{"id":135,"date":"2010-02-09T20:01:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T01:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=135"},"modified":"2010-02-10T21:20:49","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T02:20:49","slug":"pork-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=135","title":{"rendered":"Pork Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the day to smoke the ham and bacon I&#8217;d been curing since last Tuesday.\u00a0 The bacon was a dry cure of salt, Prague Powder #1, and brown sugar, and the ham was in a brine with essentially the same ingredients.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/picture-063.jpg\" alt=\"The Cure\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">The Cure.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0I went and chopped a small branch from a wild apple tree growing on the edge of one of our fields and cut a dozen chunks or so about 1\/2 an inch thick for the smoker.\u00a0 The smoker is electric with a cast iron skillet sitting on the burner to put the wood chips in.\u00a0 Makes it easy to control the heat and smoke.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the hams in the smoker.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/picture-071.jpg\" alt=\"smoker\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Unsmoked Hams.<\/p>\n<p>And after smoking.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/picture-073.jpg\" alt=\"Smoked Ham\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Smoked Ham.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0I froze most the ham, but we had a few slices still warm from the smoker.\u00a0 It tastes even better than it looks!<\/p>\n<p>The bacon is cold smoked.\u00a0 I turned the smoker down to just keep the wood chips smoking, but not hot enough to cook the bacon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/picture-075.jpg\" alt=\"Smoked Bacon\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Smoked Bacon.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Little Owen was anxiously awaiting a taste of the bacon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/picture-076.jpg\" title=\"Hungry Owen\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/picture-076.jpg\" title=\"Hungry Owen\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/picture-076.jpg\" alt=\"Hungry Owen\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Hungry Owen.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0He&#8217;s still waiting&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Finally, slicing the bacon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/picture-078.jpg\" alt=\"Slicing\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Slicing<\/p>\n<p>Notice the glass of wine left center.\u00a0 Whenever using incredibly sharp powered slicing tools, plenty of alcohol is the perfect complement!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the day to smoke the ham and bacon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking","category-farming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}