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Title: Bacon: Wet cure or dry cure?????
Post by: Bavind on January 23, 2011, 02:14:16 PM

What is your preference? any pluses or minuses for either?

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Post by: jiggerjams on January 24, 2011, 08:05:30 AM

Have only used the Tenpoint5 recipe. It was excellent. From what I remember reading here I think that most prefer to dry cure their bellies.

Title: Re: Bacon: Wet cure or dry cure?????
Post by: rcger on January 24, 2011, 08:42:31 AM

I like to dry cure with 1 TBS MTQ, 1 TBS Brown Sugar and 1 TBS of Maple Syrup per pound of belly.

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Post by: wyoduke on January 27, 2011, 02:41:47 PM

I also use dry cure on all my bacon turns out great

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