roger williams
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- Jun 8, 2014
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where can iget some of these mesquite woodchips i have home in caloocan in kiingstown would love to cook with some . im in arizona at the moment but heading there in august . great aricle you have there
Hello I just joined and would love ot know where you are located so I can drop by and buy some meats,.I would also like ot ask what wood you use for smoking your meats here in the Philippines
Hello, sorta new to smoking, started home business making bacon and baking cakes and cookies. Living in the philippines is difficult to source many items, but with persistence i have found the essentials at least. I built a custom smoker/grill out of hollow blocks and tubular as well as angular steel, with stainless steel racks. The smoker is presently going through and expansion to allow for smoking up to maybe 100 kilos(220 pounds) of bacon at one time. That may sound a little excessive but in the first month of business i was making 15 kilos a batch and it wouldn't last a day after i packaged it. So i have decided to ramp it up a bit and see if i can really keep up with the demand. I will have to also get more refrigerated space it seems. The smoker is about 6 feet tall, by maybe 7 feet wide and 32 inches back to front, I use racks and just turn the bacon slabs on the side. i also precut my slabs into four inch wide slabs for ease of removal of skin after smoking and ease of using in the slicer. i found a source of charbroil applewood chunks and chips, also mesquite and tabasco chips, there is whisky barrel and jack daniels whiskey barrel also available but haven't tried those last two yet. I cure with brown sugar, noniodized rockseasalt and pink salt at 3 percent nitrite. usually a five day cure then a four to six hour pellicle formation depending on the humidity, with six to eight hours of cold smoking less than 95 degrees f using mainly apple wood and a little mesquite and white oak thrown in to round everything out. When i do get more refrigeration i will be expanding to hams and turkey deli meat, may do a little roast beef just to try it out pretty soon. Anyone in the neighborhood hit me up and will be happy to answer any questions you may have that i can.
Hello I just joined and would love ot know where you are located so I can drop by and buy some meats,.I would also like ot ask what wood you use for smoking your meats here in the Philippines
I will drop by one of these days when I get enough courage to get through the traffic going there :)
Roy,
an update, we have recently started a food stall at Sidcor Sunday market located near centris station in quezon city, we operate from 6 am to 1pm every sunday. I have my smoked ribs and mashed potatoes every weekend, smoked roast beef, bacon when its in stock, but it goes so fast and best to reserve ahead of time. I also offer some of the best cupcakes you have ever had even if you don't have a sweettooth these are pretty damn good, and i smoked some pecans and walnuts the pecans for a pecan pie and walnuts for carrot cake. Also offer SunBrewed Iced tea which seems like a fairly new concept here as people are going kinda crazy over it. If you get a chance stop on by, introduce yourself and remind me you saw me on smoking meat forum and i will likely let you have a free sample of the ribs. hope to see you there and will update you if we start up somewhere else also.