Qualified Bacon Success

[tandu]

I bought 2 lbs of pork side, presliced. I cured it for 7 days in salt. Then I smoked it for 4 hours with hickory chips.

It's delicious. It's bacon. Rather fatty, half-way precooked bacon, but bacon.

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Comments

[veleda]

now i want bacon

you are evil.

[eveningsparkle]

THAT IS AMAZING.

Now if only you could make delicious jerky, too. I would totally get in on that.

By the way, state capital-wise, I am now in Richmond rather than Albany. Go figure!

[tandu]

Yeah, I was thinking about coming to visit, but the closest I get to Richmond is Annapolis this trip. I'll be going through Albany June 1, but I'll bet you're not back there yet.

Sigh. Well, one of these days. :)

[quincidence]

,,,,,
bbbbbb - bacon?
salt....
mmmm salt lick...
sounds mind nummingly delicious and like a perfect split pea soup bacon

[wyldemoon]

Sounds like a very successful experiment.

Have you seen Alton Brown's episodes on smokers? He has some very good hardware store-fu that may be helpful for doing it on the cheap.

[anonymous]

wonder whether you might soak that a few minutes in water before frying, leach out some salt - certainly a custom with ham...