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New Batch this week
Spending a half hour doing calculations on all the recipe quantities - translating everything to grams, etc. Most helpful to do this at a table before you have meat stuff everywhere. -
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New Batch this week
Then I need a better hand stuffer. 1-2 pounds is a lot for the little plastic one I currently have on hand. -
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New Batch this week
I know what you mean - I had the bowl, knife, lid, all in the deep freezer, (negative 7 F) - and the meat batches in the freezer for pan hour or so each - that helped mitigate any smearing and allowed me to mix it all together evenly. In fact, after I mixed spices etc, I ran it back through the... -
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New Batch this week
This stuffer leaves almost a pound or two of meat mix at the end- I have to use the hand stuffer to complete - I need to find a better way. -
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New Batch this week
Casings - I've decided I only liked the tied and sewn casings. Ended up getting rid of the rest of them, besides the few I needed to complete today's work. -
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New Batch this week
Big day of making sausage here in beautiful South Carolina. -
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New Batch this week
Blending 2.4% salt on all 5 batches. Trying to keep 20-30% fat content across all batches as well. These are cubed and into the walk in overnight to develop myosin. Tomorrow morning will go in the bowl chopper. -
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New Batch this week
Here we go this week on a new batch of a few recipes and meats. -
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Meat sourcing -
I'm doing three batches this coming Monday and Tuesday - I feel like I always need all the help I can get so I try to find really good meat for the event. I purchased some online meats to try.. https://www.marbleridgefarms.com/pages/why-mangalitsa Just bought pork steaks (sliced shoulder)... -
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Curing Chamber Modification
All my parts have arrived to control humidity etc - installing with my handyman Monday and will be putting product in on Wednesday. What do you clean your chambers with between cures? -
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What went wrong with this batch?
Got it - I didn't understand before now that too high of humidity was bad. -
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What went wrong with this batch?
Thanks - I bought a new True brand cabinet last year right before this batch and had my electrical modify it to control humidity with the wired in humidifier. the fan runs all the time. -
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What went wrong with this batch?
Wow - I figured that's what the refrigerated cabinet with the fan running all the time did by nature (is take humidity out) - I've had good success over the past 2 years or so with 6 batch's so I feel like my system isn't. completely flawed. this batch just got added in the end of my marathon of... -
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What went wrong with this batch?
well crud- Ok I'll take your advise and chunk it today. Thanks so much for the quick reply. I've got a humidifier and controller on it to turn it off but perhaps it wasn't working right. I've got a secondary humidification analog gauge for back up and it was checked often in the beginning, not... -
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What went wrong with this batch?
alright hope everyone is having a good Monday. I'm rolling these sausages in one layer of cheese cloth, tying each end to hang, and placing in the curing cabinet again, a different set of cabinets I originally had that are the steak ager ones with humidification. For this time, I'm planning to... -
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What went wrong with this batch?
Thanks again - very much - The biggest problem is it's been year ago and I just don't remember much of what I used. Conversely, it appears to be only these large diameter ones, (which is all that was left in the fridge), so I'm questioning perhaps the beef bung casings perhaps. I (think) I... -
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What went wrong with this batch?
Thanks guys - really appreciate the help! I'll report back on Monday and take a picture of a cross section on a couple. -
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What went wrong with this batch?
I know it's a cardinal sin but I can't find the recipe I used - I hired a full time chef for the house and he reorganized my pantry and documents etc are all who knows where. First world problems I guess but coming back into the game a year later makes it hard to figure out. That's why I...
