How to Make Smoked Bacon

Methods/Steps

1

First, make 2 triangles using 6 sticks or tree branches. Place them on each side. Then place a cross piece of wood between the two tripods.

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2

Be careful, the tripods should be stable and the sticks and ropes used to make them should be sturdy. The crosspiece in the center should also be sturdy. The height of the cross wood is about 1 meter. This makes it easy to maneuver.

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3

After the stand is built, you can hang the meat with lanyard on the cross log. If the crosspiece is thicker, two meat lanyards can be attached together.

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4

After the meat has been placed, place some dry firewood underneath the log where the meat is hanging. Keep a number of cypress branches and leaves beside it; only the smoke produced by the burning of such cypress branches and leaves is non-toxic.

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5

Finally, light the dry firewood and place the cypress branches and leaves on the burning firewood slowly, so as not to extinguish the fire and to burn a lot of smoke, and so as to smoke all the hanging meat. Note that the ash on top is almost non-toxic, so don't be alarmed.

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6

Smoke for about 1 hour using cypress branches and leaves with someone tending the fire. If possible, you can hang the meat indoors to smoke it, which prevents animals such as cats from taking a bite out of it. You can also use a slow fire, and two or three smoking times to see the surface shrink to dryness. Meat made by smoking this way is preferable.

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Note

Note that you must use the twigs and leaves of cypress trees for smoking.

Note that the meat must be from the winter month of the lunar calendar.