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This Sunday I'm going to smoke some bacon that is almost finished curing. Its still kind of hot outside, I'm worried the smoker will get up to 105F real quick and the electric smoke box will be turned off too soon by the thermostat.
I was thinking of putting a couple blocks of ice in a pan to...
The 3 slabs are about 1/2 way cured. Here are some pics. The slabs have lost their softness and are pretty hard. When flipping them over and restacking, I put the one in the middle on the bottom, the one on top in the middle, and the one on the bottom on the top. I reposition the extra bag...
I opened up the packages that the three slab bellies came in and decided to re-weigh each slab and recalculate the cure:
Slab 3.545 kg - MSS = 122g and 7.9g pink salt
Slab 3.610 kg - MSS = 123.5g and 8.1g pink salt
Slab 4.173 kg - MSS = 143g and 9.3g pink salt.
I used the fish scale to weigh...
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