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I want to make a small bacon test.

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    Jonathon
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    mikemikemike Math is important in cure calcs! Keep us up to date on how it goes!

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    • JonathonJ Jonathon

      mikemikemike Math is important in cure calcs! Keep us up to date on how it goes!

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      Canning Dry Cured Sausage Primo Grills Team Blue Sous Vide Power User Cast Iron
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      Jonathon You said it. Many of my old recipes that I started with uses Potassium nitrate and Sodium nitrite. I always maintained safe level, but measurment is very important. Cant’t do that on an ounce scale.

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      • JonathonJ Jonathon

        mikemikemike Math is important in cure calcs! Keep us up to date on how it goes!

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        Jonathon

        Does my math sound right?
        Can you at least tell me if your products directions for oz is by weight or volume?

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          mikemikemike It will be by weight, always do by weight, it will be more accurate. How heavy is your ham? That’s what you want to go on, also 30% pump sounds like a lot, most of Excaliburs are 10 and some are 20%

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          • JonathonJ Jonathon

            mikemikemike It will be by weight, always do by weight, it will be more accurate. How heavy is your ham? That’s what you want to go on, also 30% pump sounds like a lot, most of Excaliburs are 10 and some are 20%

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            Jonathon

            The list of ingredients and weights is right above. 2 pound ball of pork shoulder.
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            • M mikemikemike

              I just got my order from Waltons and want to test making buckboard bacon with a small 2lb leftover piece of pork shoulder i have from making snack sticks.

              I want to use these ingredients:
              2lb piece of boneless pork shoulder
              Sodium Erythorbate
              Cold Phosphate
              Bacon Taste Booster
              Cure#1
              Sugar
              Pickling salt
              Distilled water

              I am going to be injecting and then vacuum tumbling with an over night brine.

              Need some help figuring out how much of those ingredients to use for an injection into a 2LB piece of pork shoulder.

              Thanks

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              mikemikemike I’ve never done the brine, but I have done buckboard with the dry rub and its come out great, I go 5-6 days turning every day on a boneless butt that I’ve cut in half. It kind of naturally is in half when you take the bone out. I just finish cutting thru the rest. Then rinse reallly good just like the instructions say( I always rinse more don’t like mine real salty), then let sit in fridge for 2 days to dry out, then fallow the instructions for smoking it comes out great

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              • AaronSilvesA AaronSilves

                mikemikemike I’ve never done the brine, but I have done buckboard with the dry rub and its come out great, I go 5-6 days turning every day on a boneless butt that I’ve cut in half. It kind of naturally is in half when you take the bone out. I just finish cutting thru the rest. Then rinse reallly good just like the instructions say( I always rinse more don’t like mine real salty), then let sit in fridge for 2 days to dry out, then fallow the instructions for smoking it comes out great

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                Hit 140F IT. Turned off smoker, letting it slowly climb to 145F.
                Looking good. Total time: 5 hours, 23 minutes
                Update: It reached 143.8F before it started to decline. I am happy with that. Going to let it drop down to 135F before i pull it out of smoker.
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                  Hit 140F IT. Turned off smoker, letting it slowly climb to 145F.
                  Looking good. Total time: 5 hours, 23 minutes
                  Update: It reached 143.8F before it started to decline. I am happy with that. Going to let it drop down to 135F before i pull it out of smoker.
                  20200903_192942.jpg

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                  Oh man did i nail it! It weighs 2 oz more then starting weight, flavor is spot on. Well balanced smoke/salt/sugar/and seasonings.

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                    glen
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                    Man that looks good! Where’s the beer?

                    Give a man a fish and he eats for a day
                    Teach a man to fish and he drinks beer for a lifetime

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                    • G glen

                      Man that looks good! Where’s the beer?

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                      glen

                      In Mah Belly!

                      Im just drinking my usual Franziskaner and miller lite.

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                        mikemikemike Nicely done sir, sorry about missing that it was 2 lb, somehow I read the amount of solution you created but didn’t see the 1st thing listed was 2 lb of pork. You got a really nice smoke on that, by the way!

                        Get more help with your processing questions and learn more about processing meat by subscribing to our waltonsinc.com youtube page at https://wltns.link/waltonstv I am a Gorilla, love yourself

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                        • JonathonJ Jonathon

                          mikemikemike Nicely done sir, sorry about missing that it was 2 lb, somehow I read the amount of solution you created but didn’t see the 1st thing listed was 2 lb of pork. You got a really nice smoke on that, by the way!

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                          Jonathon
                          Made eggs benedict with the buckboard bacon. Man was it good. I am really happy how well it cured just overnight with a quick injection and vacuum tumble. The cold phosphate and sodium erythorbate really are game changers.

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                            Jonathon
                            Made eggs benedict with the buckboard bacon. Man was it good. I am really happy how well it cured just overnight with a quick injection and vacuum tumble. The cold phosphate and sodium erythorbate really are game changers.

                            20200906_220623.jpg

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                            Canning Dry Cured Sausage Primo Grills Team Blue Sous Vide Power User Cast Iron
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                            mikemikemike Looks beautiful Think I’ll make eggs benedict and banana fosters tomorrow morning. Just like breakfast in the French Quarters…

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                              mikemikemike Looks beautiful Think I’ll make eggs benedict and banana fosters tomorrow morning. Just like breakfast in the French Quarters…

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                              Chef

                              Sounds like a breakfast of champions.

                              This buckboard bacon is probably the best canadian bacon ive ever had. If Belly wasn’t so expensive, i would probably cure my own, but its cheaper to buy it already cured which really makes no sense.

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