I have been wanting to try curing my own bacon ever since getting my BGE, this thing smokes sooo good! Thanks to my butcher who gave me his own home made sweet cure, I set about making my first lot of bacon, this process is far from difficult or time consuming, I know, if I didn't have a good source of a cure it would be a little harder but there are places to get the pink salts from off the tinterweb, seriously though this was the best bacon I've ever tasted! If you can, I really recommend that you try to make your own!