Venison or duck bacon (Results)

[skidynastar33]

Was goin to try making some duck bacon. Seen a few recipes for venison bacon and thought I would just use the same recipe just use duck instead of deer. Anyone try making ground bacon before? Any tips or thoughts?

[MacAttack]

I found a really good article/webpage for duck bacon and I can not find it! I found this in the meantime...

http://www.thewanderingtable.com/index.php?p=1_60

[The Weazle]

I have found that you need a lot of fat, I mean a-lot! if you want to keep lean ground meat held together for jerky/bacon. My suggestion is to make sausage/pepperoni out of the duck, and maybe buck board bacon out of the bigger deer portions.  I do all of my own butchering and sausage making, and duck is tough to work with because its so low in fat unless you are grinding it and making sausage.

[billythekidrock]

A quick search of the site came up with the following.

Venison bacon
http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,69191.msg848474.html#msg848474

Antelope bacon
http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,74172.msg908871.html#msg908871

[skidynastar33]

I bought some venison bacon cure from ps seasoning and was goin to try this weekend. Will mix the duck with some fatty pork at a 50/50 mix. Maybe a tad more. Will make some Into the bacon and slice it and smoke done into jerky. We will see how it goes.

[skidynastar33]

So did this a month ago and never posted the results. It turned out great!

Ground the duck and pork together ( I didn't have as much duck as I thought so it was 15 pounds pork to 5 pounds duck, next batch will be 15 pounds pork to 10 pounds duck)

Mix in seasonings and make into loaves

Let sit overnight

Smoke for an hour with no smoke
Then 2 hours with smoke
Then 3 hours without till it hits 155.
I gradually increased heat as I went.
And finished mine in the oven to make sure. But I need to invest in a better thermometer.

Then you let the loaves sit overnight in the fridge.

And then you slice them as thin as you want.

Fry and enjoy!

[hollymaster]

  looks delish! 

[ridgefire]

Going to have to try it out sometime

[skidynastar33]

Bumping this up cause someone on here wanted the recipe, not sure what happened to the thread. Just slicing up this years batch. 15lb pork to 10 lb of duck