Had some Black forest bacon from Whole Foods.Awesome for store bought bacon!Any idea what the secret is?It is rubbed with some sort of black seasoning rub and is pretty sweet.
Old School in the Black Forest you would hang it in the chimney for several months and would get black with do additional stuff
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Like this chimney at the Musemsdorf on Cloppenburg Germany
My grandfather always told me they built a small place in the fire place chimney to store bacon. Is this what your talking about?
I sent a msg to a Swiss guy I know living in the Philippines. He does his with a TQ/Brown Sugar dry rub with a standard Pastrami Rub. He had no idea how authentic it was. The recipe was from his grandma, who called it "Black Forest Bacon".