RollingAcres
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Despite the warning I still clicked on the link! OMG 
!!!! They look amazing and I wish I have smell-o-puter!
!!!! They look amazing and I wish I have smell-o-puter!
LAZY H FARM N/C FL. THREAD
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Bruce
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I am NOT going to click on that button, I'M NOT!![SPOILERO NOT CLICK THIS IF YOU'RE HUNGRY!] This is a modified Brink man water pot slow smoker. Double Decker with twice the capacity of the standard model. Wet cured several Hams and Bacon slabs for 12 days. Thursday was the smoke-a-thon. I bet you could smell it a mile away. Blackjack Oak & Hickory wood.
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BACON!Just under 16 hours of smoking at a low temp. Got to bed around 3 am. Our refrigerator reeks. You can smell the refrigerator with the doors closed. I wonder what is for supper tonight? Maybe McDonald's?
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HAM!
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ETA: apparently some stuff comes through when you quote, not the pictures though. I'm NOT going to look, I'm NOT. Besides, I'd probably get a migraine if I do since you use nitrate salt.
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Farmer Connie
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1/8 teaspoon per lb. in boiled water then cooled. No other way to create real bacon. We have used regular salt and sugar but it tastes like pork, not bacon. The Ham will be grey without it as well and taste like a big fatty pork chop instead of ham.
Used in a precise moderation. We smoked a ton of meat yesterday. Each cure was prepared Taylor made for each hunk of meat by the weight. Not one big batch all at once.
Low levels, so take an aspirin and check it out!
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Farmer Connie
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Farmer Connie
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it looks like you were clicking on my post while I was editing the BB code. I see the green emoji in the quote. That's what I was editing out. I must of inserted it by accident but I removed it to fix the code. It's working now. Bruce, do you buy store bought bacon or ham?
Bruce
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Only "uncured" therefore nitrate free. Migraines are not fun. The bacon brand I like best is "North Country Smokehouse Fruitwood smoked". Contents: pork, water, salt, Turbinado sugar, natural ingredients (whatever that is - spices of some sort), maple syrup. Not hard to find a package with a good lean to fat ratio, not true of some others. "Uncured" often contains celery salt which does have natural nitrates but I guess natural doesn't do me in like "man made".
The ham I buy is Boar's Head Applewood uncured. I buy McKenzie bagged breakfast sausage.
The nitrates are totally unnecessary.
Wehner Homestead
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Following along! I’m going to have to try curing my own bacon sometime...
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Farmer Connie
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I was reading something about this actually today.
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Farmer Connie
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Awesome! Experiment. Be simple or be bold.
Bacon wrapped country style ribs. First seared the ribs, then wrapped the hand cut bacon last.
No leftovers for lunch today..
Wehner Homestead
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