First time Speck and bacon

[Jabee]

Hi,
here are some picks i am having a go at speck should be ready in a few weeks according to the recipe and some maple bacon with Misty Gully Maple bacon cure. will use this cure until more cofident then look at making my own cure.
cheers
Joe

 

[checkdude]

Watching this. Love speck but haven't tried to make it yet. Please post your comments and receipe. Good luck.

 

[Jabee]

Watching this. Love speck but haven't tried to make it yet. Please post your comments and receipe. Good luck.

Will do I am leaving the bacon 14 days in the frdige and the speck 7 as per recipe.

 

[DRKsmoking]

Watching this also,
And welcome from Nova Scotia

David

 

[Jabee]

Hi,
here are some picks i am having a go at speck should be ready in a few weeks according to the recipe and some maple bacon with Misty Gully Maple bacon cure. will use this cure until more cofident then look at making my own cure.
cheers
Joe

here is the speck after a week of curing in a vacuum bag, then washed in red wine and left in the fridge for 24 hours now in the smoker can only lower temp on the treager to 75 deg c / 167 deg f will smoke until internal is 65 deg c / 150 deg f if this works i may have to look at a vertical smoker that can go as low as 18 deg c / 65 deg f and fresh out of the smoker to rest for a few hours then into the wine fridge at 8 deg c

 

[Jabee]

Here is the final product of Bacon raw tastes great. the speck ended up in the bin too salty. My wife being from Germany says the bacon is on the money and the tail end is more like speck so is happy with that for the cooking. Just purchased a series three pitboss vertical pellet smoker so will see how that goes.

 

[Fueling Around]

Welcome from the Americas.

Here is the final product of Bacon raw tastes great. the speck ended up in the bin too salty.

Bin? You threw it away? Nooo
Anything too salty can get poached in warm water. Poaching reduces the salt but also washes away a lot of the smoke (not sure if speck is smoked)

 

[Jabee]

Welcome from the Americas.

Bin? You threw it away? Nooo
Anything too salty can get poached in warm water. Poaching reduces the salt but also washes away a lot of the smoke (not sure if speck is smoked)

thank you for the welcome Yeh the wife wasnt too impressed with the first speck too dry as well, but likes the ends of this one for speck so when we get low will have another practice

 

[JLeonard]

looks pretty good!

Jim

 

[Jabee]

looks pretty good!

Jim

Thanks Jim yeh its not too salty and cooks up a treat :)