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I like these stockinettes. They feel real fragile but they are tough. They also seem to be rounding the shape of the ham as it hangs.
I started at midnight last night. I've been having trouble with some apple pellets I bought at Menards. I've microwaved, heated some in a shallow metal pan...
I wasn't sure which color bell pepper to use so I went with red. I didn't get a picture out of the smoker but they were excellent. I'm not a bean eater and liked them!
29 days in the bucket. I'm forming the pellicle in front of a fan while I go to work. Tonight it will go in a stockinette and hung in the smoker with apple smoke. I'm going to bring the IT to 130 and refrigerate. This weekend I will finish the cooking and bring the IT to 145.
If the oil is sticky, it needs more time in the oven at 500. If it is not sticky and just not seasoned evenly, start using it and it will even out over time. A paper coffee filter works good for putting the oil on even and doesn't leave lint.
I'm glad you posted this so well. I had some skin from some pork sides. My mother cut up and fried the cracklins while the rest of the family was making sausage but she only went to the tooth breaker stage. Nobody here knew any better. I'll remember this post and will be looking harder at...
I mixed a gallon of Pop's brine and injected one of the hind hams from my pig. I injected along the bones and joints with a pointed injector tip. After that I switched to a broadcast tip and pumped brine into the rest of the ham. The ham was 24lbs so it is a big piece of meat to cure whole so I...