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  1. canadianbacon

    Getting rid of the fatty mess with ground beef jerky.

    I found that heating it in the oven at 170deg with the door open for 20 min hardens it and drains lots of fat so it can hit the racks with no mesh and less mess. You can flip it again for another 10  to get rid of even more. I made a marinade with soy, warsh,  franks hot 1/3 each. 1 tsp pepper...
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    Any Ideas how to make me Big Chief smoker more efficient?

    Ohhhhh man thats sick. Ima head to value village and look for somthing like this i can use! maybe use the old element then for a chesse smoker
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    Homebrewers Roll-Call

    I just started brewing, I started from scratch tho, No kits, I like doing everything from scratch, know whats going in my stuff and pick it my self. Kinda like my dry rubs and brines lol... Im making hard cider right now. One day.... maybe ill play in the hillbilly arts of distilling...
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    First time smoking chesse with pics.

    It is super good stuff. So much better then it would be plain. i want to smoke some hamburgers and bacon and make a ultimate smoked burger lol
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    Whats your favorit scotch, rye, whisky or burbon.

    I just bought a bottle of Glenfiddich 12 yr because it came with free whisky stones and its pretty good stuff. Sipping it right now.
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    Whats your favorit scotch, rye, whisky or burbon.

    Red stag is good. Abit to sweet for me straight tho
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    Whats your favorit scotch, rye, whisky or burbon.

    Whats your favorit brand? i decided to pick up a bottle of johnie walker double black. Its greatt
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    Dry rub VS brine for jerky? With no cure.

    Wouldn't the vinegar in the marinade kill surface bacteria tho? I think that's the basic concept of drying bitlong. 
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    Pickle juice a cheap substitute for Worcestershire sauce...

    So I was looking at the ingredients and Worcestershire sauce and It seems so be pretty similar to pickle juice. Worcestershire    Pickle Juice is knows to contain cloves, salt sugar vinegar and of course pickles.  I'm going to be adding pickle juice in my batch of jerky instead of...
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    Jerky shrinkge

    When i use lean i put it in parchment paper and i get a scary amount of fat leakege. Therefor i spend the extra moneny on extra lean and dab up fat as i see it with paper towel. There is a big % differnce from lean and extra lean i bought. Aslo. The extra lean tasted better to me and was easyer...
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    First time smoking chesse with pics.

    I'm going to hit cosco up next weekend and pick up some chedder or monterey jack ( my favorite ) . I wonder why smoked cheese dosen't get hard while it smokes like when you leave normal cheese out in the fridge uncoverd.
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    I think I did some stuff wrong

    yup. i let 7 people try the mozzarella and they all loved it. Now there is none left lol. I really wish I had smoked up some Burgers and threw if on them now...
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    Dry rub VS brine for jerky? With no cure.

    I completely agree with the oven part and heating the jerky up and i do do that with all my batchs and noticed I don't get stomach aches as often as i used to when my brine wasen't as salty and i had no cure.  but I stayed away from doing it at the beginning mainly in case the smoke flavor...
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    First time smoking chesse with pics.

    I got a vacuum sealer, I only made 3 small chunks this time as a trail but next time ill buy a cosco block of cheddar, cut it up and vacuum seal it after smoking. I am definitely going to try to cold smoke more this year. 
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    First time smoking chesse with pics.

    will do, I don't have to air seal it to age it correct?
  17. First time smoking chesse with pics.

    First time smoking chesse with pics.

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    First time smoking chesse with pics.

    This look ok?
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