Time for some more Bacon!!

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smokeamotive

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Lees Summit Mo.
Was about out of bacon so it's time to make some more.
This is going to be Maple Brown Sugar.
Here's the belly I started with.



Cut into slabs and measured out all the ingredients.

All rubbed down and vacuum packed and ready for the fridge for the next 10 days or so.


Out of the fridge and soaked in water to cut the salt content down.
And a fry test.


Rubbed them down with pure maple syrup and into the fride overnight to from the pellice.
Now into the smoker with the AMNPS with some pitmasters choice for @ 12 hrs.


Out of the smoker and back into vacuum bags for another nap in the fridge for a week or so.


Here's a pic showing the color.



And getting sliced up!





And a taste test. Nice and smoky ,sweet and can definately taste the Maple. Sorry for the poor pic quality. Guess I should have checked the camera settings BEFORE I took the pics!


All packaged up and ready for the freezer!



Thanks for lookin!
 
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Nice Bacon!

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Your bacon looks great!  Just out of curiousity, what % salt did you use in your dry cure and how long did you need to soak it to get the salt level where you liked it?

Thanks!
Clarissa
 
Clarissa, I'll have to get back with you on the salt content. Don't know off the top of my head and I did the calcs @ three weeks ago. But I soaked them for about a hour in ICY cold water.

Ok Clarissa here's what I used. I used a packaged cure that had the Cure #1 already mixed with other ingredients. Courtesy of Todd J. But I added salt (Kosher) at a rate of 1.12 grams Per LB.
 
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