Cliff Bartlett
R.I.P. 5/17/2021
Had some weirdness occur when curing my last pork belly. Using Bob's recipe I did the prep and the cure over this past week. After a day or so, I noticed I couldn't see much moisture in the bag collecting from the curing piece of meat. This was the second piece of the original belly which I had cut into thirds. The first piece that I made last month was very wet after a couple of days and came out great. When I opened this current piece after the 7th day, the bag was dry as a bone and the TQ I had rubbed into the belly had almost a dust like texture on the surface of the meat at the end of cure. Something is not right and I'm hesitant on whether to proceed with this or not. Any thoughts?