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I ended up cold smoking after 8-9 days of curing. I cold smoked it for 4 nights (wrapping and refrigerating during the day) got me close to a 30% reduction in weight.

Well I figured I'd post my results. This turned out exactly like I was hoping. This is essentially bresaola only cold smoked to desired weight reduction.

Night time temps right now are consistently in the 50's where I'm at so I'm guessing I'll be close to 70's?

I was thinking of putting flexible (metal) dryer vent over my pellet smokers chimney and running it into a vault smoker. Do you see any potential issues with this?

So far I've been following this exact recipe. I have two 1lb pieces of backstrap curing right now (since Sunday night). I'm planning to do one exactly as this recipe reads and with the other I plan to cold smoke at night and put in the fridge during the day repeating that for a few days for...

Just about an inch or so. Would be closer to 2" if I tied it but as it sits in my fridge curing it's flattened out.

The more research I've done I feel like what I had was dried venison (possibly cold smoked until dry). No way was it brought to a certain temp.

Those slices were the finished product. Unlike anything I've ever had.

Yes, this is one of my favorite ways to cook backstrap. Just looking for more snack type preserved options. I had some very similar to the link I attached and it was amazing.

https://www.butterwouldntmelt.com/2018/03/29/cold-smoked-venison-muntjac-back-strap-steaks/ I was planning on using this recipe because the cold smoked backstraps I'm trying to recreate looked exactly like these. I was surprised to see the short cure time of 90 minutes. Any thoughts on this?

Awesome, thank you!

I'm planning on cold smoking venison backstrap. I'm definitely going to cure it but not quite sure how long to cure or smoke. From what I've researched so far I'm thinking of doing a dry cure of sea salt and sugar for a few hours then cold smoke for 12 hours or so. Just hoping to get some...

Does anyone have a good cold smoked venison backstrap recipe? I'd like to cold smoke some backstraps and I really don't know where to start. My plan is to route the smoke of my pellet smoker to a vault type smoker yo produce the cold smoke. I'm not sure how long to smoke or cure and looking...