Buckboard Bacon

[Astralogics]

Had some fam visiting from PNW and ran out of bacon. Luckily found a small butt sitting in our freezer to get ready for their visit. Forgot to snap shots of the prep, but here's the dets:

Approx. 3lb butt
1.7% Salt
0.8% Sugar
0.25% Curing Salt

Bagged and cured for 12 days, 2 day dry

Fam wanted to see how I would do it on the mini, so did it with apple and pecan chunks for 5 hrs @ 150° F.

Wrapped and rested for 4 days. Decided I wanted to torture test myself and slice it by hand. You can see where I started hating my life

Fried up some pieces I "screwed up" while slicing. Had some vultures begging for a piece, so I had to appease them somehow.

Ideally, I would have liked to have smoked it 5-6 more hours following the first day, but all in all, they were happy with how it turned out. So I call it a win.

Weather permitting, beef belly burnt ends or beef bacon next! Probably should do both, but we'll see!

 

[SmokinEdge]

Excellent work.

 

[DRKsmoking]

Looks great, and if it is liked by the ones at home, you are right, it is a win.

David

 

[Brokenhandle]

Nice job, looks really good!
You won't be disappointed with beef bacon!

Ryan

 

[smokerjim]

Looks good

 

[jcam222]

A fav around here, nice work

 

[Astralogics]

Excellent work.

Looks great, and if it is liked by the ones at home, you are right, it is a win.

David

Nice job, looks really good!
You won't be disappointed with beef bacon!

Ryan

Looks good

A fav around here, nice work

Thank you so much for the love ya'll! If the fam loved this, I'm sure beef bacon will take them to heaven.

 

[nlife]

My son and I make a lot of bacon cheeseburgers with buckboard bacon. It just fits so well.

Excellent work

 

[Astralogics]

My son and I make a lot of bacon cheeseburgers with buckboard bacon. It just fits so well.

Excellent work

Thanks! Haha, my dad and brother asked for some exactly for that reason!

 

[uncle eddie]

Looks awesome on my side of the screen!

 

[texomakid]

That looks good. Nice post & pics

 

[Colin1230]

Another great post! Looks fantastic. Yep, that would take a cheeseburger over the top.

 

[JC in GB]

That looks wonderful.. I will have to make some of that this summer. Thanks for posting.

JC

 

[millerbuilds]

Awesome job! That looks delicious!

- Jason

 

[Astralogics]

Looks awesome on my side of the screen!

That looks good. Nice post & pics

Another great post! Looks fantastic. Yep, that would take a cheeseburger over the top.

That looks wonderful.. I will have to make some of that this summer. Thanks for posting.

JC

Awesome job! That looks delicious!

- Jason

Thank you gents, really appreciate it!

 

[TimShrek]

Would you make it again? Would you rather use the butt for that or pulled pork?

 

[Astralogics]

Would you make it again? Would you rather use the butt for that or pulled pork?

Definitely! Actually make buckboard quite often, unless I get a nice belly on sale. Butts are like $3/lb vs $6/lb for belly out here. I usually buy 2 butts, one reserved for BBB, one for pulled.

 

[TimShrek]

Definitely! Actually make buckboard quite often, unless I get a nice belly on sale. Butts are like $3/lb vs $6/lb for belly out here. I usually buy 2 butts, one reserved for BBB, one for pulled.

Great! TY, I am going to give it a shot.

 

[Astralogics]

Great! TY, I am going to give it a shot.

Nice, excited for you! As the others have said, buckboard is perfect for cheeseburgers, you won't be disappointed!

 

[Ishi]

Nice looking Buckboard Bacon!