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I can't believe it....I smoked my first Bacon and did not take a single photo.
What was I thinking? I have good and bad news. Good news is I didn't kill myself.
I thought that if I was making my own bacon, there is no way I was putting in nitrates
of any kind. So I strictly salted it and added sugar and garlic and mustard for the "cure".
The good news is I sliced some up last night and fried it up and it was good...great.

The bad news is now my face muscles are paralyzed. Any ideas??


Haha, I am kidding. No Botulism. Bad news was I can tell now what I got. It wasn't just
a pork belly sliced into easy to smoke slabs. It was trimmings from a nicely crafted pork
belly. There was precious little pink in these slabs. What threw me is that the chunks
were all very uniform in shape, not obvious trimmings. And maybe I am wrong. And I like
fried out pork fat anyway. But now that I have a new skill, I am going to have to get a
whole belly and try again. I also picked up some brown sugar and kosher salt at the sto
on Sunday, since the table salt I used apprently is not the best thing to use. I have
another pack of this belly trimmins, I am gonna give it another shot this weekend.

OH, I know why I didn't take pictures...It was pourin'-a$$ rainin yesterday. It was all I could
do to keep my fire stoked. Of course, the no pics outside doesn't excuse the inside finished
product pics, but it explains forgetting easier.