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    Full smokehouse

    Thanks!
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    Raw andouille

    Coming in from the smokehouse. I cold smoked for 5 hours, now it's baking in the oven
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    Raw andouille

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    Hard Cider

    I've thought about bottling it when it's perfect, monitoring closely for the right amount of carbonation and pasteurizing it.
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    Smoked Pork Shoulder

    Wow!!! Looks like a perfect job
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    Full smokehouse

    So hams need 3 weeks of cure, a soak and an equilibration period before smoke. No problem, but does anyone have a clue what bad things will happen if I leave the ham curing on the salt bench while I smoke the bacon? The only thing I can think of is particles sticking to the wet sticky ham, but...
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    Raw andouille

    Thanks!
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    Hard Cider

    What is cold crash?
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    Raw andouille

    I'm planning on mixing in cure #1, letting it sit overnight in the fridge, then a day in the smokehouse before freezing. I do have a rig I can hot smoke in, I'm just lazy. Probably wiser to play it safe and smoke it up to cooked temp though I guess.
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    Hard Cider

    I bought fresh, unpasteurized cider from the Amish. It's fantastic fresh, I figured it would only get better with alcohol. I used ale yeast. I'll try champagne yeast with a gallon.
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    Old fashioned cold smokehouse

    Folk wisdom is that it will flavor the meat (although it might taste like gin, not all bad). I would like to hear from someone who has actual experience with it.
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    looking for dry rub for jerky

    Haha! Keep on topic, point taken. Being new here, I hope advice I give is taken with a grain of salt (pun).
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    Post Picture of Smoker and its Brand/type here

    It does! It has some design flaws- for example: a hot spot where the firebox meets the main body, and it's so ridiculously heavy I sometimes don't use it out of laziness. I started out with an ECB (and wisdom from you guys), and although the new homemade monster looks cooler and has a larger...
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