Spiced Coffee bacon to smoke tomorrow

[Huh? What?]

The spiced coffee pork belly I started curing awhile back will get rubbed with instant coffee and smoked tomorrow over cherry wood.


The unsmoked belly...


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The recipe - all weights are percentages of the weight of the pork belly being cured.

Dry-rubbed, vacuum packed and cured for ten days



Spiced Coffee bacon


3% kosher salt
2% sugar
1% espresso powder
.5 % cinnamon
.5% cardamom
.5% ginger
.5% pepper
.25% nutmeg
.25% cure#1

[Q Junkie]

I am intrigued by this recipe. Have you made this before? Can you describe the flavor?
The only thing I have ever put cardamon in before was french toast and it kicked azz.

[landarc]

great looking color so far

[Huh? What?]

I am intrigued by this recipe. Have you made this before? Can you describe the flavor?
The only thing I have ever put cardamon in before was french toast and it kicked azz.


Cross between cappuccino, and chai. In fact, one place the wife and I go to sells something called a Dirty Chai, which is hot chai tea with a shot of espresso in it. This is reminiscent of that.

[JackW]

I love bacon, that is looking awesome!

Jack

[Q Junkie]

I have two bellies in the freezer and my wife drinks a chai every morning. This may give me a way to get some bonus points and smoke some bacon. Yay! :clap2:

[Huh? What?]

Cold smoked over cherry wood for ten hours...


http://i1282.photobucket.com/albums/a523/electricminer/Bacon/IMG_0376-small_zpsyeeny8tq.jpg


Fried up a couple of strips. Flavor is coffee/chai, and quite good. Wife approves, so this one goes in the finished recipe file.