Do You Need Nitrates in Bacon?

This is my second make your own bacon video. This time I tried a wet brine and reduced the salt.  I've been wondering for a while what would happen if I made nitrate and nitrite free bacon without curing salts and I set up an experiment to see if there was any difference between the two pork bellies.  Are you curious if you need curing salt or just want to see how to make bacon?  Tune in!

Curing salt might be hard to find.  Here is the amazon link:
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Fancy Cordless Slicer (It's a knife!)
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