Canadian Bacon/Cottage Ham in MES

ndwildbill

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• Oct 6, 2016

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Cured a piece of pork loin in Pop's brine for about 2 weeks.  Took it out of the brine, rinsed well, then into the fridge overnight to dry and start forming the pellicle.

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• Oct 6, 2016

Out of the fridge, feeling sticky

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• Oct 6, 2016

Bagged up ready to go in the MES.  Anybody know where I can get a small quantity of smaller bags?

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• Oct 6, 2016

MES warmed up 140, ready to go.  Using a mix of apple and pecan pellets in AMAZN.

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• Oct 6, 2016

TBS coming out at 142 degrees.  Left at this temp for 2 hours, then bumped up to 150 for two hours, then up to 200 to finish to IT of 145.

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• Oct 6, 2016

Money Shot!!  Dad Gum that's some good eatin'!!

Thanks for lookin'...

 

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crankybuzzard

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Those little mini hams are hard to beat!  I make them quite often and I have a hard time keeping up with the demand from family for them.

Looks like Dave has you set for bags.

 

cksteele

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• Oct 6, 2016

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nice up here in Canada  we call it peameal bacon  and  its usually dusted in cornmeal so tasty that looks great well done !

 

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• Oct 7, 2016

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It looks delicious!

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Looks tasty!

 

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Looks great! Nice job!

 

ndwildbill

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Thanks for the kind comments, and the info on the bags!  Looks like relatives might be getting mini hams for Christmas!

 

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Great mini hams. You're going to have a lot of happy relatives.

I can't get over the fact that you have a MES that actually seems to have an accurate temp controller!!!!! That's very rare.

Gary

 

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GaryHibbert said:

Great mini hams. You're going to have a lot of happy relatives.

I can't get over the fact that you have a MES that actually seems to have an accurate temp controller!!!!! That's very rare.

Gary

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Thanks Gary...Sometimes you get lucky with the MES temp controller.  I've found that if I clean off the MES temp sensor after every smoke, it tends to run pretty accurate.  If I let the sensor get built up with all kinds of black stuff, all bets are off.

 

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Beautiful hams!

Disco