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  1. trizzuth

    Local home made maple syrup bacon! cure question

    Thanks Dave, this is good reading indeed!  I noticed that the table containing information on what has nitrites/nitrates is incorrect for the Morton's Smoke-Flavored Sugar Cure.  Morton's has indicated that the smoke flavored one contains nitrite, but no nitrate, however this table has it the...
  2. trizzuth

    Local home made maple syrup bacon! cure question

    Interesting. Now I'm a bit scared, especially since I let my family eat this bacon. Sounds like the Smoke-Flavored Sugar Cure is the way to go here, using a traditional dry curing method. Now I am wondering, should I rinse the regular sugar cure off, and go BACK to using the smoke-flavored...
  3. trizzuth

    Local home made maple syrup bacon! cure question

    So I took Martin's sound advice, removed bacon from saran wrap, it was nicely coated with the sugar cure, and hung the three slabs loose in my downstairs fridge with a pan underneath to catch the dripping moisture leaving the bacon.  Now it is a true dry-cure.  Good thing is, now I don't have to...
  4. trizzuth

    Local home made maple syrup bacon! cure question

    OK, taking notes from one of the masters.  Going to go now and remove slabs from saran wrap and will just hang on some hooks in the fridge and let drip.
  5. trizzuth

    Local home made maple syrup bacon! cure question

    The way the morton's sugar cure comes is that the entire 7lb bag is filled with their salt/sugar mixture.  Then there is a separate small packet of the "Curing spice" that contains the sodium nitrate and nitrite and some other spices.  So simply adding the salt/sugar mixture as a dry cure...
  6. trizzuth

    Local home made maple syrup bacon! cure question

    So I just took the bacon slabs out of the fridge.  I bought them on Sunday, added the smoke flavored sugar cure on late Monday afternoon (approx 2:30pm) and they have been in my basement fridge since then, turned twice.  So I am not even looking at a full 48 hours with the smoke flavored...
  7. trizzuth

    Local home made maple syrup bacon! cure question

    ok, well the package does say ""This mix is formulated especially for dry curing large cuts of meat like hams or bacon." it clearly says "bacon" right there.  So I do not think that I cannot use the smoke flavored sugar cure for bacon, it may just take longer.  So as I do have some normal...
  8. trizzuth

    Local home made maple syrup bacon! cure question

    ok, so obviously the reason why my last batch was way too salty when done was that i overcured it based the amount of sugar cure I used. i also wanted to make it clear that i am not using a typical "brine" but the fact that I added some maple syrup to the mixture did make it a bit wet.  The...
  9. trizzuth

    MULE'S CURED, SMOKED BACON IN MY DELUXE UDS WITH AMNPS. WITH Q-VEIW

    P.S. must take pics of slabs next to corvette
  10. trizzuth

    MULE'S CURED, SMOKED BACON IN MY DELUXE UDS WITH AMNPS. WITH Q-VEIW

    Where's the bacon pics! Love your UDS and amnps smoker box! Sweet stuff man, perfect size..:grilling_smilie:
  11. trizzuth

    Local home made maple syrup bacon! cure question

    So I bought 11 lbs of pork bellies the other day and got my cure ready. This time I used Morton's smoke flavored sugar cure, and wanted to mix in some of my home made maple syrup from the two sugar maples in my back yard, what could be better than that, right? So here's my dilemma... Cure...
  12. trizzuth

    Brown sugar-Maple syrup bacon

    Hey, at what point do you add the maple syrup? I am curing ten plus pounds very soon and have home made syrup I'd like to use,. Using Morton's smoke flavored sugar cure this time for the cure. Thanks!
  13. trizzuth

    Country Cured Ham - From Go to Show: Q/View

    Hmm, interesting, thank you for the useful information as always..  I didn't go nuts with the injections when I did them, just about 3 along the bone as far in as i could get with my injector.. Regardless, my 4 months is up in July, but I will probably want to wait till the fall to attempt...
  14. trizzuth

    Country Cured Ham - From Go to Show: Q/View

    Hey Tom, What is your plan with the ham once it's done? Are you going to cut it into steaks?  Serve it whole, bake it? what? Am I correct in assuming that Country Cured Ham still needs to be cooked in order to be eaten? Thanks bud!
  15. trizzuth

    My first attempt on curing my pork legs ( proscuitto)

    HAAH! love this analogy!  But then I'd have to take it down and get rid of it and wouldn't be able to get that "smokey ham in your face" scent as soon as I walk in my kitchen door! and I'd miss that terribly.  
  16. trizzuth

    My first attempt on curing my pork legs ( proscuitto)

    your hams are sure looking nice dude!  Are they black like that from the black pepper you added?  Wasn't sure if you rubbed them with black pepper or not..  Not sure about proscuitto, so maybe a cellar or basement may be a good idea if you have a de-humidifier running all the time down there...
  17. trizzuth

    Country Cured Ham - From Go to Show: Q/View

    Mr. T - you get any more fluid coming out of that ham?  I've had two very very small droplets come down since hanging mine up in the kitchen, nothing significant at all, seems dried out pretty good and smells like heaven to me at least!
  18. trizzuth

    Country Cured Ham - From Go to Show: Q/View

    Got the ham back in the Kitchen on Saturday.  Wife didn't say anything till mid-day Sunday, I was thinking she didn't notice it even though it was sort of hanging in her face!  Then I got the "This thing smells, get it out of here" comment.  But that seems to have subsided a bit as the smell is...
  19. trizzuth

    Todays Smoke!! Scotch Eggs for "the game"

    I'm in this thread so I can come back here later and make these, SO GOOD!
  20. trizzuth

    My first smoked eggs.......with Q-views.....

    Just poking in here as I need to do some eggs soon, maybe next with some wild sockeye salmon I have.  Your smoked egg salad or smoked angry birds are to die for! Need to do this ASAP!  Might break out the smoker again in the snow!
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