Homemade SMOKED BACON - How to Cure and Smoke BACON in Traditional way at home NO Nitrates only Salt
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Finally, thanks to my friend Ginette who has a wonderful garden, today we see how to season and smoke the BACON, NOT the ITALIAN PANCETTA AFFUMICATA but the famous BRITISH or AMERICAN SMOKED BACON.
The process is very simple and will give you great satisfaction 😉
Even the necessary material is very easy to find and you probably already have it.
INGREDIENTS:
Pork belly 2,5 Kg
Coarse sea salt 100 g
Cane Sugar 100 g
2 sprigs rosemary
2 cloves garlic
1 grill
2 pots
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Haha, you got me with those slaps and the serious face. Spectacular!
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😂 I am Thailand too 🤪
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@@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato I believe it is possible but discouraged unless really important.
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@@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato We should all get together and get a proper tasting of our homebrews, mamma mia and spectacular included ;-)
I wait for it at the end of each video! 💖😂
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Yeah, when Martial Law is over here in Victoria Australia we will do same, and have double drink when each time you wave your hands in circle, like Bueno Va Bene gesture. Discovered your vid yesterday, replicated your 'Italian cured lion pork' today, having home brew to chill out. Love your work, multo gracie, (Polaco Australian) Peter
Your dry, clandestine humor so gets me going! That you’re now my hero of traditional food? Spectacular. I’m so hooked.
😂👍🏼 thanks
This is the go to channel for all smoking, curing and other wonderful delicacies.
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I laughed so hard when you slapped it. I make bacon every few months and I did that the first time my soon to be wife helped me. She just looked at me like I was an idiot. But now when the refrigerator smells like smoke no one complains.
Keep the videos coming I enjoy them. Keep safe
Oh My. I have to admit. I've been watching several of your videos and I've gradually seen your production evolve. It's very endearing. Keep it up. Well done sir.
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I don't think you have ever made anything that wasn't "spectacular". Thank you, I appreciate you teaching the world your the secrets of life.
He did salami that was not spectacular
We stayed in Thailand because of the virus, normally we wanted to go back to Switzerland, but stayed here instead. I like your videos very much, you kindled my fire to start making Salami and your stuff again. What I make regularly here is ham, raw bacon and sausages for the grill.
Yes good idea but because we are both Italian with the visa was too complicated 😭
Hello and thank you for all your wonderful videos!! I also make the smoke bacon, however, I will remove the skin, then I mix the sea salt and sugar with water to make a brine and soak the belly in the fridge for one week. After one week, I dry the belly for 24hrs in the fridge before smoking in the old steel drum I slow smoke it hanging at low temperature until it looks ready, usually about 3hrs for a 2kilo belly, then I will dry it again for 48 hrs. In the fridge. I enjoy watching your method! Also, no carbonara is better than one with the home made bacon! Spectacular! Thank you and stay safe!
Thanks for sharing your experience and technique
Spectacular 😉
I made this Pork Belly/Bacon exactly as you showed us, except that I used my Weber Kettle Charcoal Grill. I had a hard time at first to get the temperature right, but I finally did get it to stay between 190 and 210 degrees F. using Hickory wood and Kingsford coal. It took 3 hours and 15 minutes to reach 154 degrees F. We let cool on our counter, then refrigerator overnight. We fried it this morning and it is totally amazing. Very, very good. It is definitely SPECTACULAR. My wife and I would like to thank you for bringing your skills to us through your videos. You are an extremely talented man. My family came from Furnari, Province of Messina, Sicily, Italy. I am the first born in the United States. My family did not do much with meat, so I did not learn. They did mostly garden and wine. I really appreciate what you are doing. I will leave a donation for you after I taste my dried sausage from your other video...
Spectacular 🤩 thanks for this beautiful message, for sharing your experience and for your support. Greetings from Italy to you and your family 😉👍🏼
Your sense of humour is great! Thank you for sharing all of the content that you produce and put out on UA-cam. 'I've learned a lot from you so Grazi from Canada.'
😂👍🏼🥳 grazie
Ok so my neighbour was smoking stuff for 2 days and all the smoke went in my house, i was very upset and then I caught him watching your channel so now im smoking with my neigbour. Thanks awesome.
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@@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato hahahaa 🤣👌
Thank you for this beautiful and very easy recipe. I don't have a garden so I smoked it inside my mom's oven using pieces of coconut shell and it came out spectacular! My mom wasn't too happy about the kitchen and her oven smelling of smoke but she really enjoyed the way the bacon turned out.
I'm going to try and modify this recipe to make smoked spicy Chorizo meat in a bottle.
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1:31 This man knows exactly what he is doing.
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That looks yummy. The wife comment was hilarious! 🤣. Thanks, Stella
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I have just bought a smoking barbecue, what a miracle I found your channel. 😍
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O! When you cut that piece it made me hungry in an instant. So good. Nice explanation and easy preparation. Thanks for sharing as always
😋👍🏼🤩 it was really spectacular
Wow my mouth is watering. I tried smoking pork belly for the 1st time two days before watching your video. I didn't use any herbs or sugar...I just used salt. It came out so nicely. After watching your video, l'm going to try your recipe. Thank you so much from South Africa 😉
Absolutely spectacoola thank you again everything you made really up my street can’t stop watching, ok okay wont tell my husband I’d learned from you as he will blame you for the smoky home 😂
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@@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato okay spectaculaw to hear from you 😅 thx no belly pork unfortunately I'm making limoncello instead, love all the wine making videos too ciao ciao
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me and my wife we stay in Bangkok, and it is not a problem to keep bacon in our fridge, she just love it ;) Thanks for all your recipes, keep doing it
Thank you for your recipes and dedication & humour, love from Canada 🍁
Thanks 🥳 love from Italy
I finally did the bacon. It came out amazing, but I had to dry it out for 2 days after the smoke. Before the 2 days it was too wet to get crispy. I see the bacon here had the same issue, but after 2 days it was amazing. Easily the best bacon I've ever had and equally as good for breakfast as it is as lardons, the more common way of preparing bacon as a very versatile ingredient to anything. It's been the wow factor in everything I've done with it so far.
Spectacular 🥳 thanks for sharing your experience
Your videos and the information are excellent and easy to follow! You should have your own TV series as you certainly deserve it my friend....
Thanks 😂 your are too kind
Thanks 😂 your are too kind
Another great video, I've been making Bacon for 9 years in Phuket, I found Coconut Shell to be a good smoke source and it is free. I use it for cold smoking Bacon and it always turns out great but takes quite a lot longer with up to 16 hours in my smoker cabinet.
Thanks for the good idea 👍🏼😉
Hello! Are you talking about that flossy stuff in shell?
No the thin, Hard, woody inner shell. It is very good but needs to be cleaned of all the white flesh and broken into usable size pieces.
Barry Rowe thanks!
I was really waiting for this video impatiently truly so very important and very wonderful way and so easy too thanks my dear for sharing have a nice day -- grazie
Thanks 👍🏼 have a nice day too 😉
@@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato لgreetings my dear
Thank you a million times , this bacon is out of this world good. Just finished curing, so smoked it yesterday and fried it this morning. Spectacular 🤪😋😁
Very nice. I remove the skin before I cure. I then make Chicharon with the skin. I love the cure without nitrates.
🤔 bravo 👍🏼 I should try chicharon
Amazing video, once I get some free time, I will try this recipe. Your humor is great, I like your videos!! :-)
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I have my fridge, she has her fridge, so I can do all I want! Thanks... I enjoy your show very much!
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I love your dry Humour hahaha.
I'm Muslim and of course I don't take pork, I take lamb or beef but you're my favorite chef thank you for great ideas
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Ok check the prosciutto violin or the duck ham 😉
@@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato Will I do, thank you
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Your a grate chef mate. Much love from Australia
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Very , very nice.You are the grate chef. thankyou for the ricipe, i reallly like it.You have a good imagination.
You are doing... hmm... SPECTACULAR things! Thank You!
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I've just placed a kilo of pork belly with your recipe, of course adjusted for weight. Will wait out the suggested waiting/curing time and let you know how it goes. Thank you for the recipe Chef.
That bacon looks awesome!
Thanks 😊
I keep smiling still, even know I finished watching your video like 3 minutes ago.
It is cold here in the morning but very nice later, it is still way better than the 35°C to 45°C we had over the whole summer!
Enjoy 😎 here in the south of Italy we maximum 15*C 🥶
I like your windmill movement!
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For Smoke try using dry cleaned Coconut Shell Andrea, makes great smoke it is easy to get and for free in Thailand. I use it all the time and swear by it.
Thanks for the information 👍🏼 I have to try when I will back in Thailand 😎 thanks for the idea
Love smoke bacon 🥓 you are the legend 🙌
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I used this recipe and it is sublime. Thank you.
Hi Sir you are very at what you a lot of people can learn from you, I have that you very much.
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That was double spectacular 🥳🤗
Very professional , congrats!
Nice cooking! We love to smoke in the Weber all the time! 😋👌😊
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I made your sourdough and your salami and both were excellent! Thank you 🙏
your way of making food is spectacular !! 😎 we don’t say to our wives 😂
I said you make a good friend . when you have something to hide with your friend he or she is your sincere friend . 😃🥰
thanks bro . Appreciations from Iran 💐💐
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"Because i like to complicate my life" We must be related!
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Hi, I have 2 separate 1 kg pork belly’s ‘curing’ for the final 3 days. Just watching the end and noticed you put your bacon into a hot pan😳. Faux-Pas, I’ve been told by culinary people that bacon should go in a cold pan and the fat is then slowly rendered out. Not sure it matters , just something I noticed. The Pitina are spectacular; I have also Coppola’s and Soppressata from you site curing in my wine cooler😁. Keep up the good work
👍🏼 let us know
It looks really tasty. I'm working on a dry hung bacon right now, but I think this one is next.
Sawadee Kop - Excellent Recipe - Chef!
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What do you typically do with the oil after its been with the chili? I have come to enjoy drizzling a bit of chili oil on my pizza. Spectacular.
Spectacular! love your cooking
I always enjoy your videos. Yours are very informative and educational.
Do you keep your bacon in the fridge or freezer? Thank you 😊
Thanks 😊
Freezer 👍🏼
@@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato Arigatō / Thank you.
I love your videos...thank you.
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Great videos - thank you!
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Once I will try this hot smoked US/Canadian Bacon method. I use to do it the German way and cold smoke it. The results are great, but the process is time consuming. I will give this a try.
Keep us updated 😉
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Spectacular!!! Tell me please, how long can you store it in the fridge before it goes bad?
2 months if you cut a slice every day
If you want store longer you can vacuum it 😉
Hi mate I've just made my first bacon using your recipe and it tastes amazing! Thank you very much for posting all the videos. I'm looking forward to making some more of your recipes like the salami. Cheers! I was going to attach a photo of it but it seems I can't.
Spectacular 🤩 well done 👍🏼 please share the videos with your friends and family
You can show me the pictures on instagram 😉
My mouth is watering
Today I start a new one that I will cook in the oven 😉 stay tuned
Wow brilliant 👍🏻
50 shades of bacon lolll!!! without joking now... ones again i learned something interesting!! thank you Chef!! :)
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What a surprise, I live with my Thai wife in Thailand too, in the Isaan. I brought a lot of small butchery machines here so I kann make all the things that I am missing. We have a greenhouse too, for seleri, herbs, tomatoes and so on.
Where do you live in Thailand?
Spectacular, at that time we were in Pattaya but now we are back to Italy because of the virus situation
spectacular!
Exactly 😉
the wheeling hand gesture! Spectacular 15.19
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😍Definitely going to try that 😀😋
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Thank you so much for this! I live on a tropical island and am so happy to find you and all your tips and recipes made specially for hot humid temperatures! Did you first burn dry wood and later add soaked mango wood? God bless you always 😊🙏
You can't beat home made bacon. Nice DIY smoker. If you don't want to smoke it, I suppose you can wind dry it? Thanks
😂 you can bake it 😉
Spectacular!! 😁👍🥂😁
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Impresionante, be sure I will do it. Thaks
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Looking good, I will try
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You inspired me! So I just got done patting it with the salt and sugar and put the 4kg of pork belly belly side up like you suggested but I have 2 questions:
1. After I re-salt and sugar it at the 48 hour mark do I place it back in the fridge meat side down again? I ask because it looked as though you were preparing to put it back in the fridge fat side down.
2. I live in Thailand so getting bamboo and mango wood is a cinch but does it matter whether they are dry or green?
I subscribe to the channel because you DON'T use nitrates . I am sensitive to nitrates , they give me terrible headaches . Thank you for sharing your recipes !
👍🏼 all my recipe contains only sea salt 😉
Spectacular
Nice work 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇮🇹
Thanks
I have 2 questions regarding your smoked bacon.
1) why don’t you use pink burning salt.
2) is it necessary to use sweetener, like brown sugar or maple syrup in the cure?
Amazing bacon, too much flavor! It's nothing like the bacon we buy. 👍👍👍 I did the slaps as well😂!!
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Awesome bacon video! Thank you!
Love it.
Me too 🤤
Im muslim but i want to eat that food. İts look very tasty.😋
Greetings from Türkiye 🇹🇷
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Would vacuum packing the bacon at each fridge step help?
Yes 👍🏼 good idea
Holy Pork!!, you make me drooling saliva..
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Love n respect all the way from Pakistan Lahore,,,
Thanks 🤩
Very cool.
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Hello there. Many thanks. One question.. all these lovely cured delicacies your creating. How long can they be stored? As when I kill a pig and want to make these. I wonder about long term storage of them ? How did the great grandparents store it ? I hope you can answer me. Now I go watch more of your wonderful work.
In Italy they kill the pig in the winter and store the different cold cuts in the basement
@@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato thankyou
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Spectacular!
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@@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato I really like all your recipes. I am also from Europe and live in in a tropical country, in Central America. I am struggling with the heat sometime and miss some product like this to cook. So that is really good to have these instructions to do it on our own with simple practices and ingredients. I enjoy the idea of using mango tree wood instead of apple or cherry tree wood, which are not available in the tropics. I was actually wondering for a while if it could be a suitable substitute. Thanks for confirming that, I'll probably give a try shortly. I did make smoked bacon with Hickory wood several times but the smoked flavor is way too strong.
Good job! It was interesting as always😃 SPECTACULAR
Thanks 👍🏼 spectacular 🤪
I tried so hard not to make eye contact with you while you were spanking that slab. I failed.
Ok I'll try thanks
Let us know 😉
I would like to make them from sheep, do you think it will work?
I never tried 🤔
Sir iam india iam like ur reaspi 💯 present good
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Something to try out, that´s for sure!
😂👍🏼 good idea 😉
Man i love the way you do EVERYTHING! Especially in Thailand where i grew up. Not going to lie, the availability of facilities and climate are bad for Dry aging. Try a NAAM recipe?
Naam recipe? Naam is it not water?
@@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato I guess he meant naem, the fermented minced pork meat. Even though the lactic acid offers some protection I would not be comfortable by eating my own homemade hehe, I leave that to professionals ;-)
I have made Naem on many occasions both in many places in Thailand and in Australia as well in hot weather. Fresh pork is the key to it, slithered Pork Skin is available frozen at Macro and I use small food grade Plastic Bags with rubber bands wrapped around it to cure it in. I ferment for 48 hours at room temperature of around 30c - 35c. Then refrigerate for 24 hours before consuming. It turns out great and the Thais and Aussies love it. It can also be made from Beef as but without the Shredded Pork skin.
Hey,
I was wodnering if you don't smoke the bacon,after curing for several days, can you still eat it by frying ?
Yes 👍🏼
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@Inar Ord Always!!!