Tis the Season to Make Bacon!
Pork belly, just the sound of it makes most people woozy.
The smell of bacon cooking on Christmas morning is a time favored tradition.
The simplest of foods are the best and making your own bacon on a Duluth Forge Kamado Grill is darn near nirvana!
Homemade bacon is a lot easier to make than most people think and all you need is pork belly and time to create your own thick cut, delicious, bacon.
Umami of bacon
Most people don't know that there are 5 flavors: bitter, salty, sweet, sour and the 5th....umami (ooo-MOM-ee)
Umami is a Japanese word that translates to “pleasantly savory”.
We know it best as the meaty, savory full mouth feeling that bacon can best deliver.
You can also experience Umami when you sear a steak which breaks down protein and releases the flavor. …show more content…
Bringing home the bacon
It wasn't until the 17th Century that the word “bacon” was used to describe the smoked belly slices that are fried to perfection.
Around 2 billion pounds of bacon is eaten each year in the United States and most of it is eaten at breakfast.
But factory processed bacon is usually treated with toxic chemical additives to perserve it's shelf life.
Commercial bacon makers try to maximize profits and take short cuts in the curing process and inject brine with chemicals.
Processed Bacon vs Homemade
Buying organic meat that is free from antibiotics and processing chemicals is much healthier and homemade bacon and has more flavor than store bought.
Homemade bacon has an overall more intense “bacony” flavor and is not health food by any stretch of the imagination but as they say "all things in moderation."
How to Smoke Applewood Bacon on a Duluth Forge Kamado Grill
Ingredients
3 lbs pork belly
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1 tablespoons mustard powder
1 tablespoons ground pepper
8 oz salt
4 oz sugar
1 oz Prague Powder
Pork belly, just the sound of it makes most people woozy.
The smell of bacon cooking on Christmas morning is a time favored tradition.
The simplest of foods are the best and making your own bacon on a Duluth Forge Kamado Grill is darn near nirvana!
Homemade bacon is a lot easier to make than most people think and all you need is pork belly and time to create your own thick cut, delicious, bacon.
Umami of bacon
Most people don't know that there are 5 flavors: bitter, salty, sweet, sour and the 5th....umami (ooo-MOM-ee)
Umami is a Japanese word that translates to “pleasantly savory”.
We know it best as the meaty, savory full mouth feeling that bacon can best deliver.
You can also experience Umami when you sear a steak which breaks down protein and releases the flavor. …show more content…
Bringing home the bacon
It wasn't until the 17th Century that the word “bacon” was used to describe the smoked belly slices that are fried to perfection.
Around 2 billion pounds of bacon is eaten each year in the United States and most of it is eaten at breakfast.
But factory processed bacon is usually treated with toxic chemical additives to perserve it's shelf life.
Commercial bacon makers try to maximize profits and take short cuts in the curing process and inject brine with chemicals.
Processed Bacon vs Homemade
Buying organic meat that is free from antibiotics and processing chemicals is much healthier and homemade bacon and has more flavor than store bought.
Homemade bacon has an overall more intense “bacony” flavor and is not health food by any stretch of the imagination but as they say "all things in moderation."
How to Smoke Applewood Bacon on a Duluth Forge Kamado Grill
Ingredients
3 lbs pork belly
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1 tablespoons mustard powder
1 tablespoons ground pepper
8 oz salt
4 oz sugar
1 oz Prague Powder