Just bought a pork belly, what the heck do I do with it?

[Royalslover]

I've never even seen a pork belly in real life. So while walking through Costco today and seeing them I had to grab one. So now what do I do, make bacon, smoke it straight up?

 

[LMAJ]

Porchetta!!!!!
http://www.bbq-brethren.com/forum/showthread.php?t=202941&highlight=porchetta
http://www.bbq-brethren.com/forum/showthread.php?t=222897&highlight=porchetta

Or you could always make bacon...

 

[Smoke Dawg]

Or you can just grill it!

 

[Titch]

This worked
http://www.bbq-brethren.com/forum/showthread.php?t=208289

 

[bobthetomato]

I am attempting to make bacon. I am trying Madman Bacon:

http://www.bbq-brethren.com/forum/showthread.php?t=222991

 

[Q Junkie]

^^^^^Yes, yes, yes and of course yes to all of the above.
Oh yeah, smoked pork belly tacos.

 

[kathicooks]

I have done this twice. Fantastic! http://shecookshecleans.net/2012/04/30/maple-bourbon-smoked-pork-belly/

 

[Royalslover]

So if I just rubbed it up and smoked it what kind of texture would it have? Is it like butt? There is so much fat that I can't imagine it rendering out. Think I'm leaning toward bacon but that porchetta looks amazing.

 

[Phubar]

Rub it and smoke it for about 5 hours.
The outcome is butter.
Porkbelly is IMO best cut of the pig.

 

[TroyA65]

I love making Bacon!!

http://www.bbq-brethren.com/forum/showthread.php?t=227345

 

[CakeM1x]

Make bacon with half of it and then roast the other half. If you've never had pork belly besides it being bacon your life is about to change forever.

 

[THoey1963]

I went Asian with mine...

http://www.bbq-brethren.com/forum/showthread.php?t=218588

 

[Royalslover]

But if I just smoke it isn't there so much fat that it's inedible?

 

[BBQ Freak]

I have never done one yet but I would smoke it first and then fry it in a skillet :biggrin1:

 

[THoey1963]

Smoke it hotter and longer, and it will render out. I did not feel like I was chewing a wad of fat. I felt like I was chewing a nice tender piece of pork.