Sweet Smoked Bacon

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This mentation of homemade bacon has a sweetness that goes large with pancakes and waffles. The sweetness is not overpowering and complements different saccharine dishes, but the bacon is besides terrific with specified mainstays arsenic over-easy eggs.

If the pork belly you find is skin-on, you tin portion it disconnected utilizing a crisp fillet knife, oregon inquire your butcher to region it. The optional pinkish curing brackish called for present (not the aforesaid happening arsenic pinkish Himalayan salt) adds color; it is disposable astatine Williams-Sonoma stores and online via Amazon.com.

Before the smoking step, you’ll request to soak a cupful of pome wood chips (preferably) oregon hickory oregon cherry wood chips successful h2o for 1 hour. And you’ll request an instant-read thermometer.

The cure substance tin beryllium refrigerated up to 3 days successful advance. The bacon needs to cure successful the refrigerator for 7 days; the rinsed, dried bacon needs to air-dry successful the refrigerator for 8 to 24 hours. The air-dried bacon tin beryllium refrigerated for up to 1 week oregon frozen for up to 3 months. The cured, smoked bacon needs to beryllium refrigerated for astatine slightest 4 hours and up to 1 week.

From Smoke Signals columnist Jim Shahin.

Ingredients

From Smoke Signals columnist Jim Shahin.

Tested by Andy Sikkenga.

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