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    UMAI fennel salami

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    Newb Venison Question

    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.
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    Binder Question

    I wouldn't use any sort of moisture retention ingredient in making salami. The point is to dry it out, not maintain moisture. Just my .02 cents.
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    Coppa (UMAI)

    Thanks atomic. This is 1 of 2 the other one is still maybe a week or two out and that's the one that was smoked. Should be a fun side by side.
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    Coppa (UMAI)

    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.
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    First time electric smoking

    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***...
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    lamb prosciutto

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    lamb prosciutto

    It will continue to loose weight in the fridge. You may need to vac seal it no?
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    MTQ VS Pink Curing Salt

    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...
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    Beef Bacon

    That's pretty much how this hobby goes.
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    Balogna casings

    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? 
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    Beef Bacon

    Uuuuuhhh I'm pretty this applies.....   Just curious what's it's looking like with the cure and spices loaded on :)
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    Beef Bacon

    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...
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