Slicing Meat

[Norman Walsh]

I know when you are slicing cured brisket you cut against the grain

(sounds like a lump of timber) But what about cured belly for bacon do you cut with or against?

Norm

[fendi_pilot]

Cut against the grain. (Picture bacon.)

[rlibkind]

If it's bacon you want, cut it like bacon, against the grain as fendi_pilot says. But that's not the only way to cut cooked pork belly, fresh or cured. Any number of dishes (particularly some roasted and braised ones) call for the belly to be cubed, usually about 2-inches square, but some about half that size.