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  1. 502meat

    Finally built my curing cabinet

    After a year of sitting in my garage I finally drug this True Merchandiser down to my basement and wired it up with the help of a good friend.  Big thanks to xutfuzzy for the inspiration.  I'm running a Johnson Controls A419 for temp control and a Green Air THC-1 for humidity controls.  I've not...
  2. 502meat

    Best pork belly I've ever had.

    I picked up this monster today.  I'm used to getting 9-10lbers frozen from RD.  This dude weighed in at 25lbs fresh. It came from a small local processor who slaughters on site.  They brought it out from the back, so I wouldn't be surprised if it waddled in the back door this morning.  The color...
  3. 502meat

    2nd bacon attempt

    Well I made 11lbs the first time around and it went fast.  I dry cured 30lbs this past week using Rytek Kutas's honey cure recipe and I added some sorghum to my batch.  These just went in the smoker a few hours ago.  Looking forward to some BLT's.
  4. 502meat

    First summer sausage and I've already screwed up

    So my father and I made 40lbs of venison summer sausage for the first time last night.  We stuffed 3# casings.  The error of our ways was very apparent when we went to stick them in the smoker this morning and realized that they were too long to hang vertically in the smoker.  I had to insert...
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