Making Bacon at Home [Homemade Bacon Recipe] - BarbecueBible.com

barbecuebible.com
Your recipes
0
Making Bacon at Home [Homemade Bacon Recipe] - BarbecueBible.com

Ingredients

Remove All · Remove Spices · Remove Staples

Export 1 ingredients for grocery delivery

Instructions

Helping creators monetize
Show ad-free recipes at the top of any site

Step 1: Mix the salt, sugar, and pink salt, if using, together in a large bowl, making sure to break up the brown sugar so it has no clumps. Do this quickly before the salt starts to make the brown sugar hard.ShareTweetPin12 Shares Step 2: Next, put the pork belly in a large nonreactive food-safe container and coat it thoroughly on all sides with the sugar-and-salt cure. Do one coat on all sides, shake off the excess, and let the belly sit for 5 minutes. Then reapply the cure and either wrap the belly tightly in plastic wrap or cover the container with plastic wrap. ShareTweetPin12 Shares Step 3: Place the container on the bottom shelf of your fridge. This next part is important: you must flip the bacon once a day for the next 7 days. This is somewhat less important if you have tightly wrapped the belly in plastic wrap, but it must be done every day if you didn’t—failing to do so will lead to lopsidedly cured bacon. ShareTweetPin12 Shares Step 4: After 7 days, rinse the belly lightly under cold water and pat it dry with paper towels. Place it in a smoker, meat side down, and set the smoker for 170°F, without any wood, chips, or other stuff that causes smoke. (If you have an old-school log-fed smoker, just open the flue all the way to allow the smoke to get out of the smoking chamber.) Run the smoker for about 1 hour, until the exterior of the meat has a dry, somewhat shiny look that says, “Hey, I’m ready to smoke!” This shiny exterior is called the pellicle. Most anything you smoke will not take on that beautiful mahogany color from the smoke until the moisture in the outer layer of the meat has evaporated and the proteins on the surface are slightly denatured, or cooked. As this happens, the pellicle will form and the meat will become “sticky,” in a molecular sense, enabling the smoke to bond with the pellicle. Failure to achieve a pellicle before you hit it with the smoke will result in a sooty, gray-brown color. Your bacon might taste OK, but it will look like hell.ShareTweetPin12 Shares Step 5: Now add chips, wood—you know, smoke—to the smoker and lower the temperature to 160°F. If you’re trying to flex bold flavors all over the place, feel free to use the magnum-strength smoking woods like hickory, mesquite, or oak, but add them a little later in the process (after 4 hours or so) to prevent the bacon from getting bitter. ShareTweetPin12 Shares Step 6: Smoke the belly for 5 to 6 hours, making sure to give it a turn every hour. The bacon is done when it is firm, not rubbery, with an internal temperature of 155°F. Immediately rinse the belly under hot water to remove any rendered fat, which would make it look less pretty when chilled, and place it in an ice-water bath for 15 minutes.ShareTweetPin12 Shares Step 7: Drain the belly, pat it dry, and wrap it in heavy, breathable paper, such as a large grocery bag. Refrigerate it until it’s time to slice and fry. If you’re not going to eat all of it over the course of the next 2 weeks, you can wrap chunks of it in wax-lined butcher paper (you can get this from your butcher when you buy the belly) and freeze it for up to a year.ShareTweetPin12 Shares

Top similar recipes

Making Paneer At Home-image
trending185 views

Making Paneer At Home

recipepocket.com

10 minutes

Lentilha com bacon-image
trending143 views

Lentilha com bacon

receiteria.com.br

4.0

(5)

20 minutes

You Can Make Bacon At Home!-image
trending3 views

You Can Make Bacon At Home!

nwedible.com

30 Best Bacon Recipes to Make at Home-image
trending149 views

30 Best Bacon Recipes to Make at Ho...

insanelygoodrecipes.com

5.0

(1)

Homemade Bacon-image
trending254 views

Homemade Bacon

foodnetwork.com

4.5

(27)

3 hours

Homemade Bacon-image
trending250 views

Homemade Bacon

garlicandzest.com

4.1

(19)

240 minutes

Make Bacon at Home and Save Money at the Grocery Store-image
trending187 views

Make Bacon at Home and Save Money a...

thespruceeats.com

Gyros - an Authentic Recipe for Making Them at Home-image
trending198 views

Gyros - an Authentic Recipe for Mak...

food.com

5.0

(81)

1 hours

homemade paneer recipe - 2 ways | make paneer at home | making paneer cheese-image
trending329 views

homemade paneer recipe - 2 ways | m...

hebbarskitchen.com

5.0

(282)

10 minutes

homemade paneer recipe - 2 ways | make paneer at home | making paneer cheese-image
trending35 views

homemade paneer recipe - 2 ways | m...

hebbarskitchen.com

Tomato Bacon Mac & Cheese Meal Idea | Panera at Home-image
trending206 views

Tomato Bacon Mac & Cheese Meal Idea...

paneraathome.com

25

Homemade Bacon Spaetzle-image
trending237 views

Homemade Bacon Spaetzle

delish.com

15 minutes

Homemade Pepper Bacon-image
trending259 views

Homemade Pepper Bacon

meatwave.com

2 hours, 30 minutes

Homemade Bacon Bits-image
trending157 views

Homemade Bacon Bits

easyfamilyrecipes.com

25 minutes

Homemade Smoked Bacon-image
trending267 views

Homemade Smoked Bacon

heygrillhey.com

5.0

(4)

360 minutes

Homemade Bacon Bits-image
trending241 views

Homemade Bacon Bits

portandfin.com

4.5

Sopapillas at Home-image
trending235 views

Sopapillas at Home

mexicoinmykitchen.com

5.0

(10)

Making BACON from a Daikon Radish – The best Veggie Bacon!-image
trending617 views

Making BACON from a Daikon Radish –...

saucestache.com

4

Garlic Pepper Home Made Bacon Cure-image
trending129 views

Garlic Pepper Home Made Bacon Cure

thaiartisanfoods.com