substitutes
Bacon substitutes
Out of bacon? These are its closest flavor matches, ranked by Epicure's flavor-compound model — the percentage is how near each sits to bacon in flavor space. Speck is closest at 47%.
Cooking with bacon?
Paste your recipe into Mise — we'll find every ingredient as a real product you can buy, and swap the ones you can't, like bacon, for the closest match in stock.
Turn a recipe into a basket →How we choose these
Each match is the nearest neighbour to bacon in Epicure, a food-science model mapping the aroma compounds of ~1,790 ingredients across 4 million recipes. The percentage is their flavor-space similarity. Taste as you go — substitutes shift texture and intensity too.
Flavor data: Epicure (Radzikowski & Chen, 2026), arXiv:2605.22391, CC-BY-4.0.