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[hookup]

Mmmmm bacon.

Made my own a couple times, but figure that I'll stop while I'm ahead before my Dr tells me too. It wasn't your 'average' breakfast bacon - just to rich, but it made the best BLT's and was great for cooking with.

 

[Pup]

Just got back from Chickamauga Lake near Hixson/Chattanooga, TN. Will post pictures of the area later. I am sorry that I don't have any fish pictures to post. However, the area's pictures might be interesting nonetheless.

It's an easier call for me not to photograph a fish and let it die, rather than release it after a photo. I release it immediately. I'll try give viewers a head's up to what might be going on there over the next week or so.

Caught my biggest largemouth bass of the year there...for what that's worth.

 

[hookup]

Here's the bacon after a week in the cure. I trim the top layer of skin before the cure.

Cure was fresh ground pepper, kosher salt, curing salt, real maple sugar, beer



And after a couple hours of warm smoke just before slicing.

 

[AllenOK]

..... mmmmmm .... Bacon .....

I've heard it said that for every piece of bacon you eat, you can subtract 7 minutes from your life.

Based on that, I should have died in 1892.......

Hookup, brown sugar in the cure, that's the right path!

Anyone ever try Tennessee Mountaintop Bacon? Take a jelly roll pan, line it with parchment paper, lay out whatever bacon you have, and sprinkle it with a fairly heavy coat of brown sugar and cracked black pepper. Bake at 350 degrees F until done (not sure how long that is in a conventional oven), probably 15 minutes? Check it every 5 minutes after 10 minutes.

That stuff is meat candy!!!!! I'm not kidding! Make some sandwiches with it, whatever sandwich you like! That is, if you don't eat all that bacon as soon as it cools down enough to handle......

 

[Jig Man]

Dangit, ya'll are makin me hongry...

 

[hookup]

Homer Simpson .... LoL

No bacon candy, but it sounds great.

Have one I've tried a fattie .. you weave some bacon



Then take a pound of sausage and wrap whatever goodness you want inside, and then wrap in the weaved bacon & put on the smoker. Then slice pieces and make egg mac-fatties.

 

[Jig Man]

Hey, I just ate a bologne samich....

 

[AllenOK]

I've done a fattie. Didn't do the weave, but there was bacon involved. Ground beef, stuffed with sauteed onions and mushrooms, and some swiss cheese.

I did some Fajitas for dinner tonight. Should have taken a pic while the chicken was cooking......

 

[davidriley]

Here's the bacon after a week in the cure. I trim the top layer of skin before the cure.

Cure was fresh ground pepper, kosher salt, curing salt, real maple sugar, beer



And after a couple hours of warm smoke just before slicing.

Wow! That looks awesome. I can almost smell the aroma over here.
I bet it tastes good too!

David

 

[Jig Man]

you just had ta start this up again, and here I am eatin oatmeal....

 

[Hawnjigs]

Thought leaving my Brinkman 4,000 miles away was an opportunity to be kinder to my aging body. Now yah dunnit - gonna have to look for a replacement, and work on a Hawn style salty sweet cure.

Thanks for all the eye candy pics, guys.

 

[AllenOK]

you just had ta start this up again, and here I am eatin oatmeal....

A touch of salt, some brown sugar, whole butter, a little cinnamon and nutmeg, maybe a sprinkling of raisins.......

 

[StumpHunter]

WOW those pics just make me mad!!!!! Subway sub and had to look at all that food!!!

Russ, that is a state park. I try to get sites right on the water, cost a little more but worth it to me and some park the price is the same as the other sites.