Beef Bacon with Boneless Short Ribs: An Experiment

[worktogthr]

Thanks to all he help of many people on this forum I came up with a game plan on turning some boneless beef short rib pieces into beef bacon.

Soaked the piece in pops brine with some garlic, onion, and black pepper added to the mix. Left it in the fridge for two weeks, took it out today, rinsed it, dried it and here it is:

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• worktogthr
• Sep 12, 2015

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• worktogthr
• Sep 12, 2015

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• worktogthr
• Sep 12, 2015

Coated it with generous amounts of garlic, onion, and black pepper:

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• worktogthr
• Sep 12, 2015

Now these will hang out uncovered in the fridge for a few days until I smoke hem on either Monday or Tuesday. Planning the warm smoke method for about 10-12 hours just like when I do pork belly bacon. Excited to see how this turns out. Wish me luck!

-Chris

 

[tropics]

 

[hank2000]

What Tropics said

 

[Bearcarver]

 

Move Over Richie!!!

Make room for the Bear------->>>>

Brought you one too---->>

 

Bear

 

[worktogthr]

Got the slab in at around 9:00 with hickory in the AMNPS. Set the MES to 100 which on my unit is about 120-130.

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• worktogthr
• Sep 14, 2015

 

[worktogthr]

Here it is at about 3.5 hours of smoke. Taking on some color:

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• worktogthr
• Sep 14, 2015

I'll be back later.

 

[Bearcarver]

Looking Good!!

Bear

 

[b-one]

Very interesting!:Looks-Great:

 

[worktogthr]

Here it is off the smoker. Got about 9.5 hours of hickory smoke:

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• worktogthr
• Sep 14, 2015

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• worktogthr
• Sep 14, 2015

I'll be back in a few days for the sliced pics and taste test! Thanks for watching!

-Chris

 

[Bearcarver]

Here it is off the smoker. Got about 9.5 hours of hickory smoke:

I'll be back in a few days for the sliced pics and taste test! Thanks for watching!

-Chris

Me Too---Well for the Pics, anyway!!

Bear

 

[worktogthr]

So today I sliced open the slab. Now unfortunately I got unlucky. I was advised that the way the rib bones run would probably be against the grain which would make it more tender so I cut down the middle.

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• worktogthr
• Sep 15, 2015

Now the reason I say in unlucky is because it seems like the grain runs a bunch of different ways and mostly diagonal . It's going to be hard to really cut against the grain. I am planning on slicing super thin anyways so I'm sure it will be fine. I baked one piece in the toaster oven to try it:

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• worktogthr
• Sep 15, 2015

It curled up a lot while cooking but I have to say... Really nice texture when I ate it. Not quite crispy like bacon. A little chew but really tender. The taste is like bacon and pastrami combined which is what I expected but really awesome.

I will be back tomorrow after I thin slice it with my electric slicer. Thanks!

 

[tropics]

Chris would you use them meaty ribs again for that? Does have a real nice Pastrami color.

Richie

A point for trying something out of the box.

 

[worktogthr]

 
Chris would you use them meaty ribs again for that? Does have a real nice Pastrami color.

Richie

A point for trying something out of the box.

Thanks for the point Richie!  To answer your question, probably not.  The only reason I tried it was because I got a large quantity of these boneless short ribs for a great price and I like to tinker.  It is similar to pastrami which I eat with eggs often so I could probably get brisket cheaper in most cases and make pastrami.  Definitely a tasty experiment.

 

[dirtsailor2003]

Tasty looking beefy beacon! Nice smoke!

 

[worktogthr]

Tasty looking beefy beacon! Nice smoke!

:points1:

Thanks so much!!

 

[worktogthr]

Finally sliced it up today. Found the grain after a little searching but definitely made more tender bacon when cut across the grain.

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• worktogthr
• Sep 16, 2015

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• worktogthr
• Sep 16, 2015

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• worktogthr
• Sep 16, 2015

Fried up a couple of pieces. Let them go for too long but they were crispy and delicious.

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• worktogthr
• Sep 16, 2015

Thanks again for watching!

-Chris

 

[tropics]

Chris That does look better today.Thanks for sharing

Richie

 

[jcollins]

looks awesome 

 

[Bearcarver]

That Looks Awesome, Chris!!

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Mighty Tasty!!

I could handle a few slices of that with my Daily Eggs!!!

Bear

 

[4pogo7]

Awesome looking bacon!