Calling the Bacon Gods

DaveRichardson

Bacon is something that I'd like to try.  My grandfather raised hogs and he made his own pork-related-EVERYTHING.  I miss that home-made touch.  So here is my plea....

Calling all bacon gods..... what technique do you all use for your curing, smoking, resting, and cutting?

blind99

Ruhlman's recipes are probably the most widely used.  The basic idea is salt/sugar/nitrite for 7 days, then hot smoke, and cut with a nice long slicer.  It's easy, and so darned good.

You can go down a dark rabbit hole from there.  I often do an equilibrium brine/cure so I can completely control the salt level, and I like to cold smoke when it's cold outside. 

Anyhow, google the Ruhlman stuff (or check out his Charcuterie book) and feel free to hit up the forum for details.  lots of folks here make a lot of bacon. @jacksdad has gone nuts with the bacon making he can probably give some guidance.

GrateEggspectations

Great resource.......

http://amazingribs.com/recipes/porknography/making_bacon_from_scratch.html

Chubbs

Use charcuterie recipe and roll with the maple recipe. Cold smoke using AMS. Best thing ever. I have done well over 100lbs and never fails to impress

lkapigian

Bookmarked this thread 

Killit_and_Grillit

Bacon god I am not. Bacon lover I am. 

Prepping appetizer bacon for our South Nashville Egghead Meet and Greet. 

Again, the Charcuterie recipe is solid. I literally SOS'd @bgebrent last night because I couldn't find it in my messages. 

This is one is a Rosemary garlic rendition he sent me. It's next level flavor. 

lkapigian

Killit_and_Grillit said:

Bacon god I am not. Bacon lover I am. 

Prepping appetizer bacon for our South Nashville Egghead Meet and Greet. 

Again, the Charcuterie recipe is solid. I literally SOS'd @bgebrent last night because I couldn't find it in my messages. 

This is one is a Rosemary garlic rendition he sent me. It's next level flavor. 

Mind sharing the recipe and your smoke process 

bgebrent

lkapigian said:

Killit_and_Grillit said:

Bacon god I am not. Bacon lover I am. 

Prepping appetizer bacon for our South Nashville Egghead Meet and Greet. 

Again, the Charcuterie recipe is solid. I literally SOS'd @bgebrent last night because I couldn't find it in my messages. 

This is one is a Rosemary garlic rendition he sent me. It's next level flavor. 

Mind sharing the recipe and your smoke process 

Here's my recipe from the email I sent Adam.  I hope you like it.  The first recipes I found online.  The second is Ruhlman's basic cure.  These are good starting points.  I made up the garlic rosemary recipe and it happened to be a winner.  I hope you like it too.  This bacon is hot smoked but should be great cold smoked too.

Killit_and_Grillit

Hey look ^^^ There it is. Now I'll have an easier time finding it. 

I do roughly 4 lbs (slice a 8-10 lb pork belly in half) and do the recipe above and add rosemary and garlic. Toss in a gallon ziploc and put in a metal container in the fridge. (Put it in a container!!! Unless you want your dogs fighting over raw salty sugar pork juice on your garage floor) Every morning I walk out and flip it. Let it sit a week or so.

Day before I'm ready to smoke I open, rinse, and let sit on a tray for about 24 hours.  Pretty easy.

lkapigian

Not trying to hijack but add a question on your thoughts of hot smoke vs cols smoke Meathead says "Don't Cold Smoke" other say with proper cure its fine--Hot smoked bacon to me I would think is not the same..( my apologies for the brief hijack)