Buckboard bacon, to drain or not

[Guest]

peoples,

When you put rub on butts for bacon. Do you drain off the brine or not. Why do you do it that way.

Charlie /infopop/emoticons/icon_confused.gif

 

[Cy Robinson]

Charlie,

I have only made two pork butts into BBBacon. One I cured for 7 days and the other for 10 days and I did not drain either one. I looked at them every other day or so and turned each at it's own half time. There never did seem to be enough liquid in the bags to cause a problem. Besides, I hate to throw away moisture. Both of them turned into really good bacon but I prefer the 10 day batch because it seems to have a little more bacon taste.

Guess it comes down to, "do you want to mess around draining?" /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

 

[Susan Z]

I didn't drain mine either time I did mine, and both batches were lovely.