Nick Burns
New member
My first post so bare with me. I love bacon. I found the recipe on this site and it worked!! Better than the post even!
First I called around for porkbelly. The local hot butcher had it for $3.60 a pound. I went to the Asian market and it was $1.99 a pound!
I bought two 4 pound boneless slabs. I also picked up a 5 pound pork butt. What the hell it was crazy cheap and you can't do a butt bad.
I purchased the buckboard bacon cure online for $7. I also got jerky cure. I will try that soon as well. It taked 10 days for the cure to do it's thing so I rubbed the cure on the meat on Thursday. I had the meat in my girlfriends fridge and had her turn the meat on Monday. That following Sat would be smokeing time!
Fire up the smoker. I only used about 15 coals and one large soaked in water Mesquite wood chunk. It lasted the entire 4 hour cook at 200 degrees. Don't worry the smoker looks closer to the fence than it really is.
http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd90/madmakr/DSC09762Small.jpg
Clean the grates and foil the pan. I will be getting the clay pot for my next smoke.
http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd90/madmakr/DSC09763Small.jpg
The butts are on the bottom with a chicken. On top are the porkbellys and scraps. The cooked scraps I used in my lentil soup and bacon fried rice! NICE!!
http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd90/madmakr/DSC09766Small.jpg
A few hours in...
http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd90/madmakr/DSC09767Small.jpg
She done! temp inside was 140-142.
http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd90/madmakr/DSC09768Small.jpg
Pork butt looked like it came from a very expensive deli. It was awesome.
http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd90/madmakr/DSC09769Small.jpg
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First I called around for porkbelly. The local hot butcher had it for $3.60 a pound. I went to the Asian market and it was $1.99 a pound!
I bought two 4 pound boneless slabs. I also picked up a 5 pound pork butt. What the hell it was crazy cheap and you can't do a butt bad.
I purchased the buckboard bacon cure online for $7. I also got jerky cure. I will try that soon as well. It taked 10 days for the cure to do it's thing so I rubbed the cure on the meat on Thursday. I had the meat in my girlfriends fridge and had her turn the meat on Monday. That following Sat would be smokeing time!
Fire up the smoker. I only used about 15 coals and one large soaked in water Mesquite wood chunk. It lasted the entire 4 hour cook at 200 degrees. Don't worry the smoker looks closer to the fence than it really is.
http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd90/madmakr/DSC09762Small.jpg
Clean the grates and foil the pan. I will be getting the clay pot for my next smoke.
http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd90/madmakr/DSC09763Small.jpg
The butts are on the bottom with a chicken. On top are the porkbellys and scraps. The cooked scraps I used in my lentil soup and bacon fried rice! NICE!!
http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd90/madmakr/DSC09766Small.jpg
A few hours in...
http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd90/madmakr/DSC09767Small.jpg
She done! temp inside was 140-142.
http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd90/madmakr/DSC09768Small.jpg
Pork butt looked like it came from a very expensive deli. It was awesome.
http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd90/madmakr/DSC09769Small.jpg
Note from Moderator: Changed multiple inline photo to links due to number of images and long download times for dialup users. Please do not change links back to inline photos. See "Posting Photos" link on BB homepage for guidelines. Thanks!