yesterdays bacon smoke

[desertlites]

 

[craig chamberlain]

Excellent job!!!

 

[walking dude]

wow dude..........just wow...........
did you post your method and smoke times yet/

points for you

 

[desertlites]

7.5 #s pork belly,cut into manageadle pieces & into buckboard cure for 8 days-turned daily- in the meantime used the fat to make cracklins(yumm)used jimbos technique as far as the baste & fan for a few hrs.Smoked at 120'ish for 7 hrs. with hickory-basted with extra sauce for first couple hrs. than went to apple juice.I pretty happy! my first time doing belly-this was the smaller 1/2 I bought,needed 1 under my belt before I play with the other-have done other bacons in the past with great results.kept some out to let others taste test,have plenty food saver bags in the deep freeze.

 

[kookie]

Looks damn good............

 

[minn.bill]

wow wish it were in my freezer

 

[richtee]

Pretty li'l bacon strip... oh come here please! };[)

 

[bb53chevpro]

WTG, thats awesome.

 

[bkennedy]

Where do you find the slabs of pork bellies that are so lean..Most bought bacon is mostly fat..Where do you find a slab that looks so good and lean? Do they come in different sizes..Pork bellys?

 

[camp_cookie]

Wow. That's a lot of bacon.

 

[desertlites]

thanks all,these bellies came from local mex. meat market-he didn't have on hand so ordered outta Phoenix-Farmer Johns warehouse-I trimmed the main fat cap off them before smokin them,bought 2 pieces 1 was 9lbs( which was this 1) gave me 6.5 lbs. of bacon after smoke.fat went to cracklins and froze some for sausage when needed.The other is 13 lbs. with a smaller fat cap,wheels are spinning on what to do with it.least i know now I made friend that can do good on bellies.they come fresh not frozen which I like also.

 

[bkennedy]

What kind of price range are they charging?

 

[walking dude]

i finally found a place other than a mex grocerie........i can get full sides from a area meat locker bout 30 miles from here..........mostly places charge you whatever market value that day it........round 2 summin lb here in iowa

 

[bigronhuntalot]

Man, That looks Marvelous. Congrats and thanks for posting, now I wanna try it. LOL

 

[navionjim]

Damn! I've made my share of bacon and that has to be the leanest belly I've ever seen! Good Job and points to you!
Jimbo