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Curing 200+ pounds of pork 3 different ways. Dry cure, wet cure and salt only cure.
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Let me know when and where.Johns Creek, GA - LBGE and a some stuff
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tfhanson said:Let me know when and where.
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SGH said:tfhanson said:Let me know when and where.Johns Creek, GA - LBGE and a some stuff
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this post has me drooling for a smoked cured shoulder dinner
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fishlessman said:this post has me drooling for a smoked cured shoulder dinner
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fishlessman said:this post has me drooling for a smoked cured shoulder dinner
I was drooling after they knocked it downSteve
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Brother Scottie- this is one thing that I never got to learn from my grandfather who was a hog farmer in Kentucky.
I do remember that we would get a whole ham out of the old barn at thanksgiving and bring it home to Atlanta. It typically rode between my sister and me in the backseat!
We'd hand it in the crawl space until Christmas when we'd drag it up and start cooking away! Good times!
I'd love to get truly fresh meat from my "dirty hippy market" that just emailed my on a cow butchering seminar they are doing next month!!! SWMBO wasn't too interested!
Memory lane, my friend! Keep it rolling!!!LBGE #19 from North GA Eggfest, 2014
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DaveRichardson said:Memory lane, my friend!
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Cutting some fresh pork chops. These ain't going in the cure. Straight from pig to plate my long haired friend
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Nice Scottie.
Interesting fact: Curing salt - sodium nitrite, used to cure pork is actually extremely toxic to pigs if they eat it. It's used to control, through baiting, wild pig populations that are out of control.
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nolaegghead said:Nice Scottie.
Interesting fact: Curing salt - sodium nitrite, used to cure pork is actually extremely toxic to pigs if they eat it. It's used to control, through baiting, wild pig populations that are out of control.Location- Just "this side" of Biloxi, Ms.
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Fellows, tomorrow was the original planned day to pull this meat from the cure and cold smoke it in the smoke house. However due to very high temps and 95%+ humidity everyday, it will be Wednesday at the earliest. The meat is just not tightening up yet.
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@SGH thanks for sharing all you do. So coolLBGE and Primo XL Plano TX All right all right alllll riight
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Angus1978 said:@SGH thanks for sharing all you do. So cool
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Wow this thread and the other with the hogs being butchered brings back some fond memories. We used to butcher our own hogs and cure them them using slat and a smoke house my dad built. I would always get busted going in the smoke house and eating the bacon right out of the salt box. Man that was good.
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I would always get busted going in the smoke house and eating the bacon right out of the salt box.Location- Just "this side" of Biloxi, Ms.
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The temp is getting right, just need the humidity to drop 5-10 percent. A curist is akin to a farmer, both are always at the mercy of the weather.
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SGH said:The temp is getting right, just need the humidity to drop 5-10 percent. A curist is akin to a farmer, both are always at the mercy of the weather.
Scottie, this weather has been unbelievable, I'm sure the same for you. Hoping your hogs are happily cured and you can hang them soon.Sandy Springs & Dawsonville Ga -
bgebrent said:Scottie, this weather has been unbelievable, I'm sure the same for you. Hoping your hogs are happily cured and you can hang them soon.
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First it was my dad, then my brother, then Walter Payton. but now my new hero is SGH! Way to go brothaman on those hogs!
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Darby_Crenshaw said:Good old italian proscuttio (as in, typical small prodcition, farmhouse curing, before production optimized for commercial quality control) was just to simply bury in salt and stack another on top, add salt, add another, etc. (the stacking is why it ended up flattened, and also squeezed out water)
This was all done at room temp
this is why i have to laugh at the "my fire went out" butt posts
the french too, farmhouses, pre refrigeration, kept a perpetual crock of brine. You'd throw the meat in it and take it out when you needed it. It had NOTHING to do with flavor (initially). It was just where you stored meat
herbs were added eventually. Sugar too (sugar is a very recent thing. Rare until mid 1700s)
heck. There are piles of mammoth bones sometimes found under rocks. These were called "meat caches". Weight down the meat with stones and the water itself was a relative improvement for storing meat.
Short step from that to salt water
in fact, gravlax is from 'grav' meaning grave. What do you do with a lot of fish after a successful catch? Bury it in the sand just above high water.
They had no idea the salt in the sand was curing the meat. It just did. At ambient temps
we have no good reason to be afraid of our food
i'll say again (until i am blue in the face), it's arguably safer to eat pork raw than it is to eat a tomato or spinach raw
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Darby_Crenshaw said:Nothing sneaks by you!
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I scanned the book rapidly last night. First dumb question (food for thought) ... most recipes mention temperature and humidity, how did our forefathers measure them?
Here in the GWN I have four cold places at my disposal: unheated garage, unheated enclosed front porch, garden shed, basement cantina.canuckland -
Canugghead said:most recipes mention temperature and humidity, how did our forefathers measure them?
but it is also something passed down from father to son, and learned empirically, through experience.
when you write a book for a modern audience, you write down exact things.
but grampa didn't need that bullsh!t. day's not too hot, good to go
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@Darby_Crenshaw Thanks for your insight as always.
Agree 100% about the seasonal part. My mom used to make 'lap cheong' (chinese sausage) only in the Indian winter, she said you need the 'northern wind' and would literally hang them out on clothesline to cure.
Even here in the frozen GWN, regular supermarkets have special deals on whole legs and NY shoulders only during 'sausage making season'. Some folks would not buy a house without a large cantina in the basement.
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