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Update: Cure worked great! Split them into 1lb slabs and cold smoked 2 for 8 hours with apple and hot smoked 2 for 5 hours with a mix of cherry and hickory. Both turned out really good, but I preferred the hot smoked. Thanks again for all of your help, I definitely wont be going back to store...
I used a cure calculator I found on the site http://www.diggingdogfarm.com/page2.html
Belly was 1956g and I used 4.88g pp#1, 34.5g salt, 19.56g of brown sugar and then 2 tbsp of maple syrup.
I also saw conflicting information about syrup on before or after, so I just went with before...
Hi Guys,
This is my first time using Prague powder and I decided to make bacon. I know this is probably a dumb question, but do you have to mix it with water prior to rubbing it into the pork belly? I used a cure mixture of PP#1, salt, sugar and maple syrup, and now I'm worried I screwed it up...
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