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Curious about how long you can store this homemade jerky either ground or whole muscle. Do you cryovac it or just into ziplocs? fridge or room temp storage?
I hate this place..
I picked up some ground meat jerky years and years ago at Menards and thought it was great. Went down the rabbit hole and bought a cannon, and I already had the dehydrator.
This was in my infancy of sausage making and it wasnt easy to use, so I havent been excited to use it...
Slice jalapeños
Bring syrup to a boil
Add jalapeños
Bring back to a boil and remove from heat.
Add strained jalapeños to jars. Pack them in.
Bring liquid back to a boil for 5 mins.
Pour reduced syrup into jars and seal.
Leave for 3 weeks.
Use remaining syrup to make jalapeno jelly.
I load up the freezer in fall for winter eats.
Did a run of jalapeno and cheddar kielbasa a few weeks ago that I posted as well as some bacon.
Now it was time for some back bacon.
6 loins cured in Pops Brine for 2 weeks.
Dried in the fridge for 3 days and into the smoker.
Smoked for 4 hrs...
I usually take my raw costs and add 30% at minimum. I will also look at the store costs for the same product and make it value added (Bacon is 375 grams int he store Il make it a true pound of bacon for the same price of the premium bacon ) by either adding more weight to the package or charging...
I go until I have the desired color I want.
I have normally wet brined my bellies and to get that color usually takes me 2 days of smoking for 8 hours with a rest overnight.
Both hot smoked and cold smoked need to still be fried to cook it.
These dried bellies cut my smoking time down to just...
Hers is the final product of this process.
I will be slicing on Monday at work.
Here is a few hand cuts and test fry.
Bellies I had were a little on the thin side but overall it’s a good recipe.
Smoked for 6 hours to get to that color but I would go for the full 8. (I cold smoke)
I’ll tweak...
Got 2 bellies in the smoke right now from @SmokinEdge bacon thread.
I realized I only had 1 ring left so I decided to bring some meat home from work and run the smoker all weekend.
That mixer they were gonna toss from work (its old and has no guards so it was “illegal”), so I picked it up for...
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