Got 13 beautiful pork jowls a couple weeks back. I trimmed them up nicely, put them in a standard dry cure (diggingdog farms bacon calculator), garlic powder, onion powder & black pepper for the seasoning. Rotated and massaged for 14 days, then let them dry for 48 hours in my fridge, and cold smoked them with hickory pellets, (mixed in w a little cherry at the end) and now have them resting back in the fridge. I used my Lang fatboy with racks removed, and did this over a couple days, avoiding the warmest parts of the day. I also keep a UV tarp over my cook chamber while smoking, and it brings the ambient temps of the cook chamber down about 15 degrees or so. Highest temp I hit was about 85 degrees. I took plenty of pics along the way. Still haven’t tasted it yet but I am absolutely dying to!!
I skinned them, so I could keep the skins for my boudin.
just followed my pork belly bacon procedure, weighing my meat in grams, and measuring out the cure salt and sugar accordingly. I used about 1/4 cup of garlic, onion and black pepper in each bag (each bag had 4-5jowls)
hanging in my fridge, forming a very nice pellicle. The extra day bc of the weather really dried them out nicely.
first time using meat hooks. I ordered these on eBay, super cheap and they worked like a charm!
here they are when I first started smoking them.
After about 8 hours...
after about 14 hours they are really starting to look and smell good!
That’s the color I’m looking for!!
all done! The smell was almost more than I could stand.
and here they are now, currently resting. I don’t know how much longer I can wait!!
I skinned them, so I could keep the skins for my boudin.
just followed my pork belly bacon procedure, weighing my meat in grams, and measuring out the cure salt and sugar accordingly. I used about 1/4 cup of garlic, onion and black pepper in each bag (each bag had 4-5jowls)
hanging in my fridge, forming a very nice pellicle. The extra day bc of the weather really dried them out nicely.
first time using meat hooks. I ordered these on eBay, super cheap and they worked like a charm!
here they are when I first started smoking them.
After about 8 hours...
after about 14 hours they are really starting to look and smell good!
That’s the color I’m looking for!!
all done! The smell was almost more than I could stand.
and here they are now, currently resting. I don’t know how much longer I can wait!!
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