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So I followed Discos tutorial on making bacon, and now that I'm on my ninth day of curing. I have a few questions:
Here's what I've done so far:
1) Three pound slab of pork belly(Costco). Two inches thick.
2) 1.05 oz. of brown suger
3) .9 oz of Kosher salt
4) .12 oz of cure #1
Mixed the rub up in a bowl and evenly spread it onto the belly - all sides. Slide the belly into a 1 gallon zip lock and and added the remaining rub(including the rub that fell onto the plate). Squeezed the air out of the bag and placed the zip lock bag into a glass pan and put it into the fridge. The fridges temp is set at 37*. Each morning I flipped the bag over in the pan and gentle rubbed the belly.
So my questions at this point are(I'm sure they'll be more later on in the process):
1) I see some liquid weeping out of the bacon, but not that much. I expected more. Should I see more then maybe a shot glass full?
2) Outside of the smell test is there a certain color I should be looking for? I guess I'm asking if there are any visible ways to make sure I didn't screw this up.
3) Being a virgin at curing I really don't want to make anyone sick, and any pointers will be appreciated.
Chris
Here's what I've done so far:
1) Three pound slab of pork belly(Costco). Two inches thick.
2) 1.05 oz. of brown suger
3) .9 oz of Kosher salt
4) .12 oz of cure #1
Mixed the rub up in a bowl and evenly spread it onto the belly - all sides. Slide the belly into a 1 gallon zip lock and and added the remaining rub(including the rub that fell onto the plate). Squeezed the air out of the bag and placed the zip lock bag into a glass pan and put it into the fridge. The fridges temp is set at 37*. Each morning I flipped the bag over in the pan and gentle rubbed the belly.
So my questions at this point are(I'm sure they'll be more later on in the process):
1) I see some liquid weeping out of the bacon, but not that much. I expected more. Should I see more then maybe a shot glass full?
2) Outside of the smell test is there a certain color I should be looking for? I guess I'm asking if there are any visible ways to make sure I didn't screw this up.
3) Being a virgin at curing I really don't want to make anyone sick, and any pointers will be appreciated.
Chris