2 weeks ago I scored two beautiful skin on pork bellies when I went to pick up my 16 lbs of hard back fat. $2.99 a pound for the pork belly, and $1.99 a pount for the hard back fat.
Cured 25 lbs of bacon for the past 2 weeks, and sliced it all today. Smells awesome!
Just had to make a token BLT out of the scraps! Wonderful!
Made 22 lbs with brown sugar, cinnamon, and maple syrup (my wife and my boys favorite)
The other 3 lbs I used to make some curry bacon for myself too (my favorite!)
The Hobart 410 made short work of the slicing, especially since I partial froze the bacon for about an hour first, sure helps when slicing!
Sliced my cured bacon today
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Thanks Chris! No smoke on this batch. My wife likes hers with no smoke, so we just cured and sliced this batch.
I like to cold smoke mine, but I realized early on that if I can get her to participate a bit in my hobby then she doesn't complain as much when I buy things like the Hanna PH meter, convert a freezer to a drying chamber, etc!
I can always take a frozen pack and do a couple hour cold smoke on it, then stick it in the fridge to use the next day. I have a really nice Lonestar Grills vertical insulated smoker and an
A-Maze-N pellet tube that I use inside the smoker for cold smoking.
Here's the smoker I have, the standard one, not the mini.
http://www.lonestargrillz.com/Insulated-Smokers.html
Makes killer Q, but that's for another forum. Also have a stickburner that I use when I feel like playing with the fire all day.
I like to cold smoke mine, but I realized early on that if I can get her to participate a bit in my hobby then she doesn't complain as much when I buy things like the Hanna PH meter, convert a freezer to a drying chamber, etc!
I can always take a frozen pack and do a couple hour cold smoke on it, then stick it in the fridge to use the next day. I have a really nice Lonestar Grills vertical insulated smoker and an
A-Maze-N pellet tube that I use inside the smoker for cold smoking.
Here's the smoker I have, the standard one, not the mini.
http://www.lonestargrillz.com/Insulated-Smokers.html
Makes killer Q, but that's for another forum. Also have a stickburner that I use when I feel like playing with the fire all day.