Cure?

[country smoker]

Pork belly can be cured without nitrites, salt will do the job just fine.

 

[daveomak]

 
Pork belly can be cured without nitrites, salt will do the job just fine.

When smoking foods, the smokehouse has a reduced oxygen environment... the nitrite prevents botulism, the deadliest pathogen known to man...

I strongly suggest you start using cure#1 when making smoked meats....

FOR ALL MEMBERS ON THE FORUM....     USE NITRITE WHEN MAKING BACON AND SMOKING MEATS....

 

[atomicsmoke]

Pork belly can be cured without nitrites, salt will do the job just fine.

Belly cured with salt only will not taste like bacon.