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Looks like typical oxidation to me. While nitrite burn can happen, it’s very difficult for it to happen at 0.25% (156ppm) on whole muscle. Remember that dry cured whole muscle can go as high as 625ppm nitrite. That’s why those cures are applied in about 3 different stages. The 0.25% is maximum...
Minimum wage is a political creation.
Actually the idea is to learn an actual skill and or become educated. In that the minimum wage doesn’t apply because it’s never offered there as a starting wage. This isn’t difficult.
When I get emails from “smoking-meat.com” they are always labeled “Jeff Phillips” not smoking meat. So the label in your inbox would or should tell a lot. All emails in my box from here are labeled “Smokingmeatforum”
I’ll post you a link to what I made. The key when I made the cocktail was the Tequila lime marinade on the shrimp. I was running the kettle 225-250 with coals banked for indirect cook. I placed a chunk of apple wood on the coals then put the shrimp on indirect closed the lid for just a few...
Currently I’m buying whole chicken, pork butts and any other sub primal I see priced right. I grind my own meat from that, I have a knife and I cut my own steaks. Just remember, the more times a butcher touches any meat the more expensive the meat. Shoulders and clods are good to watch for...