Cracklin Pork Belly
I prepped the skin by scoring and salting, now it's air drying.
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I also scored the bottom and applied my pork rub.
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After air drying in the fridge for about 20 hours.
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It went into the smoker with Cherry at 275°.
I've it on a rack steaming over apple juice.
Here in a few it'll go into a 475° oven to transform the skin into cracklins.
(https://i.imgur.com/YVDLtLU.jpg)
Out of the smoker after 2 hours at 275°
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And into a 475° oven until the skin puffs into delicious cracklins.
And it was in the final couple minutes of that process that I got distracted and burnt the top of them.
(https://i.imgur.com/LiMN137.jpg)
So like burnt toast I tried to save them by scraping the layer of char off and trimming the sides and was somewhat rewarded with some pretty fair cracklin pork belly.
(https://i.imgur.com/gSeZCyu.jpg)
Not bad for almost ruining it.
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Good stuff pork bellies. Dominick
No Worries Chile :D
I've done the same a few times!
No one even noticed ! :o
They ate with reckless abandon!
You have the talent for some good eats...
Keep it up Brother,Your definitely on a roll 8)
Dan