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Title: Tenpoin5 Maple Cured bacon "Curing under vacuum?"
Post by: punchlock on August 07, 2010, 05:18:33 PM

I will be making Tenpoin5 Maple Cured bacon. I purchased a 10# belly today and plan on curing it with the maple syrup and sugar I made this spring.

I have a question about the cure. I would like to apply the cure and then vacuum seal the individual slabs. Will this affect the cure time? Is there any issue with curing in a vacuum sealed bag?

Any insight would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance Punch.

Title: Re: Tenpoin5 Maple Cured bacon "Curing under vacuum?"
Post by: FLBentRider on August 07, 2010, 05:38:54 PM

I have cured bellies in regular bags and in vac seal bags.

I use the same curing times, since I also did not have a way to calculate how much the vacuum was going to speed up the cure.

Title: Re: Tenpoin5 Maple Cured bacon "Curing under vacuum?"
Post by: punchlock on August 07, 2010, 06:31:05 PM

Thanks FLB, I will follow the recipe as laid out.

Title: Re: Tenpoin5 Maple Cured bacon "Curing under vacuum?"
Post by: Tenpoint5 on August 08, 2010, 06:05:32 AM

I have never done it in a vacuum so I can't answer that one

Title: Re: Tenpoin5 Maple Cured bacon "Curing under vacuum?"
Post by: 3rensho on August 08, 2010, 11:28:31 AM

My last belly I maple cured and under vacuum but, as FLBentrider said, there is no way to easily determine the effect of the vacuum. I just used the normal time and it was great.

Title: Re: Tenpoin5 Maple Cured bacon "Curing under vacuum?"
Post by: love the smoke on August 08, 2010, 04:08:38 PM

Always do the vacuum bag thing and always do the same time for cure

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