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  1. pongo

    this time I may loose some friends...

    [if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:DoNotOptimizeForBrowser/> </w:WordDocument></xml><![endif] Great help... YES - the measurements are extremely unclear - especially if you're talking about a "cup". For a novice, it's a barrier, just as many...
  2. meat curing spices.JPG

    meat curing spices.JPG

  3. this time I may loose some friends...

    this time I may loose some friends...

  4. pongo

    this time I may loose some friends...

    [if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:DocumentProperties> <o:Author>Miroslaw Stanuszek</o:Author> <o:Version>9.2720</o:Version> </o:DocumentProperties></xml><![endif] But my message is real important for so many devoted home cooks and apprentice meat cure experts - I have to do it! How do you follow a...
  5. curing and fermenting 400.JPG

    curing and fermenting 400.JPG

  6. pongo

    Bündnerfleisch and Appenzeller Mostbröckli - Home made!

    Bündnerfleisch: This is a very popular Swiss meat specialty, a almost secret tradition that goes back to the Middle Ages. Choice cuts of beef are cured in small villages in the beautiful Swiss mountains and hung up to dry in the air until an edible mold forms on the drying meat to give them a...
  7. pork loin lonzino beef tender 300.JPG

    pork loin lonzino beef tender 300.JPG

  8. air cured dried beef meat 300.JPG

    air cured dried beef meat 300.JPG

  9. pongo

    cure misshap

    My compliments Sawyer, you figured it out at the right time! The Nitrate in cure# 2 will help for long storage. In Italy they call it Capicola or Capicollo; they keep that thing for a couple of weeks in the fermentation chamber at [if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View>...
  10. pongo

    How did you come up with your screen name?

    [if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:DoNotOptimizeForBrowser/> </w:WordDocument></xml><![endif] A long time ago I was a young Boy Scout member in Switzerland. What a new and exciting world! And there where also all the big guys, they where...
  11. Mountain cured & cold smoked Beef Eye of Round

    Mountain cured & cold smoked Beef Eye of Round

  12. pongo

    Mountain cured & cold smoked Beef Eye of Round

    [if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:DoNotOptimizeForBrowser/> </w:WordDocument></xml><![endif] I use a conical burr grinder for the spices and process all spices and curing salt together at the correct weight. The roast was coated with Morton...
  13. _Appenzeller Mostbröckli ct.JPG

    _Appenzeller Mostbröckli ct.JPG

  14. _curing chamber beef and coppa 02.JPG

    _curing chamber beef and coppa 02.JPG

  15. pongo

    A friendly hello from South West Georgia...

    [if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:DoNotOptimizeForBrowser/> </w:WordDocument></xml><![endif] I grow up in the Swiss mountains in the North-East part of Switzerland, close to Germany and Austria (and just a hundred miles North of Italy). I...
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