Venison Bacon

[billythekidrock]

Awhile back I thought I would try making venison bacon so I bought the spice kit from Cabela’s for a rainy day. Today wasn’t so rainy, but I had time so I gave it a shot. The kit comes with enough seasoning and cure for 25 lbs of meat but I didn’t want to do such a large batch just incase I didn’t like it. So I thawed out 6 lbs of burger and did a quarter batch for starters.

It is pretty simple.
1. Add a little water to the spice and cure then mix thoroughly.

2. Place wax paper in a pan and pack meat evenly. I chilled it in the freezer for 3 hours before placing in the smoker.

3. I heated the smoker to 200 degrees and added some alder chips for smoke.

4. I smoked it until it had an internal temp of 145 degrees and then cooled it for a bit in the freezer.



I then cut it into 4 quarters and sliced up 1 quarter. I will let the other quarters cool and slice them tomorrow after work.



It didn’t turn out too bad. We only tried the 3 pieces but tomorrow I will give it a real taste test and decide if I am going to use the rest of the kit.

[Jason]

Looks great!  Venison Spam 

[carpsniperg2]

Intresting, I never would have thought of that. Thanks for sharing

[turkey buster]

it does look good, let us know tomorow

[billythekidrock]

Looks great!  Venison Spam 

Interesting that you would say that as I felt it tasted like a cross between bacon and spam.

[dogtuk]

this stuff makes a great Jerky just cure the same way you did the bacon and slice and smoke like jerky and eat it is better that way then the bacon

[Huntbear]

Looks pretty good to me.. I may have to try my hand at making some.

 

[Bigshooter]

Looks great!  Venison Spam 

As soon as I saw the three pieces in the pan that's what popped into my head.  Spam not bacon.

[billythekidrock]

this stuff makes a great Jerky just cure the same way you did the bacon and slice and smoke like jerky and eat it is better that way then the bacon

I may try that with half of it this afternoon. Slice and smoke a bit more.

[huntlakewood]

Wow I was wondering if you could make BBB out of a Venison roast. I wonder how it would taste if you did that using the breakfast sausage seasoning. I am going to have to try that next time I get a deer.

[NRA4LIFE]

A buddy of my dad's made this and I thought it was great.  Did you mix any pork or beef in with the venison?  If so, how much?

[dogtuk]

Gary
I did a 50/50 venison/porkbutt when I did it

[billythekidrock]

A buddy of my dad's made this and I thought it was great.  Did you mix any pork or beef in with the venison?  If so, how much?

I thawed out some elk burger that was probably 20% or less porkbutt.

[billythekidrock]

To finish this up, I took most of the remaining ¾ and put it back in the smoker for jerky. I sprinkled Johnny’s Garlic on one rack and left the top rack as is. After a half hour I took out the lower rack to cool and moved the upper rack to the bottom for another half hour.



The garlic actually turned out really good as jerky, while I thought the other was kind of bland. Plus it was a lot drier since I left it in an extra half hour.

What I couldn’t fit on the smoker racks, I fried like bacon. I was really happy with it and my son couldn’t stop eating it as well.

I then made a BLT minus the L & T.



I then made another one (with a fried egg) for the next days lunch. It worked out pretty good so I am sure I will use the rest of the spice package. Probably as bacon, but maybe a little as garlic jerky. I might even make some garlic bacon.

[Hornseeker]

Thats a good idea...I will keep that in mind as the year goes on here and I try to get creative with the deer and elk in the freezer!!!