<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nThe Bottom Line<\/h2>\n\n\n\n You can easily tell a strip of spoiled turkey bacon from a fresh one by inspecting the slice. Slimy bacon coupled with either a sour smell, gooey texture, mold, or any combination of the three is a clear indication that it should be discarded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Turkey bacon, when fresh freezes well if you follow the provided guidelines and consume it before the expiration date. That said when in doubt, do not risk food poisoning. So toss it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The slimy texture on your turkey bacon most likely means that it is going bad. The slime appears when naturally occurring bacteria within the meat feast on sugar. This sugar is usually added to the turkey meat during the manufacturing process, producing lactic acid as a by-product. Turkey bacon sandwiches are a breakfast favorite at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9499"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9714,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9499\/revisions\/9714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9499"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=9499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}