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| Scrap Iron Chef's Bacon Recipe courtesy Alton Brown Show: Good Eats Episode: Scrap Iron Chef Overall User Rating:  |
Good stuff
12/15/2005 at 02:48pm
User: Randy from Largo, FL User Rating:
Looks really good, and relatively easy enough, but the cold smoker is another story altogether. Can you buy them anywhere?
heavenly pig strips
12/11/2006 at 01:10pm
User: Chris from Gages Lake, IL User Rating:
I've basically follow'd the recipe, you could only slightly taste the apple cider - but it gives you some bright sharpness, the molasses & sugar definately give you the sweet my only issue, keeping it around 75-80 for 6 hours, a wood mix of pecan, hickory & apple - tastes a bit "ashy"?? (maybe I ate a piece from the outside?) otherwise its so much more "PORK" tasting than anything you'd find at a gourmet shop... AB is correct, you've never eaten real bacon, until you've made your own. do yourself a favor and bake all your bacon.
I love pork bellies
11/01/2006 at 11:59pm
User: Mike from Embarrass, MN User Rating:
I watch many of ABs shows and am always driven to make the food. I have made his jerky recipe using the blowhard 2000 and scrap iron chef brought me to making a cold smoker. Using an old metal kitchen cabinet as the cold chamber and wooden drawers at the hot chamber, I just made the best bacon thanks to Alton. I smoked it for 6 hours and my wife made the brine. However, she forgot to pepper the bacon. So, she peppered it while it was drying before smoking and it turned out nicely. I recommend tasting the bacon after 4 hours of smoking to make sure that you like the smokiness. Once again, 2 thumbs up to AB.
cold smoker
08/18/2006 at 11:31pm
User: Napoleon from East Northport, NY User Rating:
It looks easy to do on the show the only problem is the cold smoker i think i have a good idea to make it though.
Good Cooking method
06/23/2007 at 10:12pm
User: Kitty from Hoffman Estates, IL User Rating:
We haven't actually tried making our own bacon (don't have the yard for the smoker). However, we did try cooking store-bought as this recipe sugests. I have to say, we haven't cooked bacon in a pan on the stove since, it doesn't curl up, and our apartment dosen't get full of smoke. Excellect method if you'r making BLTs.
Great Bacon with no nitrates
06/20/2005 at 03:29pm
User: james from seattle, WA User Rating:
bacon
Makin' Bacon
04/22/2004 at 01:51am
User: PAUL from Wasilla, AK User Rating:
Excellent episode. Have eaten bacon all my life, but never entertained the possibility of making my own until now. Now I just need to build a cold smoker.
Great Eats
02/29/2008 at 11:30am
User: Robert from Oregon City, OR User Rating:
This bacon is absolutely delicious and a nice bonus was collecting the liquid smoke from the ducting used to cool the smoke.
Found Cold Smoker Instructions
01/15/2005 at 10:10am
User: JUDY from clifton, VA User Rating:
Can't wait to try this recipe! Bacon without nitrates - Yeah! After I saw the show I googled "how do I make a cold smoker?" and I got this: virtualweberbullet.com/coldsmoker.html It even mentions Alton.
Delicious
01/14/2006 at 12:26pm
User: tom from milford, DE User Rating:
This home cured and smoked bacon is very inexpensive and very easy to do. I don't plan to buy any more "supermarket" bacon.
cold smoked bacon
01/14/2005 at 07:37pm
User: TERRY from dothan, AL User Rating:
would love to try this just need plans for cold smoker
Awesome - how to make smoker
01/13/2007 at 09:28pm
User: Rick from Groton, CT User Rating:
I made 2 - 2' x 2' x 4'h boxes with luan plywood and 2 x 4 doug fir. Tape the hot box with duct tape on all "loose" edges. On one side of the hot box cut the plywood about 1' up and use duct tape for a hinge. Cut 2 holes in the "hot" box (1 high and 1 low) to the left and right side of the hinged door to accept 4" dryer vent hose. Cut 1 hole in the protien box to accept other end of hose from hot box. Drill a hole in through the protien box about 1 foot down from the top to accept a wooden dowel to hang the bacon. Place a base from an electric hot smoker in the bottom of the hot box. Add wood chunks that have been soaked in water, I reccommend a couple hours(I used mesquite). Install the 2 hoses in the hot box 1 low for the intake and 1 high to the protien box. I found that this box creates a thermal draft from the hot box to the cold, thereby doing away with the need for a fan. Bacon was awesome, the boxes breakdown quick for storage and I'm sure I'll get years of use out of them. Thansk
been hunting.
01/07/2008 at 11:59pm
User: null from null, null User Rating:
i been looking for this recipe since i first saw the show.
Cold Smoker
01/03/2007 at 02:19pm
User: Anonymous User Rating:
A cold smoker is easily made with two cardboard boxes. 1 small, 1 large, 10 feet of flex ducting, single burner electric hot plate, and an old computer fan to draw the smoke to the large box. I like to build a simple wood frame for the large box to hang the meat from and I line both boxes with aluminum foil. WORKS GREAT!!!
ALTON RULEZ
01/02/2007 at 12:27pm
User: cheese from Lee's Summit, CA User Rating:
YOU ARE VERRY COOL