Product Title: Benton’s x Milk Street Bacon Box
Note: Drop available through midnight May 15; starts shipping May 19.

Main Description: Curated exclusively for Milk Street, this variety pack contains six pounds of Benton’s traditional dry-cured Tennessee bacon in three different cuts. You’ll get four pounds of thick-cut classic strips (two hickory smoked and two unsmoked), plus one pound each of smoky bacon steaks and hand-cut unsmoked lardons, giving you options to cover all your culinary bases. Each piece is carefully selected to ensure the ideal fat-to-meat ratio, then cured simply with salt, brown sugar and black pepper to bring out the pork belly’s rich flavor and juicy, succulent texture. The unsmoked bacon is all about the pork, with a gentle sweetness that balances the salt and highlights the meat’s natural qualities. Benton’s hickory-smoked offerings are, no surprise, seriously smoky, as they smoke low and slow over local hickory logs in an antique wood stove; the aroma will fill the kitchen the second they hit a hot skillet. The steaks and lardons are generously cut and have a dense meatiness that holds up to longer cook times, which gives you plenty of time to render out all that incredible fat. As for the strips, we love frying them up for a classic breakfast or the best BLT of all time; they’re also hefty enough to cut into mini-lardons for stir-fries and braises. Try a box and you’ll see why Benton’s has been sought after by chefs and home cooks alike since 1947.

Each Benton’s x Milk Street Bacon Box comes with two 1-pound packages of hickory-smoked bacon strips, two 1-pound packs of unsmoked bacon strips, one 1-pound pack of hickory-smoked bacon steaks and one 1-pound pack of unsmoked lardons. Each box is packed by hand just a few feet away from the smokehouse. Milk Street has secured an exclusive partnership with Benton’s that allows us to offer curated artisan bundles of their bestselling pork products that you can’t find anywhere else. This drop is only open for orders through midnight Friday, May 15.

Net Weight: 6 pounds total
Ingredients: Pork Belly, Salt, Brown Sugar, Black Pepper
Place of Origin: Madisonville, Tennessee

How to Use: Who said bacon is only for breakfast? This variety pack contains everything from classic strips of smoked bacon to hand-cut unsmoked lardons, so you have the right cut for any recipe. The lardons are excellent in our French Lentil Salad with Bacon and Frisée Salad with Bacon and Poached Eggs; they also make a great pancetta substitute. The meaty hickory-smoked steaks can be cut into any size and shape you like, adding extra texture and heft to our Stir-Fried Kimchi with Bacon and Japanese Fried Noodles with Bacon and Cabbage. As for the classic strips, we love them fried up crisp with eggs and toast or on a BLT.

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Benton’s has been around since 1947, when a Tennessee dairy farmer started selling country hams from a painted block building. Current owner Allan Benton, who learned to cure and smoke pork from his grandparents in southwest Virginia, took over in 1973. Today, Allan and his son, Darrell, still run the operation from a small smokehouse in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains. Their decades-long craftsmanship has turned Benton’s into one of the most recognized names in American bacon and country hams.

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Title: Benton’s x Milk Street Bacon Box | Milk Street Store
Description: A six-pound variety pack of naturally dry-cured bacon with hickory-smoked and unsmoked strips, hickory-smoked steaks and unsmoked hand-cut lardons.

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