The Showman
Years on comedy stages taught Eric that the best experiences have energy, timing, stories, and plenty of laughter.
MEET ERIC GODFREY
Part comedian.
Part science teacher.
All Bacon King.
What happens when a touring comedian, lifelong educator, storyteller, and serious bacon fanatic walk into the same room? You get Eric Godfrey—and an experience that makes food science feel like the best show in town.
THIS WAS NEVER GOING TO BE AN ORDINARY COOKING CLASS
Eric knows how to command a stage—and a curing table.
Long before people called him the Bacon King, Eric spent years making audiences laugh as a professional comedian. He worked as an opening act and road manager for Carrot Top, learning firsthand how to read a room, keep a crowd engaged, and turn a presentation into an event people remember.
He later brought that same energy home to Central Florida, where he built and operated Porky’s Comedy Club. But Eric’s other stage has always been the classroom. As a science teacher and longtime educator, he developed a gift for taking complicated ideas and making them understandable, useful, and genuinely entertaining.
Bacon King USA is where those worlds finally collided: comedy, science, teaching, showmanship—and really exceptional bacon.
WHY BACON?
Because bacon is chemistry you can eat.
Great bacon is not magic—although the first bite can certainly feel that way. It is a careful balance of salt, sugar, spice, time, temperature, and smoke. Eric became fascinated by the process and started studying the craft behind traditional dry curing.
Then the teacher in him took over. The Bacon King Experience was created to give people more than a plate of bacon. It gives them the knowledge, confidence, ingredients, and freedom to create a flavor that is completely their own.
“I don’t want to simply tell you how bacon is made. I want you to understand it, laugh while you learn it, and leave holding bacon that could only have come from you.”— Eric Godfrey, The Bacon King
THE SECRET RECIPE
More than a class. More than bacon.
The Teacher
A career in education taught him how to make science approachable and give every student the confidence to succeed.
The Craftsman
Every class respects the slower tradition of dry curing, deliberate flavor building, and real hardwood smoke.
The Bacon King
Put it together and you get a one-of-a-kind host who can teach cure calculations and land a punchline in the same breath.
GOURMET BACON YOU CREATE
The guest is always the star.
The Bacon King may lead the experience, but the final flavor belongs to you. Every live participant creates a bespoke seasoning profile and leaves with 2½ pounds of pork belly to finish curing at home. Online students can learn the same process in their own kitchens and build up to 12 pounds of gourmet bacon.
That combination of entertainment, education, and genuine hands-on accomplishment is why guests call the experience fun, informative, memorable—and unlike anything else they have done.
2½ lbTake-home pork belly in every live class
12 lbPotential with the online experience
5 StarsFrom guests who brought home the bacon
100%Your own custom flavor profile
THE NEXT GREAT BACON STORY COULD BE YOURS