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I would forget the dry ice and go with gel packs --- I do pyros for scouting --- dry ice is classed as an explosive
http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/other-shows/videos/time-warp-dry-ice-bomb.htm
No matter what you get it would be better to get something with a variable speed or a high and low speed that way you can replicate/mimic a buffalo chopper
Granted I am a commercial operation but it's a small at that, just a one man operation with a part time girl a couple of times a week. It seems that no one is intrested in learning the 'art' of curing anymore only in getting the things done as fast as possable and to make as much money
Dry curing in a zip lock bags is an easy way to do small amounts of curing for the home user as there is less mess and when space is at a premium it just makes sense, there is less weight loss up front verses traditional dry curing where there can be up to 20% weight loss (my average is 14% –...
The only way to explain the liquid that some think of as a 'brine' (liquid) that is produced when dry curing is that of as osmosis --- salt pulls the liquid out and at the same time pulls in the spice combination (that's if you use a spice combination)
What Martin has said about the hardness...
I do the same with a Maple bacon that I make, cure for one week with a covering of Maple sugar over the cure and spice. Soak for a couple of hours in cold water then hung to dry for a couple of hours then re-coat with Maple sugar for another week after which it gets cold smoked -- the flavour is...
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