Dehydrating bacon

[Meatwad]

Is this possible? I have a freezer full of it and a new dehydrator that makes awesome deer jerky, and had the crazy thought of dehydrated bacon.

Combining the two would make instant bacon satisfaction 

[AAJagerX]

There's recipes out there for it.  I've never tried it, but I'd imagine that you'd have to use pretty thick slices to get good results.

[Delirium]

I've had something similar once, they used Portuguese bacon which has more meat and less white fat and is smoked heavily. Great stuff!

[guncrasher]

you can dehydrate anything but fat doesnt taste good dehydrated.  I make a lot of jerky at home, it is awesome.


midway

[danny76]

I was dehydrated once

[Nypsy]

you can dehydrate anything but fat doesnt taste good dehydrated.  I make a lot of jerky at home, it is awesome.


midway

Midway is correct. The fat would turn rancid and ugly quickly.

[Randy1]

Same goes with barbecue.  If you don't smoke it long enough, there can be some bad taste develop in the meat.

BTW  I tried making buckboard bacon.  The one where you cure a boston butt.  That is pretty tasty.

I tried making canadian bacon, it was good but not great.

[Babalonian]

I've had something similar once, they used Portuguese bacon which has more meat and less white fat and is smoked heavily. Great stuff!

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Great idea, for good results you'd need a "better quality" bacon (leaner, and the better the marbleing the better) than what we're accustomed to usualy frying.

But starting with bacon/pork that's already been smoked to then dehydrate is probabley the best idea I think, it's already had a bit of fat "cooked" out of it by the smoking process.

Still, probabley going to be a lot of trial and error -

you can dehydrate anything but fat doesnt taste good dehydrated.  I make a lot of jerky at home, it is awesome.


midway

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Just quit giving the pig water.. sheesh you really fail to see the obvious solutions! 

[FuFiter]

I tried making canadian bacon, it was good but not great.

elaborate please?  I thought it was because of our pork and stuff, what makes it Canadian? 

[Meatwad]

You take a hog........let it drink beer, eat donuts, watch hockey, and then teach it to say "eh" after oink.


Canadian bacon 

[M0nkey_Man]

You take a hog........let it drink beer, eat donuts, watch hockey, and then teach it to say "eh" after oink.


Canadian bacon 

[Pigslilspaz]

You take a hog........let it drink beer, eat donuts, watch hockey, and then teach it to say "eh" after oink.


Canadian bacon 

You forgot the Poutine

[Randy1]

elaborate please?  I thought it was because of our pork and stuff, what makes it Canadian? 

Canadian bacon is a cured pork loin instead of belly meat we use for bacon. 

Our American interpolation of Canadian bacon is different from the bacon you buy in Canada as I understand it.

[icepac]

With these two items, you can acquire all you need to survive the zombiepocalypse.