Venison and goose bacon

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Ron Kulas
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Venison and goose bacon

#1 Post by Ron Kulas »

Bacon is the candy of meats. Who doesn't love bacon? I received a variety of products from Frisco spices to evaluate. Included was the spices to make ground and reshaped bacon from ground meat so Im making a couple batches of the hickory bacon.

Each packet makes 10 pounds of bacon so I am making 10 pounds of goose bacon and 2, 10 pound batches of venison bacon.

The instructions on that packet are pretty straight forward. Mix 5 pounds of goose, duck, deer, elk, moose, bear, etc with 5 pounds of fatty pork or Frisco's course ground pork jowl.

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The first batch is venison and pork. The second batch is goose and pork. Im using some pork jowl that I cubed up as well as some of the ground jowl from Friso Spices. The pic below is with the deep purple goose meat on the right.

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Im using a 3/8 grinder plate.

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The instructions don't mention mixing the spices with a little water but I find I get more even distribution of spices and avoid over-spiced areas buy adding a bit of water. In this case I use 1/3 cup of cold water.

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After 10 minutes of mixing. Lots of mixing is required to bind the meat and spices/cure so it holds together when its sliced and fried.

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For consistent shape/thickness I using a 9 x 13 cake pan and an 8 x 8 pan lined with waxed freezer paper. I don't like to place salted/cured meat against metal and the paper makes it easier to remover the meat from the pan. The 10 pound batch fills both pans nicely.

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Then all 30 pounds of bacon are punched down to remove any air pockets and then covered with plastic wrap and placed in the cooler overnight to cure and take shape.

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The next morning I preheat the smoker to 110F and place the pan shaped "slabs" of bacon on racks for smoking.

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The first hour and a half will preheat the meat without smoke. The smoker vents will be full open.

Then I increase the temp to 120F and add some large chunk hickory to the fire box and close the vents half way and smoke for 3 hours.

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The temp is increased to 150F for a couple more hours and then the temp is increased to 170F until the internal temp of the meat reaches 140F. The meat takes on a deep smokey amber look.

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The meat is removed from the smoker and allowed to cool to room temperature and then removed to the cooler.

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After a night in the cooler, its time to slice it up and fry to check out the grinds, distribution and flavor.

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Both the goose and venison bacon are a smash hit. Perfectly seasoned and just enough hickory smoke. I can see a lot of BLT sammies in my future.

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The bacon is then packaged in slightly less than 1 pound packages using the home butcher's favorite tool, a vacuum sealer.

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The total reward for my efforts.

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Frisco Spices Hickory Bacon seasoning is a real winner. Its a great way to use trimmings from any number of species of game animals. If you have a grinder and smoker, give it a try.
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Re: Venison and goose bacon

#2 Post by Captainkirk »

I don't, but I might....
What kind of smoker is that? Looks pretty large!
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Re: Venison and goose bacon

#3 Post by Carpdaddy »

Make a fellers tongue slap his brains out! Man my mouth is watering, juz how fur up da holler you live? I gotta bad hankering to visit you.

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Re: Venison and goose bacon

#4 Post by Ron Kulas »

Captainkirk wrote:I don't, but I might....
What kind of smoker is that? Looks pretty large!
That is a homemade. I can post the build along at some point. It only hold 150 lbs of meat. I ought to have made it bigger.
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Re: Venison and goose bacon

#5 Post by Captainkirk »

Stay Sharp wrote: That is a homemade. I can post the build along at some point.
Please do!
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Re: Venison and goose bacon

#6 Post by Carpdaddy »

I second the motion. Love to see that also.

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Re: Venison and goose bacon

#7 Post by Graps »

Yumm !
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Margly
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Re: Venison and goose bacon

#8 Post by Margly »

Looks great and thanks for the takealong :)
Do you fry it in a pan before eating?
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Re: Venison and goose bacon

#9 Post by Ron Kulas »

Yup1, Just like regular bacon. Im having a BLT for supper.
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Re: Venison and goose bacon

#10 Post by Margly »

Stay Sharp wrote:Yup1, Just like regular bacon. Im having a BLT for supper.
Thanks!
Going to try this :)
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