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Let's Make Bacon! (part 1)

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kainzero
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States5211 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-05-30 08:10:29
May 30 2010 08:09 GMT
#1
Everyone should know about bacon. It's one of the quintessential fatty foods that's managing to make its way into almost every other food. Want to make your food more delicious? Wrap it in bacon! We have bacon-wrapped hot dogs, bacon bits on maple glazed donuts, even bacon chocolate bars. The venerable Double Down sandwich from KFC even features a piece of bacon in it.

While we're all adding bacon to whatever we can get our hands on... have you ever thought about improving the bacon you eat and upgrading from store-bought to homemade? Store-bought bacon isn't exactly the best quality. They inject water in it to double the size and to get more money, since it's sold by weight. Great economically, but slightly confusing when you cook your bacon and come out with half of the original size. The smoked flavor they use isn't really smoke but that fake liquid smoke stuff that gives it an artifical taste.

When you make your own bacon, you won't have these problems. In fact, if you're creative, you can give it an extra bit of punch. You can add different flavors during the curing process, or you can use different woods to smoke. You can source your own pig, so if you're rich enough to buy one of those acorn-fed pigs off the Iberian peninsula (at least $10,000+), hey, you can make some phenomenal bacon.

Just to clarify, we're talking about American bacon. Canadian bacon is virtually the same, only that they use pork loin instead of pork belly, which is much leaner. We're fat Americans so we need our pork belly.

Making bacon is a 3-step process: Curing, smoking, and cooking. We're only gonna cover the first step today.

I don't know what exactly curing is, but what I do know is that it dries it out meat and preserves it. I bought a book on curing but I just use the recipes instead of learning the science.

First, buy a 3-5 lb. pork belly and trim it so that it's nice and square. Unfortunately, I've never done this. I live next to a Korean market, and they have these already trimmed and ready to go, presumably for samgyeopsal. I'm not Korean, but I do buy this for bacon-making purposes. If I were environmentally conscious I would look for some heirloom pig or something and order it from a farm.

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You're gonna wanna rinse it and dry it with paper towels.

Next, you need to make the dry cure. The dry cure is 1 part pink salt, 4 parts sugar, 6 parts kosher salt.

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What is pink salt? It's salt that has sodium nitrite, which protects you from botulism. It is unfortunately linked to cancer, but as long as you don't eat pink salt products all the time, you should be fine. It's pink so that you don't get confused and accidentally use it as regular salt. You can find it online or purchase it at specialty food stores. You want to make enough to coat your pork belly, I usually use 1/4 cup.

For my bacon, I like adding brown sugar, and I put in half a cup. Pork and sugar go well together.

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Put the cure in a large plastic ziploc bag, then add the pork belly. Seal the bag and shake it up, so that you can coat it with the cure. Next, you want to open the bag on one side and let out all the air before sealing it again. Less air means that there is more pork belly in contact with the cure.

When you're done, put it in the refrigerator. You're gonna flip it over every day for a week to redistribute the cure. You should see some liquid come out, and when you flip it over you let the cure work itself again.

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And that's the end of part 1!

*****
uglymoose89
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States671 Posts
May 30 2010 08:13 GMT
#2
looks delicious!
Azerbaijan
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States660 Posts
May 30 2010 08:14 GMT
#3
5/5 eagerly awaiting parts 2 and 3!
404.Delirium
Profile Joined May 2008
United States1190 Posts
May 30 2010 08:40 GMT
#4
That looks so tasty. :x

I'm excited to see how the rest of this turns out!
seriously next disrespectful comment in this blog is ip ban. Be happy or get the hell out. // SC2 is like playing with neutral-colored Play-Doh while BW is like colorful Legos.
fujifilms
Profile Joined September 2007
United States2 Posts
May 30 2010 09:12 GMT
#5
This'll be great for living in my apartment! I eagerly wait for part 2 and 3!
SC2Phoenix
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Canada2814 Posts
May 30 2010 11:24 GMT
#6
Lol oh god this blog if 5/5 Easy awaiting later parts
Who the fuck has a family of fucking trees? This song is so god damn stupid. Fuck you song, fuck you and your stupid trees. -itmeJP
vlaric
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States412 Posts
June 16 2010 06:29 GMT
#7
My bacon has been in the fridge for too long man.

WHERE'S PART TWO?!
Wannabe zerg player
InTheFade
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States1721 Posts
June 16 2010 06:32 GMT
#8
Mouth watering... please continue
... Knowmsayin'?
Radical
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
United States481 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-16 06:40:42
June 16 2010 06:39 GMT
#9
i'm drunk please delete, sorry
numLoCK
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Canada1416 Posts
June 16 2010 06:51 GMT
#10
Ohhh making bacon.
That is so cool and so delicious.
This part 1 is such a tease, I need more ^.^
kainzero
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States5211 Posts
June 16 2010 19:06 GMT
#11
On June 16 2010 15:29 vlaric wrote:
My bacon has been in the fridge for too long man.

WHERE'S PART TWO?!

whoops, i got lazy

i already finished, smoked, and cooked mine, but i haven't posted yet. =)
JSH
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States4109 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-16 19:16:38
June 16 2010 19:15 GMT
#12
Boes needs to read this

add in his alarm clock bacon cooker :D

Perfect combo

It is unfortunately linked to cancer, but as long as you don't eat pink salt products all the time, you should be fine.


who cares? Its BACON
"It's called a miracle because it doesn't happen" - Just like my chances of reaching C- on ICCUP
I_Love_Bacon
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States5765 Posts
June 16 2010 19:34 GMT
#13
I approve of this blog. 5 stars; would read again.
" i havent been playin sc2 but i woke up w/ a boner and i really had to pee... and my crisis management and micro was really something to behold. it inspired me to play some games today" -Liquid'Tyler
arb
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Noobville17921 Posts
June 16 2010 20:36 GMT
#14
MAKIN' BACON

5/5
Artillery spawned from the forges of Hell
Myrkskog
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Canada481 Posts
June 16 2010 21:17 GMT
#15
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