Chiggers are common in Florida too. You can take precautions for chiggers too. Don’t forget to live. You can always find something to fear.

Lay out the strips of bacon on the parchment paper and than fold the extra over the top of the bacon and then the bacon will not stick to the vacuum bag on either side. You could even use the cutting board idea as something stiff to slide it into the bag with and then pull the cutting board out using it like a pizza peal. The parchment paper will keep the bacon from sticking and when vacuume seal it visually almost completely disappears.

How about parchment paper? You can often pick up precut sheets also which if you are lucky might make it easier to use.

At some point in time I lost access to meatgistics with my preferred…cox.net email address but was able to log on using my YouTube address which is …gmail.com. The livestream would not allow me to chat without logging on with …gmail.com. Is it possible now to chat/post replies using my cox address?

I would think eating “raw” meat would be almost be the same as eating your meat rare.

My Pit Boss grill settings are:
P0 on 18 off 55
P1 on 18 off 70
P2 on 18 off 85
P3 on 18 off 100
P4 on 18 off 115 (default)
P5 on 18 off 130
P6 on 18 off 140
P7 on 18 off 150
On and off times refer to auger cycle in seconds