Hi everyone, just purchased the A-MAZE-N-SMOKER Pellet Smoker. I am going to cold smoke the bacon using it and this is the first I am cold smoking bacon period. So I have a few questions. I did try to do a search of the forums and didn't find the exact answers I needed. If they are here and I missed my apologies for redundancy but here it goes -
1) How long do you normally cure your bacon in the firdge?
2) I see on YouTube that people light the smoker at both ends sometimes for more smoke and sometimes they don't. Do you recommend lighting both ends of the pellet smoker for cold smoking bacon or is one end enough? I believe at the A-MAZE-N-SMOKER website it says for the Pellet model you get 11 hours of smoke, so if I light both ends I'll be burning twice as much fuel therefore I would get 5.5 hours of smoke out of it.
3) How long do you cold smoke your bacon for?
4) I live in the suburbs of Los Angeles, CA and it's usually pretty warm this time of year. By 11:00 it should be about 75 F here so in the smoker even with no heat added I bet it gets to about 85 with the A-MAZE-N-SMOKER going so I need to cold smoke when it's colder. Do you suggest I cold smoke at night instead of day? It might get about 60 F at night here which maybe in the cold smoker would get to about 70 or 72 F I am guessing. Is night maybe better or do you suggest I just wake up early and do the cold smoking and if it gets to about 80 or a few degrees over in the cold smoker it's okay?
Thank You,
James
1) How long do you normally cure your bacon in the firdge?
2) I see on YouTube that people light the smoker at both ends sometimes for more smoke and sometimes they don't. Do you recommend lighting both ends of the pellet smoker for cold smoking bacon or is one end enough? I believe at the A-MAZE-N-SMOKER website it says for the Pellet model you get 11 hours of smoke, so if I light both ends I'll be burning twice as much fuel therefore I would get 5.5 hours of smoke out of it.
3) How long do you cold smoke your bacon for?
4) I live in the suburbs of Los Angeles, CA and it's usually pretty warm this time of year. By 11:00 it should be about 75 F here so in the smoker even with no heat added I bet it gets to about 85 with the A-MAZE-N-SMOKER going so I need to cold smoke when it's colder. Do you suggest I cold smoke at night instead of day? It might get about 60 F at night here which maybe in the cold smoker would get to about 70 or 72 F I am guessing. Is night maybe better or do you suggest I just wake up early and do the cold smoking and if it gets to about 80 or a few degrees over in the cold smoker it's okay?
Thank You,
James