Some EQ Cured Duroc Bacon (3 flavors)
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Started these on 7/27 and meant to go 14 days but ended up closer to 21 days using the EQ method. Some of this likely came from my inability to properly label the “Out” date on each package (thanks beers).
Anyways these are Duroc bellies that I did as a plain, maple garlic, and maple chipotle flavor. Am currently smoking them with applewood and plan to take them up to 138-140F or so since I’ll cook them post slicing.
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RON PARRISH Regular Contributors Cast Iron Canning Team Orange Power User Veteran Ohioreplied to Jamieson22 on last edited by
Jamieson22 Looks awsome!
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processhead Power User Regular Contributors Smoker Build Expert Bowl Choppers Nebraska Veteran Team Camo
Looking forward to a sampling report. They look great.
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bocephus Team Orange Power User Canning Masterbuilt Regular Contributors Veteran New Mexico Sous Vide Gardeningreplied to Jamieson22 on last edited by
Jamieson22 Looks good, on my to do list along with many other things. Of course being on this sight I don’t think I will ever get everything done as the list keeps getting longer by the day as I keep seeing and reading about great things I haven’t tried yet.
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Jamieson22 Team Blue PK100 Regular Contributors Power User Illinoisreplied to bocephus on last edited by
bocephus Will say EQ makes it SUPER easy. Just plug belly weight into calc and weigh out cure, sugar and salt. You’ll be surprised at how little it takes. Rub it down and toss in a vac bag for 14 days turning every day or so. Takes maybe 20 minutes. Once done just dry in fridge a day or so and smoke!
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bocephus Team Orange Power User Canning Masterbuilt Regular Contributors Veteran New Mexico Sous Vide Gardeningreplied to Jamieson22 on last edited by
Jamieson22 Thanks, I am definitely going to make some, my wife loves bacon, I like it also but if given the choice I almost always choose sausage.
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Right at 8.5 hours they hit 145F. Gave them a cold water rinse and will let them dry a bit on counter before stashing in firdge a few days to mellow before slicing.
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processhead Power User Regular Contributors Smoker Build Expert Bowl Choppers Nebraska Veteran Team Camo
Looking good. Did I mention that some of us are awaiting the aforementioned sampling?
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Jamieson22 Team Blue PK100 Regular Contributors Power User Illinoisreplied to processhead on last edited by
processhead said in Some EQ Cured Duroc Bacon (3 flavors):
Looking good. Did I mention that some of us are awaiting the aforementioned sampling?
LOL think I saw that mentioned. Will likely slice this weekend and do a sampling. Really curious if the maple syrup added much in the cure.
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cdavis Masterbuilt Canning Kamado Joes Regular Contributors Power User Sous Vide Oklahoma Team Camoreplied to Jamieson22 on last edited by
Jamieson22 they look great. Let us know on flavors
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lkrfletcher Sous Vide Canning PK100 Team Blue Power User Colorado Military Veterans Veteranreplied to Jamieson22 on last edited by
Jamieson22 - I have to try this
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very nice.
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All sliced up and procrastinating the cleaning of my slicer so figure I’d post some pics.
I sliced the Maple Chipotle with the grain as many say they prefer it that way (figured I’d try it). If I had not it seemed a bit wide for my slicer to fit against grain. Had that issue with the Plain one as well as it was maybe 3/4" too wide so got a few odd slices when trying to even it up.
Will cook some up tomorrow when I vac seal/freeze. Threw a few off cuts onto my pellet smoker while making some wings and brats so will try in a bit.
Maple Garlic:
Maple Chipotle:
Plain old Bacon Flavor:
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processhead Power User Regular Contributors Smoker Build Expert Bowl Choppers Nebraska Veteran Team Camo
Hope it tastes as good as it looks.
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bocephus Team Orange Power User Canning Masterbuilt Regular Contributors Veteran New Mexico Sous Vide Gardeningreplied to Jamieson22 on last edited by
Jamieson22 Nice looking bacon, great job.
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YooperDog Team Orange Masterbuilt Big Green Egg Dry Cured Sausage Sous Vide Canning Power Userreplied to Jamieson22 on last edited by
Jamieson22 looks great. You should have enough bacon for about a week or two.
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your slicing looks good
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cdavis Masterbuilt Canning Kamado Joes Regular Contributors Power User Sous Vide Oklahoma Team Camoreplied to Jamieson22 on last edited by
Jamieson22 now that is just beautiful bacon
. Congrats 
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lkrfletcher Sous Vide Canning PK100 Team Blue Power User Colorado Military Veterans Veteranreplied to Jamieson22 on last edited by
Jamieson22 Looks really good to me.
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Jamieson22 Team Blue PK100 Regular Contributors Power User Illinoisreplied to craigrice on last edited by
craigrice said in Some EQ Cured Duroc Bacon (3 flavors):
your slicing looks good
Only thing I can take credit for on that is buying the Globe G12 slicer
