Makin' Bacon!

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eatapedia

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Jul 5, 2009
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G'day All!

Here are some pictures from my "Porktastic Adventures in Bacon Making".   (Sorry for the giant pics...can't resize on the fly, it seems)

Highlights:  I "built" a cold smoker, I didn't kill myself with botulism and I can now make all the bacon I can eat.  Mwahahaha!

Lowlights:  This batch was very salty.

The full story is detailed over 3 blog posts found here:

Part 1 - http://www.eatapedia.com/?p=593
Part 2 - http://www.eatapedia.com/?p=616
Conclusion - http://www.eatapedia.com/?p=629

I started with two pork bellies:

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Cured them and put them in the fridge for 7 days:

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Rinsed them off and put them in my FrankenTraeger:

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Sliced them up and fried me up some bacon!

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