Smoked Beef Bacon
Crafted from beef belly, this bacon undergoes the same process as its pork counterpart, promising a outcome. Our beef bacon will have you saying, "Holy cow, that's delicious!"
Smoked Beef Bacon
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Servings
4-6
Prep Time
30 minutes
Cook Time
6 hours
Crafted from beef belly, this bacon undergoes the same process as its pork counterpart, promising a outcome. Our beef bacon will have you saying, "Holy cow, that's delicious!"
Ingredients
- 6.5 LB – Beef Belly (Talk to your local butcher)
- 88g – Kosher Salt
- 30g – Sugar
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8g – Speed cure (pink salt)
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¾ Cup – Rodeo Rub
Directions
- Trim the beef bacon as needed, looking for an even surface.
- Combine the salt, sugar and pink cure in a bowl and stir unil well mixed.
- Rub the beef belly on all sides with the salt cure mixture. Rub into the sides as well.
- Place the belly in a vacpack bag, adding whatever cure fell off into the bag as well.
- Vacseal and place in the fridge to cure.
- Cure in the fridge for 5-8 days, or about 1 day per 500g. In this recipe that will take 6 days. Flip daily and lightly massage each time to help with even curing.
- Remove the bacon fromt eh vacpack and rinse under cool water to remove excess cure and salt.
- Pat dry with paper towel.
- Place the bacon on a rack lined tray and back into the fridge overnight to dry out and form a pellicle.
- Smoking day – Preheat your Pro Max or Classic to 180 degrees on the Smoke setting.
- Season the bacon on all sides with rodeo rub and let it rest at room temperature while the smoker preheats.
- Hang the bacon or lay on the smoker rack.
- Fill a sawdust pan ½ full with sawdust and dampen with water. Place on the heating element.
- Insert and meat probe into the bacon to monitor temperature.
- Set dampers to 2/3 closed.
- Smoke for 3 hours.
- Remove sawdust pan.
- Change setting to Cook and increase the temperature of the smoker to 225 degrees. Cook until the internal temperature of the bacon reaches 150 degrees.
- Remove from the smoker and let rest at room temperature for 1 hours before placing into the fridge to cool completely.
- Slice and enjoy!
