What do you do with the skin?

[jak757]

Smoking my first batch of bacon right now. I'll be trimming the pork belly skin off after it smokes. I'm curious -- what do you do with your skin?

 

[pineywoods]

You could render it down for lard
You could make cracklins

http://www.deltablues.net/cracklin.html

 

[Bearcarver]

I buy mine without the rind-----Got enough bad eating habits!


Bearcarver

 

[jak757]

Avoiding temptation! Maybe not a bad idea. As I put those bellies in to smoke I started thinking about the skin....cracklins maybe as Pineywoods wrote.

 

[fanciesmom]

I save them in the freezer and add them to a pot of beans as needed.  Yummmmmmm.   Our last local bellies were without the skin - and the bacon just didn't have the same quality as the bacon done with the rinds on. 

 

[bayouchilehead]

Make Cracklin' with it!!