chef jimmyj
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- May 12, 2011
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Ok...I have read posts about post curing all these long 5-7 days before smoking and 5-7 days after...Anybody got a good reason for all the time more than read it here or that's the way Dad did it? I get 24 hours for a pellicle and smoking over 4-5 days cause you want a lot of smoke but need to sleep too. I always Brine or Dry Cure 7 days per inch, cure is through and equalized, 24 hour Pellicle, smoke 12 hours straight, rest overnight mostly to cool so no condensation in the vac-pac, then bag it and tag it every thing not getting eaten in 7 days gets frozen. Did some research for a legit reason for the whole X days before and X days after and the answer eludes me. Why turn an already hardly able to stand 17 day process into some 30+ days?..
...JJ
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