slight green tinge in the fat of a cured belly

  • Some of the links on this forum allow SMF, at no cost to you, to earn a small commission when you click through and make a purchase. Let me know if you have any questions about this.
SMF is reader-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

catzcradle

ImpEx - Users Awaiting Email Confirmation
Original poster
I'm going on my third year of making my own bacon. I use a dry cure from high mountain seasonings that has worked great for me since the beginning.  I recently scored some great Hampshire pork bellies, and the first belly finished it's 7 days and is now soaking for an hour. However, one of the belly chunks has a very slight green tinge in the fat around one of the corners.  There is no smell, nor was there any sliminess.  I'm quite careful with the cure measurements.  This is the first time using heritage pork belly.  

Anything I should be worried about?  I'll do a fry test in an hour to see if I can taste anything off.  My concern is I just put the other three bellies into cure and bagged them up for 7 days.  I saw one article talking about nitrite burn.
 
It really is feignt, you can see it in the left slap on the edge, and on the main slab top left.  These were white when they went in the cure.   On the other hand the fry test seems fine.  One thing different on these is there was silverskin still on some of the bellies.I took most of it off.  Forming pellicle now.


rfectly white
 
I know what it is..... It's the rainbow effect or something like that.... The light bending off of the fats/oils from the belly.. It's probably an iridescent sheen looking mirage.... I've seen it when I slice bacon and the light is just right... It's still good to eat....

Dave
 
Looks like very minor nitrite burn from here....nothing to worry about.


~Martin
yeahthat.gif


Bear
 
Last edited:
SmokingMeatForums.com is reader supported and as an Amazon Associate, we may earn commissions from qualifying purchases.

Latest posts

Hot Threads

Clicky