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  1. oldvirginiajoe

    From Ham Town, USA

    Thanks for the welcomes here!  Virginia Ham is famous world-wide, so yes, we stick together here in the Old-Dominion. I enjoyed my time doing my "hobby" in the plants for 7 years. Too bad the salary was so slight, and the OT so heavy.  I will try to get some pics of the buildings here--they...
  2. oldvirginiajoe

    From Ham Town, USA

    If you say a product contains no nitrites, isn't that the same as saying "we added no nitrate," since added nitrate would reduce to nitrite, and therefore the statement would be under stood to mean the product (has never) contained "either?"  Does that logic make sense?  All these word games in...
  3. oldvirginiajoe

    From Ham Town, USA

    What you say is (mostly) what I've been told for a decade, however, some where here on SMF I read of an inspected company in KY making such products with NO cures, and I have contacted them, and they have written me back today saying the USDA has approved their product for many years without...
  4. oldvirginiajoe

    aluminum smoker?

    I have an upright, aluminum baker's cabinet. It is roughly 2' x 2' x 6' high, on caster wheels, with slots inside for sliding sheet (baking) pans. Has a full-height door on one side, with flat panel top. You see these in bakeries as places to store rising bread dough, or donut assortments, or...
  5. oldvirginiajoe

    Sell by Date!!!!

    As one of those government food inspectors myself, I can tell you all that in my state (named "best managed state in the US"), there is NO LAW against selling outdated foods, EXCEPT for (1) infant formula and (2) Grade A dairy fluid milk products. Yes, you heard right.  I assume most, if not all...
  6. oldvirginiajoe

    From Ham Town, USA

    My background is I grew up in an old time country ham and sausage making Virginia family, but as I left home at 18 for college and the Army, I was never trained by my folks in the old ways of processing meats, beyond the skinning pole at the deer camp. Got a BS degree in Animal Science and after...
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