Bacon Taste Booster

[Jonathon]

Denny O Sorry, I did miss where you said it was doubled. Okay so then with 2 gallons you’d ideally want 2 packages, the benefits from 1 package will still absolutely be there but it wont be as strong. The same theory applies as above, the strength of the solution in a wet brine is the key, not necessarily the lb of bacon you are doing.

[Denny O]

Jonathon Then do you think my sugars, K salt and cure will still be ok or back down the salt?
Pops brine is anywhere from 2/3 cup to 1 cup/ gallon of water. I have never had a salty taste from a full cup down to a 1/2 cup of K salt in the mix. I’ve never tasted the “Bacon Taste Booster” product from Waltons.

I always rinse the bellies and sometimes give them a 20 minute soak in freshwater at least once sometimes twice.

[Denny O]

My original reason for trying Walton’s “Bacon Taste Booster” was in the thinking for Deer Bacon in a very, very coarse ground loaf. And I was going to incorporate it in with “Imitation Bacon #2”.
So, If I am pleased in a few weeks with the out come, I’m going to be looking at larger quantities of Walton’s “Bacon Taste Booster” at least for my bacon! I don’t get to deal with as many deer. Tee, he, he!

[Jonathon]

Also, I have an admission to make…I was not searching booster…I was searching imitation because I have about the same volume of brain matter as a medium-sized fish.

Denny O we used to tell people to not add |Bacon-Taste-Booster to anything other than injected and tumbled bacon. The original idea behind it was to be able to add the old world flavor of traditional methods curing methods like vac tumbling. Well, one day I tried it in imitation bacon and have never gone back, every batch of |Imitation-Bacon-Unit-Seasoning now gets the booster too. I also add it to snack sticks when I am doing something bacon-flavored.

I hope you enjoy!

[Denny O]

Jonathon I asked, “Jonathon Then do you think my sugars, K salt and cure will still be ok or back down the salt?”

[Jonathon]

Darn it, I missed the ENTIRE 1st post. No, I don’t think you should need to back anything down BUT it usually is best to make incremental changes to your process when adding something new, or making smaller batches. That really isn’t easily done with Bacon though. So the purpose of the booster is to impart the old-world flavor when brining so it is going to add more salt taste, but in my opinion, it is not even close to overpowering, plus sugar is the #1 ingredient, not salt in the bacon taste booster.

If it were me I’d go full strength on everything. The safe thing here is to tell you to add like 75% strength Booster with your regular recipe but that’s for cowards. I am pretty confident that using your full recipe and adding booster will only make you like your bacon better. I have had your bacon, thought it was great and I didn’t find it too salty at all!

[processhead]

Jonathon said in Bacon Taste Booster:

Denny O Sorry, I did miss where you said it was doubled. Okay so then with 2 gallons you’d ideally want 2 packages, the benefits from 1 package will still absolutely be there but it wont be as strong. The same theory applies as above, the strength of the solution in a wet brine is the key, not necessarily the lb of bacon you are doing.

So are you saying you use a full package of BTB whether making 10 lbs or 100 lbs of bacon?
That just seems counterintuitive to me, but please explain how that works.

[Jonathon]

processhead This only applies to what he is doing. If you are injecting or vac tumbling then you need to be concerned about concentration. if he put 1 belly in his gallon (I know he is doing 2 but for simplicities sake) then the belly is only going to pick up what the strength of the solution is. So, for injecting it is all about the amount you are putting into the meat, for a brine soak then it is about the strength of the solution.

[processhead]

Jonathon Ok, Thank you, sir.

[Denny O]

Jonathon There is the simplistic answer I was looking for!