Belly BBB

[shellbellc]

Hubs and I started a winter bacon project in November. We're trying different recipes to come up with the best bacon flavor for us. Our local butcher sells me the bellies for $2.29 per pound. I have to call him by Monday so he saves me two bellies from the Tuesday butchering.

Our first bacon we just did the hi mountain BBB. Rubbed in, cured for 8 days and then cold smoked for 36 hours.
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[lynsey123]

Sweeeeeeet

[Meat Hunter]

MMmmmm, bacon.....
Looks great

[Kingudaroad]

Vey nice job on that bacon.

What kind of setup do you have to maintain a 36 hour cold smoke?

[Richtee]

Decent price on bellies... I have never used the HM cure (Or any commercial one) but lots of folks like it! Looks good Shell!

[shellbellc]

Vey nice job on that bacon.

What kind of setup do you have to maintain a 36 hour cold smoke?

Temps outside were in the 20's! I bout one of the a-maz-n smokers for the cold smoke. We're currently on our 4th bacon cure and once I had to add sterno because I was afraid of the meat freezing!

[shellbellc]

Decent price on bellies... I have never used the HM cure (Or any commercial one) but lots of folks like it! Looks good Shell!

Well I figured it would be a good starting place for testing purposes since so many people seem to use it...we've used different recipes since this first bacon. I did like the flavor of it, but I actually like a sweetness in my bacon.

[ALX]

Hot damn..Err..cold smoked bacon

[Checkered Past]

Very impressive

[doctor phreak]

very nice i need to get back on this bacon gig.......and of course our temps will be back up in the 60 and 70's next week

[Squirrel]

Great looking bacon! Great price too, my butcher was selling them to me for that price then went up to 2.99 then to 3.29. So, no bacon for me for a while. I used HM and was happy with the results. Thanks for sharing the bounty with us!!

[curious aardvark]

That's the leanest belly bacon I think I've seen on the forum

And a fabulous colour on the smoked


That stuff's almost as dark as my treacle cured stuff looks.

Have some bacon

[mulepackin]

Great looking bacon. Keep us posted on your research and results. I'm always looking for the perfect bacon too. For me it has to taste like some I had as a kid

[Bbq Bubba]

Outstanding!

[SMOKE FREAK]

Good to hear from ya again Shell...
Nice lookin pork....gotta try this some day...