This Smoked Bacon recipe is perfect for your Traeger or other pellet grill. It is incredibly quick, easy, and so delicious! Every slice of bacon is packed with a wonderful smokey flavor that makes it a great addition to breakfast or your favorite bacon containing recipe!
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Why You'll Love This Recipe
- One Ingredient Recipe - You read that right, the only simple ingredient used in this recipe is bacon! You won’t believe the delicious flavor! If you’re looking for a bit of an addition to the bacon, try these Bacon Wrapped Asparagus Bundles or these Healthy Deviled Eggs.
- No Cleanup - One of my favorite reasons for using our pellet grill (besides the incredible taste) is that there is no messy pans to deal with! This recipe is completely mess (and baking sheet) free! Meaning no bacon grease clean up.
- The Smokey Flavor - Smoking bacon takes it to an entirely new level of goodness! If you love a good smoker recipe, definitely try these Smoked Shrimp Skewers and this Smoked Jerk Chicken.
What is Bacon?
It's important to note that this specific recipe is all about smoking store-bought bacon. If you're looking for a homemade bacon try this Applewood Smoked Bacon recipe from the Traeger app.
Ok... now you might be wondering what is homemade bacon and what do you need?
Bacon starts with a slab of fresh pork belly. You then massage it with a mixture of sea salt, coconut sugar (or brown sugar) and black pepper letting those flavors deeply penetrate the meat. This process is a natural curing method, keeping things healthy and free from sodium nitrate and other artificial preservatives.
Once it's spent some quality time marinating (typically a couple of days) in that sweet and spicy goodness, you smoke it to perfection. Voila, you've got yourself some mouthwatering, uncured bacon that's hard to resist!
To save time and effort, however, I love to grab uncured thick-cut bacon from the grocery store or our local butcher and smoke it on the traeger to add a delicious smoke flavor!
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Ingredient Notes
- Uncured Bacon: I always recommend uncured bacon and for this recipe I like to use a thick cut as well. Nature’s Rancher is one of my favorite brands to use for this recipe; they have both an applewood smoked bacon as well as a steakhouse smoked bacon that are delicious.
Uncured Bacon is fairly easy to find and simply means the bacon was not cured using synthetic nitrates and nitrites or other preservatives.
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How To Make This Recipe
- Preheat the traeger grill, or other pellet smoker, to 200F. Once hot, place the sliced bacon directly on the grill grates in a single layer.
- Close the lid and allow the bacon to cook for 15 minutes.
- Increase the temp to 350F, flip the bacon slices and continue to cook for another 20-30 minutes or until the bacon is done and crispy to your liking. (The cook time may vary greatly based on the type of bacon, the thickness of the bacon, as well as your desired doneness).
- If desired, Remove the bacon from the smoker grates and place on a cooling rack or baking rack (or cookie sheet lined with paper towels) to absorb any excess grease for best results. Enjoy!
Recipe Suggestions
- You can cook this traeger bacon at a lower temperature or higher temperature as desired. The lower the temperature, the more smokey flavor you will get though you will have to increase the cooking time. The higher the temperature, the more mild the smoky flavor will be and the bacon will cook more quickly.
- Hickory pellets and apple pellets are great options for this recipe. However, feek free to use whatever you have on hand - we often like to use a blend wood pellets for many of our recipes.
- Use any leftover smoked bacon in these recipes for a delicious meal or appetizer:
Recipe FAQ's
For the best texture, bacon is best consumed immediately, however, cooked bacon can be stored in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 4 days. You can reheat it in the microwave or on a skillet.
While it of course won’t be smoked bacon, you can easily and quickly make bacon in the oven as well. Check out this Oven Bacon post for more info!
You can also use a pit boss, camp chef, big green egg, or any other type of pellet grill to make this pellet smoker bacon as well.
You absolutely can to make clean up easier. You'll definitely want to clean your traeger following this recipe to reduce the risk of a grease fire.
Definitely! If desired, you can use as much bacon as will fit onto your smoker without overcrowding the bacon slices.
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📖 Recipe
Smoked Bacon
Equipment
- Traeger or other pellet smoker
Ingredients
- 1 lb uncured bacon
Instructions
- Preheat the Traeger, or other pellet smoker, to 200F. Once hot, place the sliced bacon directly on the grates of the grill.
- Close the lid and allow the bacon to cook for 15 minutes.
- Increase the temperature to 350F, flip the bacon slices and continue to cook for another 20-30 minutes or until the bacon is done and crispy to your liking. - The cooking time may vary greatly based on the thickness of the bacon, as well as your favorite level of doneness so be sure to keep an eye on it!
- If desired, Remove the bacon from the grill and place on a cooling rack (or plate lined with paper towels) to absorb any excess grease. Enjoy!
Notes
- Uncured Bacon - I always recommend uncured bacon and for this recipe I like to use a thick cut as well.
- Uncured Bacon is fairly easy to find and simply means the bacon was not cured using synthetic nitrates and nitrites or other preservatives.
- Nature’s Rancher is one of my favorite uncured bacon brands to use for this recipe. You can also get uncured, Whole30 compatible bacon from Butcherbox (link in post).
- You can cook the bacon at a lower or higher temperature as desired.
- The lower the temperature, the more smokey flavor you will get though you will have to increase the cooking time.
- The higher the temperature, the more mild the smokey flavor will be and the bacon will cook more quickly.
- Hickory and apple wood pellets are great options for this recipe. We like to use a blend of them both for many of our recipes.
- While this recipe calls for 1 lb of bacon, if desired, you can use as much bacon as will fit onto your smoker without overcrowding the bacon slices.
- While it of course won’t be smoked bacon, you can easily and quickly make bacon in the oven as well. See this Oven Bacon post for more info.
- Bacon is best consumed immediately, however, cooked bacon can be stored in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 4 days. You can reheat it in the microwave or on a skillet.
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