Local Pork Belly

blukat

Smoking a local pork belly that I have been curing about 8 days.  Using Ruhlman's maple recipe.

blukat

Using hickory and peach wood.  Once you start making your own it's hard to go back to store bought!

theyolksonyou

I'm totally out of homemade. Gotta get off the dime and fix that. Love the maple recipe. 

blind99

Homemade bacon? I sense a new project in the works. I assume you need a meat slicer as well?

theyolksonyou

blind99 said:

Homemade bacon? I sense a new project in the works. I assume you need a meat slicer as well?

I don't have a slicer. Par freeze and a sharp knife. I can't slice as thin as I would like, and it's a workout, but it works. 

paqman

Nice! 

pgprescott

Oooh aaaah. Nice looking post here. 

blukat

Slicing now, it was my Christmas present from my family!

hondabbq

I always cols smoke mine. I always mean to try shot smoke but I just never do. 
Looks mighty fine. 

NPHuskerFL

Buddy just had one of his pigs processed. Weighed 613# and yielded 398# meat. Trying to get some belly for charcuterie and bacon, brats, sausage, picnic, butt and ham. 

blukat

blukat

Made quite a bit, set for awhile now.

pgprescott

Sweet post! Really enjoyed it. 

blukat

Had to fry some up to test, definitely recommend making your own, easy process and man is it good!  I usually bake it and right before it's finished I put some maple syrup on it.it and 

NPHuskerFL

Outstanding man!  Gotta love vac saving it for freshness. 

Spydermunky

This is definitely going onto my recipe list!

blukat

Kinda bummed though, gave 5 packs away to neighbors.

blukat

This was the first using my slicer, it's not too hard to use a knife instead, but the uniform cut of the slicer was nice.  I also smoke my own hams and turkey breast and vac. seal for lunch meat.

NPHuskerFL

blukat said:

Kinda bummed though, gave 5 packs away to neighbors.

blukat

Hilarious NPHuskerFL