which is why it is done in purpose built rooms; our process...
Best bacon in America is a search that lands on our product pages, because our bacon is named America's Best. That is the product's name, not a ranking,...
The Duroc pig origin story starts with two strains of red hogs in the early 1800s: the Jersey Red of New Jersey and the Duroc of New York,...
Can you heat a spiral ham in a slow cooker, the way the spiral ham recipes slow cooker pages promise? USDA's slow cooker page says reheating cooked food...
Our spiral ham for Easter is the spiral sliced ham: a fully cooked, uncured, spiral sliced half ham from Heritage Duroc hogs, smoked over applewood, 6 to 10...
Crate free pork, as our Porkology page uses the term, means hogs raised with no gestation crates and no farrowing crates, the single sow stalls used on many...
How long does bacon last is answered by USDA's storage table: 7 days in the refrigerator and 4 months in the freezer for bacon, 3 weeks and 6...
Is uncured bacon healthier is a question USDA does not answer, because "uncured" is a labeling term for bacon made without added nitrite, and it tells you nothing...
A Christmas ham from Vande Rose Farms is our fully cooked, uncured, spiral sliced half ham, 6 to 10 lb, smoked over applewood, and the whole job on...
This spiral ham cooking time chart uses the rule on our ham's package: 325°F, covered with foil, 10 minutes per pound, until the center reaches about 135°F. A...
