Hello all! I just bought an 11 lb, pork belly from costco so i could make bacon for the first time..... i plan on following Meathead recipe for the first time, it calls for 3lb pork belly then gives the curing recipe.
so should i cut my 11 lb belly into to smaller 3lb chunks or smoke the thing whole and adjust the prague powder based on the calculation link??? Thanks any tips or advice is appreciated!
For ease of handling you might want to slice that in half, simply because two 5.5 lb sections will be easier to flip, etc but the formula won't change.
The only reason I recommended against cutting into thirds is that sometimes doing that can leave you with oddly shaped or too short pieces when it comes to slicing them into bacon. But if you can and the individual hunks are still a good size, yeah, do that.
Last edited by rickgregory; February 15, 2020, 08:02 PM.
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