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  1. Baconbass

    Please rate my bacon

    Hmmmm. Let me check how much international overnight shipping is. Seriously though paprika in the cure is my new favourite thing
  2. Baconbass

    Please rate my bacon

    Yep. Literally the first thing I did after spending so much time using the 10ml syringe last time. We have Alibaba and a few other versions of it here but as it's in Chinese I always have to try to figure out what something is called before I can find the exact thing I want. I asked about...
  3. Baconbass

    Please rate my bacon

    It's quite simple. I use wrights and just paint it on to the cured slab before putting it in the oven to slow cook like a hot smoker would. It works really well. If you haven't had real smoked food for a while you might even believe it's actually been smoked. Wouldn't fool you in a side by side...
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    Please rate my bacon

    Thank you so much for that. Luckily all my customers are only used to eating bacon if it's fried or baked after slicing. Basically I'm competing with supermarket pressure glued mystery bacon so people are used to cooking it. As for the pork supply here... While cold chain industry does exist...
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    Please rate my bacon

    This is pre frying. It friedls up pretty well. I'm using the oven method for faux smoking because I just can't figure out how to get away with indoor smoking. Working on it though. In the meantime my wet cured, painstakingly injected with a 10ml medical syringe rolled belly bacon came out...
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    Please rate my bacon

    I have been listening to the advice given in my previous thread and I'm learning and adjusting my recipes. I've extended my cure time and I have a few cure variations on the go. I'm still not happy with the quality of the meat I'm getting but I think I've found out why. The general public are...
  7. Baconbass

    I've started selling bacon before I fully understand what I'm doing.

    Did you happen to have a link to that calculator? So far I've seen the diggingdogfarm one and the meathead one but I'm not sure which one you were referring to. Thanks -Josh
  8. Baconbass

    I've started selling bacon before I fully understand what I'm doing.

    I'm going to explore the idea. Ive seen some injected that ended up with lumps of cure here and there. I'll want to learn how to do it properly I think
  9. Baconbass

    I've started selling bacon before I fully understand what I'm doing.

    These replies are great. The more I read the more questions I have. Wet cure seems to be a popular choice. I didn't like it last time I tried but I'm seeing I probably should have waited longer. My tub choice forced me to have a lot of excess water which meant it was less efficient compared to...
  10. Baconbass

    I've started selling bacon before I fully understand what I'm doing.

    Thank you for your replies everyone. I agree on converting my recipe to weights instead of volume. I'd copy pasted the recipe from Jesse Pryles' site above but for my own setup I've already built a calculator in excel that allows me to input the weights of each piece of meat and it spits out...
  11. Baconbass

    I've started selling bacon before I fully understand what I'm doing.

    At the moment I live in a high rise apartment. I'm on the top, 26 floors up, and I do have a balcony so I could potentially run a smoker up here but it's likely to draw attention if the neighbors smell smoke day in day out. Once I rent a commercial space I will move up to real smoking.
  12. Baconbass

    I've started selling bacon before I fully understand what I'm doing.

    I'm in China. Over here things are very often based on the philosophy 'it's easier to say beg for forgiveness than ask for permission. ' Having said that I will be exploring the relevant laws once I start scaling up so I can get access to wholesale meat prices and better shipping. My process...
  13. Baconbass

    I've started selling bacon before I fully understand what I'm doing.

    Laws, regulations... Haha if only it were that simple here... I am in fact looking into this at the moment, but also looking at the laws and regulations of other countries. I don't just want to be compliant with the law, I also don't want to hurt anyone. So far that means no cold smoking and...
  14. Baconbass

    I've started selling bacon before I fully understand what I'm doing.

    So, as the title says, I'm now a seller of bacon. I live in a country where good bacon is rare. Average bacon is rare. Terrible bacon is the norm here. My wife is a home baker and has made a full time job of selling cakes and bread online. I've recently started making bacon for fun and she...
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