Currabinny Cooks: This chicken, bacon and cider traybake is easy and so delicious

And a bacon and cabbage soup that is 'less scary' than coddle 

This bake is perfect paired with buttery mashed potato. Picture: Bríd O'Donovan

There is nothing quite as irresistible as the smell and sound of bacon crackling on a hot pan.

Bacon has six inherent ingredients with umami flavour. A Japanese word that loosely translates to “deliciousness” umami flavours are responsible for that meaty, savoury flavour we all love so much. Umami is also present in ingredients like miso, soy sauce, mushrooms and some aged cheeses but there is nothing quite like the hit your taste buds get from bacon. Chemistry plays a role here too.