Pancetta vs. Speck — What's the Difference?

Pancetta (Italian pronunciation: [panˈtʃetta]) is a salume made of pork belly meat that is salt-cured. Pancetta in Italy is typically cooked to add depth to soups and pastas.

Speck is smoked or pickled pork belly. In Germany, speck is pork fat with or without some meat in it.

Italian bacon that has been cured in salt and spices and then air-dried.

A small spot, mark, or discoloration.

A cured belly or pork; bacon.

A tiny amount; a bit

To mark with specks.

A tiny spot, especially of dirt etc.

A very small thing; a particle; a whit.

A small etheostomoid fish, Etheostoma stigmaeum, common in the eastern United States.

Fat; lard; fat meat.

(uncountable) A juniper-flavoured ham originally from Tyrol.

The blubber of whales or other marine mammals.

The fat of the hippopotamus.

(transitive) To mark with specks; to speckle.

The blubber of whales or other marine mammals; also, the fat of the hippopotamus.

A small discolored place in or on anything, or a small place of a color different from that of the main substance; a spot; a stain; a blemish; as, a speck on paper or loth; specks of decay in fruit.

A very small thing; a particle; a mite; as, specks of dust; he has not a speck of money.

A small etheostomoid fish (Ulocentra stigmæa) common in the Eastern United States.

To cause the presence of specks upon or in, especially specks regarded as defects or blemishes; to spot; to speckle; as, paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture.

A very small spot;

(nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything

A slight but appreciable addition;

Produce specks in or on;