
Pine Bark Bacon
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Pine Bark Bacon
Thought I would share this. I fried the inner bark of a pine tree in bacon fat till golden brown and delicious. It does not taste exactly like bacon. It is salty and crunchy. Worth a try if you can scrape off some pine bark. I was debarking a whole tree so I saved some.


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Re: Pine Bark Bacon
Cool idea! Thanks for sharing! It has been a few years since I used the inner bark of trees for anything but cordage. I should try cooking/eating some again.
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Re: Pine Bark Bacon
Wait? Can our bodies even digest and absorb nutrients from bark? I have never heard this before
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Re: Pine Bark Bacon
Yes. Technically it is not bark, it is cambium.JeeperCreeper wrote:Wait? Can our bodies even digest and absorb nutrients from bark? I have never heard this before
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Re: Pine Bark Bacon
What kind of pine tree, and how did you remove the cambium?
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Re: Pine Bark Bacon
Don't know what kind of pine. I was debarking with a bush axe. Then I used a knife to scrap it thinner. I would love to get to a green dean class. Love his videos.
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Re: Pine Bark Bacon
Thanks for posting. Yup cambium from many trees are edible.

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Re: Pine Bark Bacon
Just a sidenote: the inner bark of the Loblolly tree, common down here in the south, sucks. It's nothing like the inner bark of northern white pines.
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