Bacon Second Go Round

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xjcamaro

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Mar 16, 2009
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Since my first round of bacon went so well i got a second belly and started it 9 days ago and got it all ready tonight to stick it in the smoker tomorrow. I had a 10 lb belly cut into 3 slabs, but i cut one of the three in half and coated it in coarse ground pepper for pepper bacon. Here is a tease until i get the smoked pictures up in the next couple days.

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See ya when i get them all done!
 
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That is just wrong to tease like that.  Can't wait to see the finished sliced and ready to eat!
 
Looks like a great start and I look forward to more Qview
 
They look nice already!

Can't wait for the dark reddish brown color & the pictures of some slices later!  

Bear
 
Here you go! Now you can continue drooling all over your keyboards!

In the smoker

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Regular Bacon out of the smoker

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Pepper bacon out of the smoker.

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All the bacon sliced

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Pepper bacon sliced

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All vacuum sealed and ready for the freezer

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We fried up a couple peices, all tasted good. I really like the pepper bacon, very tasty! I wish i would have made more than a tiny little slab of it. Oh well, next time i will make about half of it pepper bacon.

Thanks for looking!
 
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The peppered chunk looks good. It all looks good.

I have 14.5 pounds of belly that hit 7 days in the fridge.

Have some andouille ready too.

Waiting on some pecan to get busy.
 
That looks great XJC.

The color is beautiful!

Gotta be tasting great!!!
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Sorry about the drooling above !

Bear
 
I cured this bacon in the TQ cure without any sugar (1/2 oz per lb). Put it in bags and let it sit for 9 days, flipping and rubbing it daily. On day nine i pulled it from the bags, rinsed it off and soaked it in ice water for a 1/2 hour. Pulled it out, rinsed it again and pat dried it with paper towels. Cut and fried a test peice, it was perfect. The small slab of pepper bacon at this point i just generously sprinkled pepper on each side and rubbed it on and it stuck. Then i set in the fridge overnight uncovered to let it create the slight crust. On the 10th day i fired up the smoker to about 125-130* and used apple wood. Smoked it for about 5 hrs, meat temp was about 100*. Pulled it out at 5 hrs, wrapped it in plastic wrap and let it sit overnight in the fridge. Then sliced it up, and vacuum sealed it. Easy as that!
 
I do have to say thanks to BearCarver and his step by step instructions and some of his pointers. Without them i probably wouldnt have attempted this bacon thing at all!  
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I do have to say thanks to BearCarver and his step by step instructions and some of his pointers. Without them i probably wouldnt have attempted this bacon thing at all!  
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I was glad to help---You're a quick study!

Bear
 
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Now that bacon looks awesome and I wish that I had some bellies myself.
 
I guess that im lucky that i have 2 butchers locally that i can get fresh bellies from. My first batch of bacon was started from a belly that hadn't been off the pig for more than 12 hrs, now that is fresh. But they dont always have them. The other place vacuum seals them and freezes them as soon as they come off the pig.

I dont think that alot of people locally go in and buy bellies cause i get some weird reactions the first time i asked for them. oh well!
 
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