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It might come out a bit salty. Kind of depends on your taste. After you take it out of the cure and rinse it slice off a small piece and fry it up. If it is too salty you can soak it in some clean water to draw out some of the salt.
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first time bacon making
Good afternoon, and Friday makes it better! I'm trying out the homemade bacon recipe for the first time. I have Prague #1 and all of the other ingredients listed for the basic recipe. The only thing I didn't have was a 3 lb. piece of belly. What I could find met spec at 1.5 inches thick and 10 inches across the grain but it weighs 1.88lbs. I converted that weight into grams and used the cure calculator on the site which gave me the amount of Prague needed and duration of cure. But I kept the water, salt, sugar, pepper, the same, and put it all in a 1 gallon bag. My question is will it come out too, salty, sugary, etc? Should I have reduced the other ingredients to a little over 1/2 of the 3lb. recipe? Hopefully you can tell me before it comes out of the fridge in 3 days. Thanks!Last edited by wmsjensen; January 22, 2021, 03:29 PM.Tags: None
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