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  • Thanks to Gunslinger, I made Turkey Bacon

    Follow Gunny's ground meat bacon posts as a guide, I made a ground turkey bacon. First off, thanks Gunny!! Here are some pics

    I used about 2 1/2 lbs dark meat and about 1 1/2 lbs white meat.


    I used TQ for the cure, I also added a small amount of brown sugar and I added Knox plain gelatin as a binder. I added the meat in layers. I put some plastic wrap in a bakin dish then added about half the dark meat


    Then added the layer of white meat


    Then the rest of the dark, I was trying to create the different color layers like when you cook real bacon.


    It cured covered in the fridge from Friday night til Sunday then got smoked at the same time as some Polish sausage I made. I flipped the loaf out onto a pan for easy placement in the smoker


    And a pic in the smoker


    A few hours in..


    A couple hours after that I slid it off the pan, it was plenty firm now but needed to smoke a little longer


    All done


    Sliced the loaf in half to see the layers


    Let it sit in the fridge til the next day then sliced. I hand sliced it so some slices are a little thicker than others. The thin ones got very crispy and tasted almost exactly like bacon. Way better than any store bought turkey bacon I have had.


    Thanks for checking out my pics. And thanks again to Gunny!
    KCBS/CBJ #56408

    "Sticks and stones will break your bones, but words will always teach you." -Shihan

  • #2
    damn that looks good

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    • #3
      Oh man this is so in my future - thanks for the great post - I will be hitting you up for the exact recipe soon
      Scarbelly

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      • #4
        Out of the park Wu...
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        • #5
          ......... Awesome WU!...... Inspiration & Execution

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          • #6
            Nice Job, it looks pretty darn good.

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            • #7
              Absolutely excellent bacon! You get for that one.
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              • #8
                Wu - I'll add my points in with Keith's - that is very cool! great idea on the white/dark meat.

                Awesome all around.

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                • #9
                  Just awesome man. for thinking outside my box.


                  Tom

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                  • #10
                    love the colour idea
                    Excellent job

                    How coarse was the grind ?
                    And what temp did you take it to ?
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                    • #11
                      Looks grat! Please send me recipe if you get a chance Wu. Always liked turkey sausage, but not the bacon. Tried some of the flat steak-um looking ones, just couldnt get past the look and bad texture.
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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by curious aardvark View Post
                        love the colour idea
                        Excellent job

                        How coarse was the grind ?
                        And what temp did you take it to ?
                        I used a coarse grind, mixed the seasonings/cure then ran it back through the grinder. I was using the old manual grinder, it only had to choices and the other was very fine. I took it to about 150 degrees which ended up taking 5 or 6 hours.
                        KCBS/CBJ #56408

                        "Sticks and stones will break your bones, but words will always teach you." -Shihan

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by BrewMasterJosh View Post
                          Looks grat! Please send me recipe if you get a chance Wu. Always liked turkey sausage, but not the bacon. Tried some of the flat steak-um looking ones, just couldnt get past the look and bad texture.
                          The recipe was super simple. I used 1.5 tsp per pound of TenderQuick cure, which already has all the salt you would want and has some sugar. I added about 1/4 cup brown sugar that I distributed into all the meat when mixing and I added the plain gelatin as a binder. And that is it. I wanted this to be a very basic trial recipe so I could figure out how I would want to tweak it next time, but I would have no problem making it this same way again. It was good.
                          KCBS/CBJ #56408

                          "Sticks and stones will break your bones, but words will always teach you." -Shihan

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                          • #14
                            Sweet!! Thanks Wu. Now I have more in the "que". Haha, ill get to it all.
                            GOSM
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                            • #15
                              What more can I say? Wow. Nicely done. Figured turkey or chicken would work fine for Gunny's method..... but striped? Definitely unique. That's points worthy right there.

                              Sounds like it turned out good. A coating of CBP is really good too. Looking forward to your tweaks.
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