Name: Chipotle Bacon
Yield: Makes about 3½ pounds (1.6 kg)
Ingredients: 1 (7-ounce/198-g) can chipotles in adobo, pureed; ¼ cup (55 g) Chipotle Rub; 1 (5-pound/2.3-kg) pork belly, skin removed and saved for another use (see, step 2); Soaked and drained apple, hickory, or cherry wood chips or chunks, or pellets or sawdust (amount recommended by your smoker manufacturer); 2 teaspoons pink curing salt (aka Instacure #1); ½ cup (100 g) sugar; 1 cup (180 g) Diamond Crystal kosher salt

Preparation info

Makes about
3½ pounds

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Bacon Bible

By Peter Sherman and Stephanie Banyas

Published 2019

About

Smoke on smoke on smoke, and I love it. This is great served alongside eggs on a BLT with avocado or, my favorite, rolled in soft tortillas for my chipotle bacon tacos.

Ingredients

1 cup (180 g) Diamond Crystal kosher salt
2 teaspoons pink curing salt (a

Method

Whisk together the kosher salt, pink salt, sugar, chipotles, and 12 cups (2.8 L) water in a large food-safe container with a tight-fitting lid. Add the pork belly and make sure it stays submerged. I use a

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