HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN BACON

Pork, Recipes

Ingredients

  • 1 pork belly, skin removed
  • Salt
  • Pink salt (curing salt) (This is a special salt that you get from your local butcher
  • Sugar

Method

  1. First weigh your pork belly.
  2. Use your brain and calculator and add 2.5% of the weight of the pork belly in salt.
  3. Add 1% of the weight of the pork belly in sugar.
  4. Add 0.25% of the weight of the pork in pink salt (curing salt)
  5. Mix it all together, rub the pork belly all over with the salt mixture and place in a ziplock bag or airtight container.
  6. Let this pork belly rest in the fridge for 4 days. You can turn it a few times in these few days if you want.
  7. After 4 days, remove the pork belly from the bag and place into your smoker for about 2 hours at 80degrees.
  8. After smoking the belly, use your sharpest knife and cut the belly into strips and braai over a hot fire until cooked and crispy

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