Good day.
I made some lonzino about a month ago. So, lots of crushed juniper berries, hot pepper, garlic, nutmeg, black pepper, about 2% salt to weight and the calculated amount of cure#2. Cut the loin into thirds and removed most of silver skin. I want to build a curing chamber and have an inkbird humidity controller and waiting on the inkbird temp controller, not to mention a fridge or freezer. Anyway, I was gonna put into umai bags, but thought I would check the temp and humidity in my sump room/ crawlspace. House is a raised ranch, so not a full depth basement. Temp was 62F and humidity was 46%, so a little on dry side. I filled thre five gallon buckets with water and got the humidity up to 57%. Not ideal but better than the garage. They have been hanging for a week and still have some weight to lose but are looking and smelling pretty good. They are coated with black pepper and hot pepper. Will share some more pics when I slice open and enjoy with a nice beverage and slice of bread. I don't know why I didnt do this sooner. Oh, I do though. Covid boredom got wife and I clear out a ton of junk and the new space sparked an idea lol.
I made some lonzino about a month ago. So, lots of crushed juniper berries, hot pepper, garlic, nutmeg, black pepper, about 2% salt to weight and the calculated amount of cure#2. Cut the loin into thirds and removed most of silver skin. I want to build a curing chamber and have an inkbird humidity controller and waiting on the inkbird temp controller, not to mention a fridge or freezer. Anyway, I was gonna put into umai bags, but thought I would check the temp and humidity in my sump room/ crawlspace. House is a raised ranch, so not a full depth basement. Temp was 62F and humidity was 46%, so a little on dry side. I filled thre five gallon buckets with water and got the humidity up to 57%. Not ideal but better than the garage. They have been hanging for a week and still have some weight to lose but are looking and smelling pretty good. They are coated with black pepper and hot pepper. Will share some more pics when I slice open and enjoy with a nice beverage and slice of bread. I don't know why I didnt do this sooner. Oh, I do though. Covid boredom got wife and I clear out a ton of junk and the new space sparked an idea lol.