Recent content by Mike1190

Thank you all for welcomes. I've lurked around this site for awhile, learned a lot, but never posted. I appreciate all the info. I'll let them finish and check out the center to see that they're cured. Glad to know I might not have to throw them out. I'll definitely keep acid out of cures...

Thank you for the reply. I wasn't aware of that. Is there any way to save these? Can I pull them from the cure they're in and reapply without the acidic components? I'm guessing there'd be no way to know how much nitrite the belly picked up, so my guess would be no, but thought I'd ask.

Hi Everyone, I've been successful in making bacon a number of times previously using dry cures that I calculate using the digging dog farm calculator. However, I wanted to experiment with some liquid in the brine to see if I could impart some additional flavors. From what I've read, when...