bacon

A ‘Sweet Cure Bacon’ For this bacon, I wanted to push up the sugar percentage in the equilibrium immersion cure more toward what some might refer to as a ‘Sweet Cure’ bacon at 6% sugars. Just to give me and the family a taste comparison to belly bacon using lower sugar concentrations in...

My Grandson is a chef in a high end restaurant in Ft. Lauderdale. He came up for a visit & asked if he could bring anything. I said if you can get a nice thick pork belly that would be great. He said no prob, Gramps! Here is what he brought. It was already skinned & weighed 13 lbs. Here is...

I bought a pork loin at Sam's a couple of weeks ago. I cut it into 4 pieces. I froze two of them. Stuffed one and this one I cured & smoked for CB. I used Pop's brine with 2 TBS cure#1 instead of one. I injected as much cure into the loin as it would take. This is it going in.            ...

Grabbed a 2 pack of butt's at Sam's a couple of weeks ago. Butterflied them & took the 2 pieces with the fat cap on them for BBB. Used the rest to make hot Italian sausage. I cured the 2 pieces in Pop's brine for 9 days. Took them out this morning, soaked them for about an hour in fresh water...