Pecan Syrup Flavored Bacon

[SmokinSignals]

First bacon, following tenpoints directions.  Decided to try a pecan flavored syrup and will be using pecan wood to smoke with.  10 days to go!

[beefmann]

looking good so far

[Tenpoint5]

Nothing wrong with that. It should turn out pretty dang good!!

[SmokinSignals]

Bacon turned out flavorful, but a little salty.  I should have soaked it longer and taste tested before smoking.  My son loves it, though.

[Tenpoint5]

Bacon turned out flavorful, but a little salty.  I should have soaked it longer and taste tested before smoking.  My son loves it, though.

Salty and you should have soaked it longer?? Who's recipe did you use? I don't soak my bacon and I also noticed that you went 10 days on the cure time. Mine is 5-7. I am asking this because it isn't very often that folks say "The Bacon was flavorful but salty". Actually I have never heard it from any that I have made.

[KyNola]

If I recall correctly this is the second batch of bacon you have made that you thought was too salty.  You currently have 4 other bellies in your smoker today that you soaked and taste tested prior to putting them in the smoker and stated that the taste was just fine.  I have never known anyone to soak their bellies prior to smoking them but there's no harm I guess.  I'm guessing that your personal taste preference is maybe a bit "salt adverse".  Go back and check your various recipes.  You can always lower the salt content.

When you purchased "store bought" bacon, did you find it too salty as well? 

[SmokinSignals]

KyNola
This is the only bacon that turned out salty, the other 4 turned out great.  Just sliced them last night.  The only thing I did different with the 4 new bellies was I soaked them for 2 hours before sampling.  The first bacon I made, I only soaked it for 30 minutes and did not sample prior to smoking.   I used tenpoints bacon recipe for all slabs.  I also bought the salty slab from Whole Foods, and the other four slabs from an Asian market near us.  I wonder if Whole Foods may have salted or cured the belly before I did.  It was not the recipe that was amiss, because all four of the other bellies are great.  I could have made a mistake with the kosher salt on the first batch, or the meat was presalted or cured.

[KyNola]

So this thread http://forum.bradleysmoker.com/index.php?topic=31606.0  is referring to the Pecan Syrup Flavored Bacon that is the topic of the current thread we are posting in?

Sorry I got confused.

[SmokinSignals]

Yes, that is correct.  I started a new thread to see if I could get some input on what I could do different with the 4 other slabs.