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adiochiro3

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Cured another batch of BBB because my college kids came home & cleaned out my supply.  
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I used Morton's Tender Quick #1 and dry-cured for 7 days.  The bacons were rubbed with black pepper and brown sugar.  I decided to soak them for a couple of hours; I normally do this in bowls, but I realized the FoodSaver bags I cured them in would also work well for soaking -- DUH!  Here they are in the bath...

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Did the fry test...

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I smoked them for 8.5 hours with hickory using the soldering iron-in-a-coffee-can method to smolder the dust.  I had a devil of a time during the smoke because we had a blustery storm blow in Friday night, burning the dust at fast rates and keeping temps really low.  Worked out just fine in the end, though.  I just packaged 9 or so pounds of BBB (well, probably 8 after the weekend consumption...
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I was disappointed to find as much fat in some cuts as there was.  Most of the cuts were nice and lean, as usual for BBB.

Thanks for perusing my post!
 
Looks like you are good for a month or so when they come back for spring break LOL - good looking Bacon James 
 
Lookin good! I like the fatty pieces of BBB cuz they seem to have more flavor. I have to start some curing today as I'm on my last bag.
 
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I absolutely love buck board bacon and many of my customers ask for it over the belly. It's better on BLT's to me too.
 
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