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Pineywoods is spot on. I've just done my first bacon and had the same issue of being too salty after curing. I submerged my bacon in clean cold water and let soak in the fridge for an hour and it really does make a difference.
Pete
After sitting in the fridge overnight to form the pellicle it went into the smoker for 12 hours. Everything seems to have worked out great, will be posting some pics over the weekend.
I haven't made sausage yet so can't safely answer whether you should try hanging any but my guess is that if you're going to hang sausage for any amount of time (or any meat for that matter) to allow the flavours to develop you would need to have used cure in your recipe to prevent bacteria...
Hi all. I wanted to get some opinions on a minimum curing time for my first attempt at making bacon. I've currently got two lots of belly bacon curing (approx 1" thick, rind on); one using pops' brine recipe, and the other a dry cure using Todds' dry cure recipe.
The original plan was to let...
Welcome Gasbag,
It's good to see another Aussie on here, especially another from Adelaide! Have not been steered wrong yet by anyone on this site!
Happy smoking,
Pete
We're in the middle of summer over here and we're getting regular temps of 90-98 deg F so when my AMNPS arrives I might try that with no other heat source. Thanks for the tips!
Pete
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