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Curing American Guinea Hog bacon

 
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So this is attempt 2 at home curing bacon. We salted and smoked this belly then froze it to firm it up for cutting.

Too much salt. The smokiness was good though.

Not pictured are the mass amounts of extra fat we cut off this thing before slicing it into bacon.
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