Bacon Salty

[Denny O]

bocephus
I’m going to be doing another round of Berkshire hog bacon coming up in the next week or so. A friend has another hog that he told me he was butchering and wished I’d make him some bacon like last time. Well, why not!
Jonathon How may I add Waltons seasonings to aid the flavors in my bacon? Please PM me or another way if you please, tia.

[243savage]

Denny O if they try a brine, I bet they never go back

[Deepwoodsbutcher]

PapaSop you’ve been busy. Looks like your work is paying off though. Amazing

[Jonathon]

PapaSop Nicely done on all that bacon! I have been eating a ton of it recently, might need to go by a belly to make more of my own stuff again. I think I’d use Blue Ribbon Maple Bacon Cure and then rub the outside with either some Bacon Flavored Patty Mix - 6lb or I just had a thought of trying to rub it with the Cordyceps mushroom powder…I could probably get a good idea of how that tastes though if I just sprinkled some of that on a piece. So super umami bacon…that could be good or destroy the flavor…thoughts?

[PapaSop]

Jonathon said in Bacon Salty:

PapaSop Nicely done on all that bacon! I have been eating a ton of it recently, might need to go by a belly to make more of my own stuff again. I think I’d use Blue Ribbon Maple Bacon Cure and then rub the outside with either some Bacon Flavored Patty Mix - 6lb or I just had a thought of trying to rub it with the Cordyceps mushroom powder…I could probably get a good idea of how that tastes though if I just sprinkled some of that on a piece. So super umami bacon…that could be good or destroy the flavor…thoughts?

Wow. Haven’t seen this thread in a while.

Go for it! Experimentation is what we do. Even easier when you have everything at your disposal. I’m not familiar with that mushroom powder though.

Ran out of my homemade bacon last Nov. Been eating the commercial stuff since and I’m not impressed. One was so salty I ended up tossing it. Need belly prices to come down and the weather to warm up a bit before firing up the smoker. Last I looked it was $4.99lb.

[Denny O]

PapaSop Yep, this got dug up from just near a year ago! I think I got into some of that mushroom powder stuff back in the early 70’s!

[Jonathon]

FYI, I am working on a limit or how old the “random” topic section will pull from. Seeing a lot of older posts that have basically been “settled” coming back for a 2nd or 3rd life when they really don’t need to. I don’t want to close topics after a certain period of inactivity but I think it is the random topic feature doing this.

[processhead]

Jonathon said in Bacon Salty:

FYI, I am working on a limit or how old the “random” topic section will pull from. Seeing a lot of older posts that have basically been “settled” coming back for a 2nd or 3rd life when they really don’t need to. I don’t want to close topics after a certain period of inactivity but I think it is the random topic feature doing this.

Maybe create an archive category for topics that have been settled and lock the option to reply to them?
That way the folks that have read the everything else on the site and yearn for more can still go through the old threads and derive value from them.

[Ridley Acres]

Jonathon
Another thing you could do is have a BOLD label at the top in the subject line and/or have a message pop up when people try to reply saying this is an old thread, do you wish to continue? And give the option to start a new thread.

[Denny O]

Jonathon
“Why Watson, I think you got sumtin’ there!”
Excellent thought, quite receptive and I’ll agree with you on this thought.