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Well, not scary from a taste point of view but from a size point of view.
With the belly and most of the hocks curing, the leg is looking huge!. The more I look at it, the more I want to break it down a little so that in the end, I have smaller finished hams. (The bone will get used as well - I...
Meat is in the cure, hoping for reasonable weather!
Here's the plan.
I took my beautiful 6lb pork belly out of the freezer, cut it into two equal portions and have started it in the Maple Bacon cure from Charcuterie. I also have started about 4 lbs of hocks curing also with the Charcuterie...
OK - this may be sacrilegious to some but I'm going to ask anyway.
While I like the various skin recipies that have been posted, I love fishing. What I don't like is what I have to pay for pork rind baits and teasers when I've got these beautiful pieces of skin that are the raw product.
Anyone...
Let me see if I have this right because this is a tad confusing.
The various curing salts labeled as #1 (InstaCure #1, Prague Powder #1, etc) are a mixture of Sodium Nitrite 6.25% and Sodium Chloride 93.75%
The various curing salts labeled as #2 (InstaCure #2, Prague Powder #2, etc) are a...
Had a piece of good luck while fluke fishing this week. Got hit with a nice 3 lb bluefish. We promptly bleed it and got it cooled down. Fillets were left with the skin on. Final destination - the smoker!
Once home no time was wasted trimming the fillets and washing off the slime. They got...