THE ONLY BACON RECIPE YOU'LL EVER NEED 🔥🍁

THE ONLY BACON RECIPE YOU'LL EVER NEED 🔥🍁

This is how we make the infamous "Free Bacon".  If you know, you know.  
The hardest part about this recipe is having the patience to let the belly cure for a week.  The best part about this recipe is crushing beers while you load wood chips into your smoker all day.

Ingredients

  • 1 Bottle Tree Heat....you already got that though, right!?!
  • 5 lb Pork Belly, skin removed 
  • 1/2 c Kosher Salt

Directions

  1. Combine Tree Heat and salt to make a nice paste.
  2. Rub that sweet, spicy, salty goodness all over the pork belly leaving no nook and cranny neglected.
  3. Place in a non-reactive container, (plastic Tupperware, glass baking dish) cover with plastic wrap, and refrigerate.  If you can, try to put something flat on top with a weight to keep the belly nice and flat.  
  4. Flip the belly over every day or two for at least a week and up to 10 days.  This will ensure the cure works it's way into the meat.
  5. When you have a day to smoke it, rinse the belly off with cold water and pat dry.
  6. Place directly on a rack in your smoker.  Set temp at 200 degrees and smoke for 3 hours.  Keep feeding those wood chips!
  7. Turn up the heat to 275 degrees and smoke for another hour or so until it is golden brown.  (The timer I use is "Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version...it has a run time of 1hr 8mins so that works out nice!)
  8. Invite your friends over and give 'em some Free Bacon!!