It forms a pellicle for the smoke to stick to, instead of the smoke mixing with moisture on the surface, and forming a bad tasting scum.Looks perfect. Why is drying before smoking it so important?
LOL---I probably used a poor choice of words there, but the better words were in the back of my head, and I was in too much of a hurry to roam around back there.That sounds pretty important. Bad tasting scum on bacon would suck.