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Buckboard Bacon!!! #6939234
07/22/20 10:37 PM
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NE Wildlife Offline OP
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Made plenty of bacon before but never made it with
Pork butt. Boy is it a game changer. I’m going to be temped to
Buy pork butts every time I see them at 99cents a pound now.

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Re: Buckboard Bacon!!! [Re: NE Wildlife] #6939236
07/22/20 10:39 PM
07/22/20 10:39 PM
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Custer SD
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Man that looks delicious!!!

Re: Buckboard Bacon!!! [Re: NE Wildlife] #6939306
07/23/20 12:00 AM
07/23/20 12:00 AM
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Nebraska, Dawson County
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NE Wildlife, I'd eat that. grin

Had some at the Nebraska Fur Harvesters convention when it was in Crete, 7 or 8 years ago. Big ol kid named Dallas, from Oklahoma was there with his family, They invited me to breakfast but i respectfully declined. I did however try a piece of the "Arkansas Bacon" they had left over. MAN O MAN, was it ever GOOD. Said they made it at a meat shop he worked at.

Tried looking it up but could never find any reference to 'Arkansas Bacon', but found 'Cottage Bacon. made with pork butts. Names must be a regional thing. laugh


Charlie


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Re: Buckboard Bacon!!! [Re: chas3457] #6939687
07/23/20 11:45 AM
07/23/20 11:45 AM
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Originally Posted by chas3457
NE Wildlife, I'd eat that. grin

Had some at the Nebraska Fur Harvesters convention when it was in Crete, 7 or 8 years ago. Big ol kid named Dallas, from Oklahoma was there with his family, They invited me to breakfast but i respectfully declined. I did however try a piece of the "Arkansas Bacon" they had left over. MAN O MAN, was it ever GOOD. Said they made it at a meat shop he worked at.

Tried looking it up but could never find any reference to 'Arkansas Bacon', but found 'Cottage Bacon. made with pork butts. Names must be a regional thing. laugh


Charlie



You declined a great meal, Dallas has won several awards for his sausages and other meat products....The Man can cook

Re: Buckboard Bacon!!! [Re: NE Wildlife] #6939784
07/23/20 01:17 PM
07/23/20 01:17 PM
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Originally Posted by NE Wildlife
Made plenty of bacon before but never made it with
Pork butt. Boy is it a game changer. I’m going to be temped to
Buy pork butts every time I see them at 99cents a pound now.




Please share how to made this


Off in my own world

Fish on !!!!!!!



47 years in this game of trapping
Re: Buckboard Bacon!!! [Re: NE Wildlife] #6939801
07/23/20 01:35 PM
07/23/20 01:35 PM
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Kansas
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Id like to know how it’s made also


Everything the left touches it destroys
Re: Buckboard Bacon!!! [Re: NE Wildlife] #6939969
07/23/20 04:00 PM
07/23/20 04:00 PM
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I am watching also. Got my pen and paper all ready.


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.... but what do I know, I'm just a dumb farmer.~My Dad
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Re: Buckboard Bacon!!! [Re: NE Wildlife] #6939970
07/23/20 04:01 PM
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St. Louis Co, Mo
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Gotta cure it.


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Re: Buckboard Bacon!!! [Re: NE Wildlife] #6940073
07/23/20 05:54 PM
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Wisconsin
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Cure it does it have Covid? laugh

Re: Buckboard Bacon!!! [Re: NE Wildlife] #6940090
07/23/20 06:11 PM
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West Central Mn
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only bacon I make now. Bellys are $5 a pound and butts are less than a Dollar,

.Same process as using belly's..

Re: Buckboard Bacon!!! [Re: NE Wildlife] #6940852
07/24/20 10:53 AM
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Anyone care to share the process for those of us that have never made baccon before?


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.... but what do I know, I'm just a dumb farmer.~My Dad
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Re: Buckboard Bacon!!! [Re: NE Wildlife] #6940874
07/24/20 11:08 AM
07/24/20 11:08 AM
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Wellington,Ohio
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I'll bring this to the top. Always interested in a new bacon technique

Re: Buckboard Bacon!!! [Re: NE Wildlife] #6940920
07/24/20 11:36 AM
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Llano, Texas, USA
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Llano, Texas, USA
I want to do this!

Re: Buckboard Bacon!!! [Re: NE Wildlife] #6941437
07/24/20 06:09 PM
07/24/20 06:09 PM
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MN, USA
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The process is simple to make "bacon". The reason pork belly was used as it was a fatty cut of meat. The more lean, the drier the bacon will be. I have used deer belly meat and liked it, so that opens up the possibilities for making bacon. This is the wet cure method.


5 pounds pork
1 gallon of water
1 cup canning salt (non iodized)
1 cup White sugar
1 cup Brown sugar
1 TBS Insta-Cure #1 (This is sodium nitrite. You can usually find it in the canning section with salt in the grocery.)

Instructions

I use a 2 gallon zip lock bag Mix the above ingredients a large food-safe container, combine 1 gallon of water, 1 cup canning salt, 1 cup of white sugar, 1 cup of brown sugar, and 1 Tablespoon of Insta-Cure #1, until dissolved.
I put the meat into the bag and then in the sink, add the brine. Zip it shut, put it into a plastic container in case it leaks, and let it cure for two weeks. I turn mine daily.
Drop in the pork belly and make sure it stays submerged.
After 14 days remove the meat, rinse cure and pat dry.
Leave uncovered in the refrigerator overnight to dry.
Smoke for 4 hours at temperatures under 165 degrees F. You are not cooking the meat, but smoke curing it. This is a cold smoke and if you get too hot the fat will melt away. The experts say that 150 degree internal temperature is what you want.

You can rub this with pepper too when smoking it. It just depends on the taste. I like traditional, and that means hickory smoke or apple wood.

This is the same corning which is used in meats in pickling it.

Re: Buckboard Bacon!!! [Re: NE Wildlife] #6941451
07/24/20 06:32 PM
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Did it for years with pork shoulder European bacon learned for my grandfather but we are not going to see .99 pork for awhile

Re: Buckboard Bacon!!! [Re: NE Wildlife] #6944053
07/27/20 02:55 AM
07/27/20 02:55 AM
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If you've never made Canadian bacon with venison loin instead of pork loin you don't know what you're missing.

Re: Buckboard Bacon!!! [Re: star flakes] #6944056
07/27/20 04:37 AM
07/27/20 04:37 AM
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Originally Posted by star flakes
The process is simple to make "bacon". The reason pork belly was used as it was a fatty cut of meat. The more lean, the drier the bacon will be. I have used deer belly meat and liked it, so that opens up the possibilities for making bacon. This is the wet cure method.


5 pounds pork
1 gallon of water
1 cup canning salt (non iodized)
1 cup White sugar
1 cup Brown sugar
1 TBS Insta-Cure #1 (This is sodium nitrite. You can usually find it in the canning section with salt in the grocery.)

Instructions

I use a 2 gallon zip lock bag Mix the above ingredients a large food-safe container, combine 1 gallon of water, 1 cup canning salt, 1 cup of white sugar, 1 cup of brown sugar, and 1 Tablespoon of Insta-Cure #1, until dissolved.
I put the meat into the bag and then in the sink, add the brine. Zip it shut, put it into a plastic container in case it leaks, and let it cure for two weeks. I turn mine daily.
Drop in the pork belly and make sure it stays submerged.
After 14 days remove the meat, rinse cure and pat dry.
Leave uncovered in the refrigerator overnight to dry.
Smoke for 4 hours at temperatures under 165 degrees F. You are not cooking the meat, but smoke curing it. This is a cold smoke and if you get too hot the fat will melt away. The experts say that 150 degree internal temperature is what you want.

You can rub this with pepper too when smoking it. It just depends on the taste. I like traditional, and that means hickory smoke or apple wood.

This is the same corning which is used in meats in pickling it.

A gallon of brine and 5lbs all stuffed into a 2 gallon bag?

Re: Buckboard Bacon!!! [Re: NE Wildlife] #6944086
07/27/20 06:38 AM
07/27/20 06:38 AM
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You can buy mortons tender quick. Four parts water to one part mortons. Any wood works for smoking. Some are better than others. Mulberry hackberry pecan are all real good along with the apple and hickory that were mentioned. Mesquite oak walnut and wood like that have a stronger taste.

You can also do a dry rub. A dry rub works best on a chunk of meat that hasn't been sliced yet. It stays in a slab for most people till you want to cook some. Then slices are cut off with a butcher knife. Lot of info online how to do a dry rub. Biggest thing is a wooden rack so the meat can drain properly.

When you find that pork butt on sale for a buck thirty or whatever you can make pork steak and sausage with it also. Part of it will be boneless and part will have the shoulder blade. If you have a meat band saw you cut the whole thing into pork steaks and about half will be bone in. I like to cut steaks in the boneless side with a knife. Package them up and freeze. Trim all the meat from the bone on the bone-in side and grinds it up to make sausage. The mountain man breakfast sausage spice sold at cabela's and bass pro is real good.

You will end up with bacon sausage and pork steak for less than two bucks a pound.

You can also cure and smoke a "picnic" ham. Ham made with a front shoulder stead of a butt cheek.

Pork butt is actually the front shoulder

Friend of mine told me about these guys https://aclegg.com/products/sausage-seasonings/
You can get a lot of their stuff on amazon by typing in a.c. leg seasoning


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Re: Buckboard Bacon!!! [Re: NE Wildlife] #6944090
07/27/20 06:57 AM
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Thanks star flakes and Danny


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