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I finished my first pork belly yesterday and the bacon came out awesome. My wife likes maple flavor bacon. So was thinking about doing it next time. Every recipe I see says to mix salt, brown sugar, pink salt number one with the maple syrup and rub on pork belly in a ziplock bag to cure. Am I...
I didn’t see a cold smoking forum, so I hope this is the acceptable place for this.
I’ve been researching and studying bacon cures, and I have a question I haven’t seen addressed. When using sugar, spices, syrup, etc in a dry cure, isn’t that flavor washed away if you rinse the belly to reduce...
3 loins = Bacon, 1 Maple, 2 Reg. ready for the smoker
So Canadian Bacon , or up here Back Bacon, either way should be good.
Picked up 3 nice loins , weighed them , figured the mix for each. Put mix right in the bag , then like shake and back , shock all over then rubbed it a lot into the pork...
Found brisket on sale here for $1.99lb, grabbed a 15 pounder to grind for burgers
Had the fixin's on hand for a unique burger, even a homemade bun
Fired up the BS flattop, first off caramelize some onions
a couple of thick slices of my maplebacon
Get a 10 brisket patty going in the bacon...
Trimmed and sliced an eye of round roast, marinated 4 pounds a couple days in MapleBacon jerky seasoning, cure and water.
Dehydrated 4 ½ to 5 hours at 155º periodically pulling pieces that were done to our preference.
Refrigerated overnight in an open Ziplock bag and then next day vacuum...
After chasing maple flavor for my bacon for over 20 years I have finally found the recipe that works for me! Picked up a 11.44 pound pork belly at Costco, biggest they had on display at $4.29lb.
Slurry Cure:
90 grams canning salt
1/2 cup 100% pure Grade A maple syrup
1/2 cup clover honey
1/2...
Good morning and thank you for letting me join. I've made bacon a number of times in the past but I've never flavored it with anything other than smoke. Until just recently I always cold smoked the bellies. A couple of weeks ago I tried hot smoking bellies and I am very impressed. I use a store...
9 lbs of meaty pork belly curing with maple and pepper before hitting the smoker at 150ish using cherry wood. Currently curing in the fridge for 14 days. Costco quite selling maplebacon so I figured I’d make my own :)
A few weeks ago I came across several packs of pork belly in Costco. They pork had been skinned and cut into sections 3-4" inches thick. The price was VERY reasonable so I grabbed a few (around 5-7 lbs total ) to make some bacon.
With these many sections, I knew using my bacon hangers in the...
Last week I went to Costco and found they had pork belly. I dug thru them all and found the biggest, thickest one.
When I got it home I cut the belly in half, knew then I'd picked a winner.
Made a mix of 18grams Cure#1, 4.6 ounces canning salt, two ounces maple sugar, 1 cup pure 100% maple...
I will be doing an equilibrium brine for my maplebacon.
This is the rough draft plan #1.
Looking for some input on the maple flavor aspect.
All weights and measurements are in grams.
Equilibrium percentages
% Salt 2.0%
% Sugar 2.0%
PPM Sodium Nitrite 156
Using Cure #1 Nitrite 6.25%...
Hello
After seeing the delicious looking bacon that many were making, I had to try my hand at my own homemade bacon.
It was a success! I’m excited to fry up more tomorrow to try more of it. I can see how making your own bacon can get addicting.
First off - thanks for all of the guidance and...
A friend gave me some maple sugar. I always wanted to try making bacon with it.
I started with a slab of what Canadians call side pork and Americans call pork belly. I cut the skin off.
I weighed the pork after removing the skin and measured the thickest part.
I used a meat injector to...
I goofed and forgot to order applewood chunks.
I have some really nice maple and hickory... just finished a 10 day pop's brine on some pork belly and need to hot smoke tomorrow.
I've never done maple or hickory for bacon. Any recommendations?
I was eating some of my MapleBacon for breakfast. I opened an email from my niece telling me how much she liked some Chipotle Bacon I had made for her. As with most smokers, my brain short circuited and I knew I had to make Maple Chipotle Bacon.
I went for back bacon (Canadian bacon to the...
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