Maple rubbed & maple smoked bacon

[rich-]

My second batch of Maple smoked Bacon

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• Mar 12, 2013

The belly out of Pops brine, into the fridge for an overnight nap

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• Mar 12, 2013

Into the smoker the next morning

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• Mar 12, 2013

This is at approx. 6 hours into the smoke

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• Mar 12, 2013

Here it is after very close to 14 hours in the TBS with Maple Pellets.

Thanks for looking, hope I posted this correctly.

Rich-

 

[boykjo]

Awesome looking bacon Rich..........................

 

 

[kingfishcam]

Very nice looking bacon!

 

[kathrynn]

Looks great!  Let us know about the taste test!

Kat

 

[daveomak]

Looks good Rich....  I'd eat it....   Nice smoke too.....    

Dave

 

[woodcutter]

Looks like great bacon! How does the maple smoke taste? I cook steaks over a maple fire and it sweetens them. My family loves it.

 

[rich-]

Thanks to you all for your kind comments, I am really happy that I finally figured out how to post pictures and give the comments about each picture.

I do feel my Bacon has a very good sweet flavor to it, It may have a tiny bit of an overpowering smoke flavor as well, but certainly not bad enough to be distasteful.

Looking forward to having my wife cook up a pot of Beans and I want to add some of this Bacon in with the ham hocks.

Now that I know what I'm doing with the posting, I will post more pictures and comments along with my upcoming smokes.

Rich-

 

[migraine]

That is some bacon.  I doubt you bought those bellies at the IGA in town. 

Seeing those makes me really want to give it a try now that I have "mastered" salmon

-Brian

 

[jrod62]

Bacon looks good

 

[bear55]

This looks so good. How many pounds of bellies did you start with?