Smoked Bacon II

[Wizard]

I've tried cooking bacon with various woods since the initial bacon thread. All the fruit woods such as apple, pear, cherry and peach taste similar though the bacon coloring is different for each wood. All tasted good but a combination of apple/cherry was better than any single fruit wood. Mesquite didn't impress me as far as bacon and neither did hickory.
The wood that tasted and smelled the best in my opinion was Pecan. A short 15 minute smoking gave a good taste to the bacon. I decided to do a 3 hour smoke with Pecan. AMAZING! The taste was great, you could smell it from across the room and the color was so dark brown it  could be mistaken for black.
Pecan bacon can be glazed with maple syrup and cooked in the oven as a treat.

[flowerjohn]

I've tried cooking bacon with various woods since the initial bacon thread. All the fruit woods such as apple, pear, cherry and peach taste similar though the bacon coloring is different for each wood. All tasted good but a combination of apple/cherry was better than any single fruit wood. Mesquite didn't impress me as far as bacon and neither did hickory.
The wood that tasted and smelled the best in my opinion was Pecan. A short 15 minute smoking gave a good taste to the bacon. I decided to do a 3 hour smoke with Pecan. AMAZING! The taste was great, you could smell it from across the room and the color was so dark brown it  could be mistaken for black.
Pecan bacon can be glazed with maple syrup and cooked in the oven as a treat.

Wiz were you cooking the whole side in one piece? Just wondering because that whole smoking bacon activity is better than a national league ballgame !


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[Wizard]

It is sliced into 1/4 inch slices and draped over a bacon rack. The rack holds about 2 pounds of bacon. The Pecan smoked bacon with heirloom Cherokee Purple tomatoes makes a heck of a BLT.

[Oldfart9999]

Wish I could cold smoke. We're going to try smoking pork belly(bacon) this summer.
Rodney

[flowerjohn]

It is sliced into 1/4 inch slices and draped over a bacon rack. The rack holds about 2 pounds of bacon. The Pecan smoked bacon with heirloom Cherokee Purple tomatoes makes a heck of a BLT.

I can smell all that goodness from here!


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[Wizard]

Rodney, make sure you don't  over cook pork belly. If you cook out the fat, you loose the great taste and the meat can become shoe leather.

[Oldfart9999]

Rodney, make sure you don't  over cook pork belly. If you cook out the fat, you loose the great taste and the meat can become shoe leather.

Thanks Wizard!
Rodney