Thread: here ya go maj! and any other bacon freak

14 oz. for $20, a bit over my price range.

Originally Posted by canebreaker

14 oz. for $20, a bit over my price range.

Nobody can afford it except rducks.....just saying

Originally Posted by "G"

Nobody can afford it except rducks.....just saying

He could but he would be trying to buy the whole hog for 14.00.

They got some neat stuff.

I've had Bacon Chocolate, but Gummy Bacon,........Really?

I've been pondering making my own Bacon. That and smoked sausage.

Originally Posted by DonDon

I've been pondering making my own Bacon. That and smoked sausage.

I use to help make sausage when I was a kid. I got to crank the grinder. We didn't have a tube to make links.
Dad worked at Evergood packing house in Memphis. We spent some summer in West Point when he worked at Bryan Foods. I watched how bacon was produced. A large wood barrel with 2 wheel barrow of salt and water. Bacon slabs were loaded into the barrels. A piece of wood to cover them and a heavy block to weight them down, left sit for 24 hours.

I've seen several recipies while watching cooking shows and some will cure it in the salt with other spices for several days, just got to figure out which way I wanna do it. If I can find whole pork bellies anywhere. I've never seen them at grocery stores. May have to go to Country pleasins meat plant and get one. I go right near it twice a week when I go teach my classes in Florence