Smokes a rollin!

Put 70# of bellies in the smoker this morning. Filling the neighborhood with good smelling smoke. Fresh bacon tomorrow!

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I’m just now getting ready to put the sticks in the smoke here.

MMMMMMMMMMMMM smells good!

I see everything is on a trailer. Does this mean I can expect free delivery too?

That gives me a new visual for the term of “Haul’in Bacon” (from back in the 60/70’s)

That’s one cool smoker on wheels.! . Or one hot smoker. . RRR

About 10 hrs. Time to take them out.

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I’ll leave them hang and cool tonight. Partially freeze them and slice them up tomorrow.

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lets see now,three bushels of tomatoes,twenty heads of lettuce,two gallons of mayo,about forty loaves bread for toast,BLT’s for everybody at Shawn’s house!!
looks great !!

Iowaboy1 wrote:

lets see now,three bushels of tomatoes,twenty heads of lettuce,two gallons of mayo,about forty loaves bread for toast,BLT’s for everybody at Shawn’s house!!
looks great !!

Iowaboy1 wrote:

lets see now,three bushels of tomatoes,twenty heads of lettuce,two gallons of mayo,about forty loaves bread for toast,BLT’s for everybody at Shawn’s house!!
looks great !!

As it turns out, I will be traveling to the north shore of Mille Lacs tomorrow. I suppose a detour could be worked into my travel plans.

Iowaboy1 wrote:

lets see now,three bushels of tomatoes,twenty heads of lettuce,two gallons of mayo,about forty loaves bread for toast,BLT’s for everybody at Shawn’s house!!
looks great !!

You forgot 10 lbs of avacados. Only way to eat a BLT anymore…or is it BLTA?

Huntindave wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>iowaboy1 wrote:</div>
lets see now,three bushels of tomatoes,twenty heads of lettuce,two gallons of mayo,about forty loaves bread for toast,BLT’s for everybody at Shawn’s house!!
looks great !!

As it turns out, I will be traveling to the north shore of Mille Lacs tomorrow. I suppose a detour could be worked into my travel plans.

It’ll be done by 5pm and vacuum sealed. Detour and stop.

Riverruns, do you wet or dry brine them before you smoke them?

Pretty sure he dry brines these.

I dry brine. This was 8 days. I also soak out in water.this batch 15 hours soaked out in water changing water 1 time.

I also hung the bellies for 8 hours before I put in smoker. Just a matter of convince as too when I started the smoker.

Well here we go. Just under 700# today stuffed. Baloney and cook sausage stuffed, smoked and done.

Weiners in smoker now. Smoke generator and smoke tube filled. I’ll take those out in the morning.

Did just under 700# today.

80# of brats in 1 picture.

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Im in awe. I dont know how to do any of this. Heck, where can I even buy pork bellies?

wowzer does that look good riverruns……… awesome!!!!need a taste tester!!!!!!!

Wow hats off to you.
Blows my operation out of the water

robby wrote:

Im in awe. I dont know how to do any of this. Heck, where can I even buy pork bellies?

You can get pork bellies at Sam’s Club. I buy mine through my sister in law who gets them from a distributer. Cheaper than Sam’s Club. I’m picking up 120# tomorrow, to smoke in February. Bacon is about the easiest thing to make. Sounds intimidating but it’s mostly a waiting period for curing.

Good grief RR !! how many truck loads of crackers,cheese,and cabbage does it take to go with that haul !!??
and that doesnt count the buns for the brats !!
woof !! I dont want to even think about the amount of beer to cook with and drink!!

Nicely done sir

Iowaboy1 wrote:

Good grief RR !! how many truck loads of crackers,cheese,and cabbage does it take to go with that haul !!??
and that doesnt count the buns for the brats !!
woof !! I dont want to even think about the amount of beer to cook with and drink!!

Nicely done sir

A definite hats off to my friends that are here to help process their venison. It’s all family and fun. These guys know how too run this and it goes awesome. I’m in the background most of the time doing the stuff never seen.

Thanks for the compliments from all.

A definite time saver, although very, very expensive is this stapler. If you ever seen one work, you would never hand tie a casing in your life. I bought this a few years ago and it’s absolutely necessary and amazing?

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