New Batch of Dry Cured Bacon
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Dave in AZ I’m really to new to the bacon game. I have only done the dry cure so far, but plan on trying other methods down the road. I liked how easy the dry cure is and it is pretty hard to screw it up. The biggest thing I have learned from others on here is to rinse and re-rinse before smoking to avoid being too salty. I’ve never had issues with being to salty, but I also add brown sugar and black pepper before smoking. That may help counter any excessive salt from the cure.
GWG8541 You must not be using an Equilibrium cure with the final total salt in it, if you have to rinse to not be too salty? Id have to use that EC as I can’t rely on being home, and could end up going 5 days too long and salty. All my dry cures, I’ve been using the calculator at genuineideas dot com, to put just the correct amount of salt in bag, then it can never be too salty. Check it out if you haven’t, you may like it. I’ve found it gave perfect results for ham, Canadian bacon, corned beef, capacolla, and pastrami, and is perfectly repeatable so you can get just the salt you like. But it is a bit slower than using a gradient cure with extra salt.
Anyways, your bacon looks superb, and you answered above how you sliced it so nice, great work!
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I picked up a 11 lb belly at COSTCO and made some Bacon in anticipation of some fresh garden tomatoes coming on soon. Nothing like a BLT with your own Bacon and home grown tomatoes. After the curing, I seasoned the bacon with the Excalibur 20 mesh black pepper, which gave a good consistency, and some brown sugar before I smoked it.
A little sample for breakfast and man was it good. I just need that garden tomato to ripen up now.
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I picked up a 11 lb belly at COSTCO and made some Bacon in anticipation of some fresh garden tomatoes coming on soon. Nothing like a BLT with your own Bacon and home grown tomatoes. After the curing, I seasoned the bacon with the Excalibur 20 mesh black pepper, which gave a good consistency, and some brown sugar before I smoked it.
A little sample for breakfast and man was it good. I just need that garden tomato to ripen up now.
GWG8541 Decent amount of meat in them bellies. Nice job.
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processhead yeah, mine was 5 and a half days. That seems like a long cure for that thin belly.
GWG8541 Wowzers! That is some very meaty bacon!
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Thats looks great this morning, could use some. lol
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GWG8541 said in New Batch of Dry Cured Bacon:
Ted Frodyma Thanks, I finally got to use my Hobart slicer on bacon. I picked up on Market Place. The Costco is in Centerville, Ohio. I would ask the one near you to see if they could get them in. Pork belly has become a popular or fad BBQ meat so the prices increased prior to this inflation we are experiencing. Pork Belly is crazy expensive for what it is.
I can’t remember if you ever shared a picture of that slicer you picked up? Do you recall the model number?
The bacon looks excellent. I suspect you will be making it regularly from now on.
processhead I thought I posted a pic of the slicer before Christmas last year. I found it on Marketplace and got a pretty good deal on it. Everything works good on it and it is a HD6N.
“You never really die until you end up on the wall at a Cracker Barrel”
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processhead I thought I posted a pic of the slicer before Christmas last year. I found it on Marketplace and got a pretty good deal on it. Everything works good on it and it is a HD6N.
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processhead I thought I posted a pic of the slicer before Christmas last year. I found it on Marketplace and got a pretty good deal on it. Everything works good on it and it is a HD6N.
GWG8541 very nice!
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I picked up a 11 lb belly at COSTCO and made some Bacon in anticipation of some fresh garden tomatoes coming on soon. Nothing like a BLT with your own Bacon and home grown tomatoes. After the curing, I seasoned the bacon with the Excalibur 20 mesh black pepper, which gave a good consistency, and some brown sugar before I smoked it.
A little sample for breakfast and man was it good. I just need that garden tomato to ripen up now.
GWG8541 Pretty cool that your entry here made it to the Instagram site. Congrats
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I picked up a 11 lb belly at COSTCO and made some Bacon in anticipation of some fresh garden tomatoes coming on soon. Nothing like a BLT with your own Bacon and home grown tomatoes. After the curing, I seasoned the bacon with the Excalibur 20 mesh black pepper, which gave a good consistency, and some brown sugar before I smoked it.
A little sample for breakfast and man was it good. I just need that garden tomato to ripen up now.
GWG8541 That’s mighty fine bacon. Bring on them 'maters. I’m just now getting blooms .
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