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  1. dzlvs8

    Hello

    I'm an avid smoker. I live in my house. I smoke food. I have a WSM 22.5. I won't even look at a fake smoker (electric), let alone use one. I also have a homemade cold smoker. I've smoked bacon, salmon, cheese, jalapenos, pork shoulder, pork tender lion, beef brisket, and chicken. I only...
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    Duuuuuhhh, Am I screwing up my salmon?!?! NEED HELP QUICK! Still smoking right now!

    FYI - It turned out awesome and moist.  I guess all I did wrong is forget to for the pellicle.  It was in the smoker long enough that it didn't matter.  It's awesome.
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    Duuuuuhhh, Am I screwing up my salmon?!?! NEED HELP QUICK! Still smoking right now!

    Awwww, no I forgot about that. woops. Sounds like I'll have some dry salmon.
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    Duuuuuhhh, Am I screwing up my salmon?!?! NEED HELP QUICK! Still smoking right now!

    Brined it, kept the smoker at 160 degrees.  BUT  I have had a full water pan the whole time.  Am I supposed to do this without water?  My salmon has secreted tons and tons of yellow sludge and they seem very wet, or maybe just oily on top. The salmons only at 133 and doesn't feel done yet...
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    Mixing in more sugar or adding syrup to Mortan Tender Quick?

    Yeah, I know about thin blue smoke.  It's just not what usually happens if I do a really long smoke.  So why the hell would you smoke it for 32 hours.  I cold smoke cheese (below 80 F, what I assume you mean to be "true cold smoke") and my cheese is more smokey than necessary.  I was thinking...
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    Mixing in more sugar or adding syrup to Mortan Tender Quick?

    Thanks for the info.  It's "pectile'n" now.     So, I just tasted it a second time....well, I made a big ass BLT and its so delicious!  How much is cold smoking it with Hickory going to change the flavor of it?  It's delicious now.    Does anyone have any recommendations on how long to smoke...
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    Mixing in more sugar or adding syrup to Mortan Tender Quick?

    Alright,  its been 15 minutes since I've ate some bacon and I'm not dead yet.    I've also had a bowl of wheaties.  Hopefully Wheaties cures Botulism.   So here's what I'm afraid of now.  I've cured the belly.  I had four cuts in four separate bags.  One bag was maple cured and a portion of the...
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    Mixing in more sugar or adding syrup to Mortan Tender Quick?

    Oh ok.  I've just heard a lot of people talking about a ton of water coming out after the first day.        ....So, its the middle of the week.  Any suggestions on how to delay smoking until the weekend, since the cure is done?   Can I just rinse the slabs off and zip lock them back up in a...
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    Mixing in more sugar or adding syrup to Mortan Tender Quick?

     Ok.  My belly has been in the fridge for 8 days and its time to rinse, cook, and test a piece aaaaaannd I'm freakin out again. I was expecting there to be water in the bag from the process of the sodium nitrite drawing out the water from the meat.  I don't see any water in ANY of the four bags...
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    Mixing in more sugar or adding syrup to Mortan Tender Quick?

    so, I'm really worried about this botulism thing. There's a slight chance that a lot of the MtQ came off and I didn't reads enough to the meat. I really don't want to throw away all this bacon because I'm probably worrying about nothing, but should I do anything? I am wondering if I should...
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    Mixing in more sugar or adding syrup to Mortan Tender Quick?

    well it was slightly fishy or sulfury, but not really strong or anything.  It was a little hard to tell what the smell was bcuz it wasn't that strong.   I could put my nose right up to the meat and could only faintly smell it.  So it wasn't pungent.  Thanks for the confidence boost.   Last...
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    Mixing in more sugar or adding syrup to Mortan Tender Quick?

    Ok, Thanks for all the advice so far.  I felt that I had enough info to give this a go, so I went ahead and trimmed off the skin and seasoned and MTQ'd the 12 lbs of belly.  I unfortunately have a couple of questions now related to whether or not I'm going to die when I eat this stuff...
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    Mixing in more sugar or adding syrup to Mortan Tender Quick?

    Thanks for the info.  I have noticed some differences in the way people are "dry" curing their bacon.  Here are the two processes I have seen. Method 1 (seems to be a common method): Throw all of your cure and seasonings on the bacon, zip lock it in the fridge and flip it every 24 hours,rinse...
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    Mixing in more sugar or adding syrup to Mortan Tender Quick?

    I've never heard of doing it that way.  How long did you let it sit with the maple on it before you rinsed it off and smoked it? and why do you add your flavors after curing?
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    Mixing in more sugar or adding syrup to Mortan Tender Quick?

    ???? If Tender Quick consists of 3% salt 2% sugar .5% Sodium nitrate/nitrite then whats in the other 94.5% of it. 
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