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Offline Electric Miner

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Coming soon - homemade bacon
« on: July 30, 2015, 06:55:41 AM »
This space reserved for my new project - curing pork belly and turning it into bacon. Currently waiting for the specialized ingredients I ordered to arrive. I'll  be hot smoking the first batch, then this fall/winter, once I get my cold smoking setup ready, I'll be cold smoking a batch.
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Re: Coming soon - homemade bacon
« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2015, 08:12:07 AM »
DANG!!!!
I assume, thick-sliced?
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Re: Coming soon - homemade bacon
« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2015, 08:22:54 AM »
I gotta say....my mouth is watering here just thinking about the pictures that Miner will post up.  _8j
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Re: Coming soon - homemade bacon
« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2015, 08:46:27 AM »
No shit...me too! Miner's photos make your stomach feel as if it is THERE! "0J
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Re: Coming soon - homemade bacon
« Reply #4 on: July 30, 2015, 03:01:55 PM »
Quote from: Captainkirk on July 30, 2015, 08:12:07 AM
DANG!!!!
I assume, thick-sliced?


I'm curing slabs. It'll be as thick as it's sliced by the cook.

And I have the basic ingredients I need now, so I'll start curing it this weekend, and smoke it next weekend, likely.
 
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Re: Coming soon - homemade bacon
« Reply #5 on: July 31, 2015, 09:57:26 AM »
Eight pound pork belly is going to be sectioned down into manageable pieces tonight for a dry brine/cure. It'll get smoked after my next work rotation.
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Re: Coming soon - homemade bacon
« Reply #6 on: July 31, 2015, 09:25:32 PM »
New project! Making my own bacon!


8.4 pounds of nice pork belly ready to be transformed into that pinnacle of meaty comestibles - bacon!




Quartered for easier handling - check the edge of that top slab. Should make nice bacon!




The rub consisting of

1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup sea salt
2 tsp granulated onion
2 tsp granulated garlic
2 tsp mustard powder
scant 2 tsp Prague powder




Rubbing my meat.




8.4 pounds of pork belly rubbed and headed toward the refrigerator.




To be continued next weekend, when it heads for the smoker...
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Re: Coming soon - homemade bacon
« Reply #7 on: August 01, 2015, 07:37:41 AM »
Boy, that looks good!  L@.
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Re: Coming soon - homemade bacon
« Reply #8 on: August 09, 2015, 09:45:40 AM »
Doing smoke tests today with the new smoker mod. Want to try different woods for scent/flavor, and check to see what temp the main smoker gets to. Smoking the bacon tomorrow!
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Re: Coming soon - homemade bacon
« Reply #9 on: August 09, 2015, 10:20:40 AM »
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Re: Coming soon - homemade bacon
« Reply #10 on: August 09, 2015, 12:09:51 PM »
Can't wait to see it.  Wish we could smell it as well.
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Re: Coming soon - homemade bacon
« Reply #11 on: August 09, 2015, 12:34:26 PM »
Today's progress...


Smoke test in new smoker mod. Checking various woods so my wife can approve my choices. We settled on a mix of hickory and apple wood for the smoke tomorrow.





Main smoker hangs around 102 to 104 with it's heat shut off, just getting heat from the small smoke box through the ducting.





Test frying a few slices of the cured, but unsmoked bacon to check for salt level.





Fries like bacon, looks like bacon, tastes a lot like bacon now.





Four pounds is peppered, four pounds is non-peppered. All is in the refrigerator drying now.


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Re: Coming soon - homemade bacon
« Reply #12 on: August 10, 2015, 05:06:08 PM »
Finished!


Two pounds peppered and ready for some drying





Eight pounds headed back to the refrigerator to dry before smoking





Into the smoke box with hickory and apple smoke





Finished bacon





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Re: Coming soon - homemade bacon
« Reply #13 on: August 11, 2015, 09:21:32 AM »
(Sam is running to store for bacon).................................. *6'
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Re: Coming soon - homemade bacon
« Reply #14 on: August 11, 2015, 01:25:14 PM »
Won't be as good. There is no comparison between store bacon and homemade bacon.
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