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Title: I think I found a good price for pork bellies ??
Post by: love the smoke on January 21, 2010, 09:17:49 AM
Just got a price for some pork bellies

$.90 / pound for approxamatly 60 pounds

Is this a goood price ?

LTS

Title: Re: I think I found a good price for pork bellies ??
Post by: FLBentRider on January 21, 2010, 09:27:46 AM
Quote from: love the smoke on January 21, 2010, 09:17:49 AM
Just got a price for some pork bellies

$.90 / pound for approxamatly 60 pounds

Is this a goood price ?

LTS



It would be around here!
Title: Re: I think I found a good price for pork bellies ??
Post by: classicrockgriller on January 21, 2010, 09:37:29 AM
Beats my price.
Title: Re: I think I found a good price for pork bellies ??
Post by: KyNola on January 21, 2010, 09:40:51 AM
I would take it and run like the proverbial thief in the night!

KyNola
Title: Re: I think I found a good price for pork bellies ??
Post by: Tenpoint5 on January 21, 2010, 09:58:28 AM
I would give them their $54 grab those bellies and run like you stole something and the cops are coming!!! There should be lots a BACON in your future. Cut the bellies into Bradley rack size and vac seal then freeze, they freeze well.
Title: Re: I think I found a good price for pork bellies ??
Post by: watchdog56 on January 21, 2010, 12:38:15 PM
That is an excellent price around here. I have to pay at least twice that and that is considered a good price. Also I would have to buy the whole case which I think is around 60lb.  Where are you at?
Title: Re: I think I found a good price for pork bellies ??
Post by: KyNola on January 21, 2010, 12:43:14 PM
I have a source for bellies locally but the issue is I have to buy them by the case. 10 to a case and each belly is approximately 11 pounds.  I have a chest freezer but that's a LOT of bacon!  It's also not $.90 per pound either.

10.5, you got an estimate of how long pork bellies will freeze and still be good?

KyNola
Title: Re: I think I found a good price for pork bellies ??
Post by: OU812 on January 21, 2010, 01:54:54 PM
Thats a good price, $.90/lb is just under what I've been payin.

Last case, 110 lb, I bought took just over a year to consume and I only made it into bacon as I needed it. Each 11 lb slab was sealed in its own bag when I got them. Couldnt a diff from the first to the last slab.
Title: Re: I think I found a good price for pork bellies ??
Post by: KyNola on January 21, 2010, 02:26:59 PM
Thanks for the info 812 on how long it would last in the freezer.  That's good to know.  May reconsider now!

KyNola
Title: Re: I think I found a good price for pork bellies ??
Post by: OU812 on January 21, 2010, 02:31:25 PM
Go for it brother.

If I lived closer I'd go in half with ya.
Title: Re: I think I found a good price for pork bellies ??
Post by: KyNola on January 21, 2010, 07:09:30 PM
Thanks 812.  I'm thinking 110 pounds of bacon isn't totally absurd for two people in the house is it? :D

KyNola
Title: Re: I think I found a good price for pork bellies ??
Post by: hal4uk on January 21, 2010, 07:12:21 PM
Quote from: KyNola on January 21, 2010, 07:09:30 PM
Thanks 812.  I'm thinking 110 pounds of bacon isn't totally absurd for two people in the house is it? :D

KyNola

Depends on whether you substitute BACON for the jalapenos in ABTs...  ;D
(I'm pretty sure that's what 10.5 does)
Title: Re: I think I found a good price for pork bellies ??
Post by: Tenpoint5 on January 22, 2010, 02:47:00 AM
Quote from: KyNola on January 21, 2010, 07:09:30 PM
Thanks 812.  I'm thinking 110 pounds of bacon isn't totally absurd for two people in the house is it? :D

KyNola

Thats only 1 pound per person per week. I don't think it is nearly enough to sustain you for a whole year Kynola. Better get two cases!!!

Hal it is all in how you wrap the bacon around the cheese!!!
Title: Re: I think I found a good price for pork bellies ??
Post by: FLBentRider on January 22, 2010, 03:14:39 AM
Quote from: KyNola on January 21, 2010, 07:09:30 PM
Thanks 812.  I'm thinking 110 pounds of bacon isn't totally absurd for two people in the house is it? :D

Split three ways with Hal and Stc.
Title: Re: I think I found a good price for pork bellies ??
Post by: squirtthecat on January 22, 2010, 04:46:12 AM
Quote from: FLBentRider on January 22, 2010, 03:14:39 AM
Quote from: KyNola on January 21, 2010, 07:09:30 PM
Thanks 812.  I'm thinking 110 pounds of bacon isn't totally absurd for two people in the house is it? :D

Split three ways with Hal and Stc.

I wonder how low of a temp we could run the Stumps at...   We could do all 110 pounds of bacon at once!
Title: Re: I think I found a good price for pork bellies ??
Post by: KyNola on January 22, 2010, 06:49:16 AM
STC,
Doesn't have to be all that low.  When I smoke bacon I do it at 200 degrees.  Maybe if we just put one lump of charcoal rather than a whole 25 pound bag of charcoal in the Stumps we could get the temp down to 200 but come to think of it the bacon I see around here says hickory or maple smoked.  I don't think I've ever seen any bacon that said Kingsford smoked on it before. :D
Title: Re: I think I found a good price for pork bellies ??
Post by: squirtthecat on January 22, 2010, 07:19:21 AM

He'll have to add the Hickory to his fire box.   Hmmm...   Maybe we could rig a little crucible in it, and pile some Bear Mountain pellets in there.  ???
Title: Re: I think I found a good price for pork bellies ??
Post by: KyNola on January 22, 2010, 07:57:41 AM
Know anybody who has a couple hundred pounds of Bear Mountain hickory pellets laying around? ;)
Title: Re: I think I found a good price for pork bellies ??
Post by: hal4uk on January 22, 2010, 06:25:22 PM
Quote from: squirtthecat on January 22, 2010, 04:46:12 AM
I wonder how low of a temp we could run the Stumps at...   We could do all 110 pounds of bacon at once!
Bring your FoodSaver  ;D
Title: Re: I think I found a good price for pork bellies ??
Post by: KyNola on January 22, 2010, 08:14:44 PM
And several bags!