Lardons Nature

Lardons Nature are plain pork lardons, meant for cooks who want the shape and fat of lardons without the smoked profile. By our assessment, they are useful when a pan needs rendered pork and a savoury base but not extra smoke. The trade-off is that the flavor is quieter, so the result depends more on seasoning and browning in the dish around them. In practice they behave like any small diced pork fat: they start mild, then turn crisp at the edges if watched closely. Compared with Lardons fumés, Lardons Nature are the calmer, less assertive version of the same idea. The catalogue says Lardons de porc natures, which is exactly what they are.