dry aging

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  1. B

    Mold on Deer Sausage

    Hi everyone, this is my first time posting. I’ve been using these forums for a while now, and they’ve been incredibly helpful. My family has a tradition of making large batches of deer sausage every year. We cold smoke them and then dry age them by hanging them in the smokehouse for about six...
  2. J

    Should I dry brine a ribeye that's been dry aged for 28 days?

    My friend and I are conducting an experiment: buy a whole ribeye roast, cut part off to cook immediately, split the reamining, put one into Umai dry age bag, vacuum pack the other and freeze until the dry age completes. Then, we want to cut steaks off each, and prepare them identically for a...
  3. Daba's BBQ

    How long to dry age?

    I picked up a few dozen dry age kits from The Sausage Maker. Yesterday, I placed 3 ribeyes in one and a top eye round roast in another. I followed the instruction and tied them both. Is there an optimum period of time to keep them refrigerated before opening and serving? I am heading out on...
  4. C

    DIY Proscuitto Help

    Last fall I butchered some home raised hogs and I wanted to take a stab at proscuitto. I took the advice/tips from this video Fast forward to today and this is how my aging is going: I'm wondering if the mold on there is normal or if it's something I should worry about and/or possibly throw...
  5. K

    Dry aging DIY

    Hey, first post. Glad I stumbled across these forums, looks like theres quite a bit of information here but I'm interested to hear your thoughts. I've set up a mini fridge for dry aging. Has a thermometer, humidity sensor, UV light and a fan for air circulation. Humidity can be controlled...
  6. C

    First time dry ageing!

    Hi all! My name is Charlie, reaching out for help from down under, Australia. I am trying to dry age for my first time, i bought the DryAgingBags and a vacuum sealer but for some reason the vacuum doesn't suck 100% of the air out of the bag, there's still gaps. after trying multiple times and...
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