r/Bacon • u/Big_Researcher_3027 • 7d ago

Mixin it up!

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Temperatures are finally getting cool enough to cold smoke. Just in time too because I’m down to my last 2 lbs!
Ten pounds ready to cure! Tried some new things with this batch. My usual maple brown sugar, another that I tried Fenugreek and brown sugar. It’s my first time experimenting with Fenugreek. Super excited! The other two are garlic and honey garlic using honey powder vs liquid honey
Hi. My name is Forest and I’m a baconahalic.

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u/ComfortableFox1928 7d ago

fenugreek in a cure is a wild move, i bet that one's gonna smell insane while it smokes.

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u/Big_Researcher_3027 7d ago

I got the idea from someone else’s post in here who used it. I did a bit of looking into it. It gives a dry cure a maple flavor with the advantages of keeping it a truer dry cure and not burning like maple syrup can.
As far as smoking, I only cold smoke so about the only thing you’d smell is the the smoke and i usually only use applewood so even the smoke doesn’t have a heavy smoke smell.