#BLACK FOREST BACON DRY RUB RECIPE TV#

Irish and Canadian bacon are made from lean pork loin and utilize a brine to cure the pork. Start to finish, the process can take 9 or 10 days before you are eating bacon.īacon made from pork belly typically starts with a dry cure. Homemade BaconĪll homemade bacon recipes require patience. Steven’s new recipe is a guarded secret until the show airs in April of 2021, but I will share with you how I made bacon following his recipe in his book Project Smoke (page 113). One advantage of working as the fire wrangler is that I was able to take the last pork belly home. There were 15 pounds of pork belly ordered for one of Steven’s new recipes on Project Fire. Irish and Canadian bacon is made from the pork loin, a cut located near the animal’s spine, not the belly. It comes from the Old Teutonic word “backe,” meaning back. The phrase “Bring home the bacon” refers to a 12 th century English church that rewarded men who claimed not to have argued with their wives for a year and a day with a much-coveted side of bacon.īacon, or “bacoun,” was a Middle English term referring to pork in general. Even the Roman Empire had their version of bacon (petaso) that was boiled with figs, and then browned and seasoned with a pepper sauce. At the same time, pigs were being domesticated and raised for food on the European continent.

History of Baconīacon dates as far back as 1500 BC when the Chinese would cure pork bellies with salt. If you want to know what a fire wrangler does you can check out my blog “Behind the Scenes as a Fire Wrangler”. Have you every made your own bacon? I have always wanted to try and was finally motivated to make bacon after watching the process while working on Season Three of Project Fire as the resident fire wrangler. And here’s what Steve has to say about curing and smoking bacon at home. -Steven Raichlen

So when Steve talks about a recent triumph on the grill, I listen. He’s also a physical therapist and a pretty terrific cook. He’s the guy who assembles and fires up all our grills.

#BLACK FOREST BACON DRY RUB RECIPE TV#

He’s the fire wrangler on my Project Fire TV show. You’ve probably seen Steve Nestor even if you’ve never met him.

Black forest bacon dry rub recipe