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Title: Bacon re-visited
Post by: Smokin Papa Steve on June 27, 2016, 09:28:34 AM

Wanted to try this again so with the leftover pork belly from Costco, so did another cure, this time for 9 days. Added a little more salt to the curing process and drizzled some honey on top right after removal from the PBC grates.  The smokey scent was really nice and so was the taste.  Last night made a BLT sandwich and it was deelish!  For slicing I used a serrated bread knife making it very easy to control the thickness of the slices.  If you haven't tried making bacon, I recommend it as it is easy and fun

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Title: Re: Bacon re-visited
Post by: hikerman on June 27, 2016, 09:32:31 AM

Very nice looking bacon!  You do know that now I'm jonesing for a BLT too!!! :D

Title: Re: Bacon re-visited
Post by: Smokin Don on June 27, 2016, 09:37:26 AM

Bacon looks great!!! Nice job!!! Don

Title: Bacon re-visited
Post by: Pappymn on June 27, 2016, 11:41:36 AM

Awesome. Looks great

Title: Re: Bacon re-visited
Post by: muebe on June 27, 2016, 11:42:40 AM

Great looking batch!

Try making some pig candy with that stuff. Yum!

Title: Re: Bacon re-visited
Post by: ACW3 on June 27, 2016, 12:04:13 PM

Your bacon looks great!

Art

Title: Re: Bacon re-visited
Post by: JimmyV on June 27, 2016, 01:13:40 PM

Looks great! We make our own charcuterie  at my work including bacon. We do a cure with Aleppo pepper and Szechuan peppercorns and smoke with pecan wood. Homemade bacon is way better than most of the store bought stuff. Nice job!