Bacon, that'll shut 'er up! Finished pics

[Smokin Soon]

One heck of a beautiful batch of BACON! Your trimming and packaging skills are to be admired. My bacon is pretty good, but don't look like yours for sure.

[SiFumar]

Sure looks pretty.

[Consooger]

MMMMMMMMMM Nice lookin' belly ya got there Larry. I got mine I have to pull out of the cure tomorrow. I let it set an extra day and then I'm gonna 14 hour smoke it, nothing like making your own bacon!!!! YUMMMMMMM

[Tenpoint5]

Way to go Larry!! Great looking Bacon.

[smoke em if you got em]

WOW! That is awesome. Don't know if my slicer will hold up but I'm gonna have to try this.

Mike

[rcger]

Smoked on Wednesday with almost 4 hours of hickory smoke.  Allowed to hang until cooled and then wrapped in plastic and into the frig.
Sliced it all up today.  Now that's a pile of bacon.

How much you ask?  There are 20 of these packages with a dozen slices in each package.

That's 240 slices on presentation boards and 3 more vac bags with at least another 3 dozen "not so pretty" slices for a total of 276 slices of bacon!  Also, have plenty of trimmings for seasoning beans, etc.

Thanks for looking folks.

Where does one find the presentation boards?

[SouthernSmoked]

WOW!! Larry that looks awesome. What did you use for the packaging board?

[KyNola]

Thanks guys.  I ordered the boards from these folks: http://www.amindle.com/  I measured the quart and gallon vac seal bags and backed off about 3 inches in the length to allow for room to vac and seal and ordered two different sizes.  The folks at A. Mindle make presentation boards for commercial use but they are also very accommodating for smaller orders like mine.  They will custom cut them to whatever size you want.  They are on the approved vendors list for the forum as well.

[Wildcat]

Very impressive Larry. One of these days I will get around to trying my hand at Bacon.

[SouthernSmoked]

Thanks Larry for the reminder on Mindle.

It's getting that time of year again.

Did you order a few for fish or are they the same?

[Smoker John]

That bacon looks fantastic

[KyNola]

Did you order a few for fish or are they the same?

I think they're the same Mark although I could easily be mistaken.

[Habanero Smoker]

Did you order a few for fish or are they the same?

At the time I ordered mine, they were not taking custom size orders, and the boards are the same - gold on one side/silver on the other. They had two sizes, and what they did was to sell the run overs from larger orders. During one of my emails to them, I asked if I could cut the boards to different sizes. They replied I could; cutting the boards does not damage them. So if you have boards that are wide enough for the 11" bags, if needed you can cut the boards so they can fit the 8" bags, or even the smaller Portion Pouches. The Portion Pouches and boards gives your home made dry sausage, Canadian bacon, cheese etc; a nice professional touch.

[Mark in Ottawa]

Larry - that bacon looks A-MAY-ZING!

Do you have a dedicated machine to slice the bacon? Surely you can't do that by hand and get that perfect and uniform slicing?

Great job - you've got me inspired!

Mark (in Ottawa)

[KyNola]

Thanks Mark.  I have a 10 inch commercial grade slicer that does a good job.  I use it to slice pretty much everything that I make in larger quantities.