Daniel, I try to make a batch every year. We enjoy it mainly during the summer with home grown tomatoes in BLT’s. The bacon is far superior (and pricier, lol) to even the best grocery store bacon. One thing about this style of bacon is that it cooks SO much faster. The reason is commercial bacon is wet cured as opposed to this style of dry cure, so when cooking commercial bacon you have to cook the water out. Dry cured bacon does not shrink as much either.