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You typically want to have a 20-30% meat to fat ratio. I'll be making venison kabanosi sticks with 21mm casings tonight using straight pork fat and ground venison.
Okie dokie. So one of these finally got to 30% weight loss yesterday so I pulled it. It looks great. I'll be vacuum sealing and aging it a bit in the fridge before I slice it up thin.
1. Do you have to soak the wood chips first? If so, how long. **Never soak chips***
2. Can I put in three slabs of brisket at the same time- one in each rack? ***Fit whatever you can fit. But depending on which MES you've got you may need not be able to fit a whole packer. In a 40 you would***...
If you want to use Cure #1 instead of TQ, you'll add .25% of the total meat/fat weight in Cure #1. When it comes to salt, you're going to get a difference in preference of the final product. The range usually being 2.5-3.0 % of the total weight. I'm usually adding 2.75% to my stuff and I've been...
A suggestion would be to go somewhere local that might be making their own stuff and see about getting one off of them. Otherwise, you could make a bologna loaf instead?
Bear, when curing beef and warm smoking (not cooking), I don't see that as dried beef. I agree that it won't taste like bacon....it's beef. But it will have a cured smoked flavor along with whatever seasonings were used in the cure and before going into the smoker. If he doesn't cook to IT when...