Recipe of Ultimate Homemade Bacon

Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, homemade bacon. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Homemade Bacon is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Homemade Bacon is something that I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have homemade bacon using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Homemade Bacon:

1. Prepare Raw Pork Belly
2. Make ready Brine
3. Take Water
4. Prepare BBQ Seasoning
5. Take Morton's Curing Salt
6. Take Brown Sugar
7. Prepare Cracked Peppercorns
8. Prepare Apple Juice
9. Get Maple Syrup

Steps to make Homemade Bacon:

1. Start by bringing the water to a boil. Then add the curing salt, brown sugar, black peppercorns & BBQ seasoning to the water for a few minutes while maintaining the boil.
2. Add the apple juice & maple syrup in with the rest of the ingredients & keep on the boil for a few minutes longer.
3. After the brine is done cooking make sure to add ice to allow it to cool. The brine must be completely cooled or you will boil the meat in the brine which takes flavor out of the meat & affects the outcome of the bacon.
4. Place the belly in the brine and add it to the fridge for 7-14 days. Take out of the brine & pat it dry then let sit in the fridge for 4-10 hours.
5. Then I place the bacon into my smoker at 125 for 1 1/2 hours. This step is key because without adding smoke to the meat it's not considered bacon. The traditionally used woods are hickory & apple wood.

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