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Avoiding temptation! Maybe not a bad idea. As I put those bellies in to smoke I started thinking about the skin....cracklins maybe as Pineywoods wrote.
I save them in the freezer and add them to a pot of beans as needed. Yummmmmmm. Our last local bellies were without the skin - and the bacon just didn't have the same quality as the bacon done with the rinds on.