Hey, all
First, I've taken some time and looked through articles and forums and have to say I am really glad I came upon this forum! There seems to be a lot of really nice, and knowledgeable folks here.
I have wanted to get into serious smoking for YEARS. I did some smoking on my gas grill with foil packets, but haven't worked with lump charcoal before (which was my goal - really test myself) This year, we finally got a KJ and I have been trying to get out each weekend and smoke SOMEthing. I've been watching the KJ videos to get some inspiration. I've done a few butts (moderate success), 2 batches of home cured smoked bacon and one pork belly burnt ends (woof... those were some good meals and I know I'd only done a nominal job on them. Cannot wait to get good at it) and have found myself doing a lot of smoked salmon the last two months. Still needing to tweak the cure process (looking to possibly use either vacuum seal or zip storage bags instead of glass baking pans less cure waste/optimize cure to space used), but happy so far with the results.
I know I will have a lot of questions, and hope some day to be of some assist.
Two questions for now:
Has anyone ever shipped their smoked meats via parcel or mail? I'd like to know how you did that, where you went through, etc.
Also, and this is for folks who also watch "Forged in Fire" -- do you ever watch them cutting up/hacking into all the meat/fish products and want to contact the show to see if they would hand over the meat after it's keeled?
Anyway, thanks for the space to introduce and I am excited to see where we all go with smoke :-)
First, I've taken some time and looked through articles and forums and have to say I am really glad I came upon this forum! There seems to be a lot of really nice, and knowledgeable folks here.
I have wanted to get into serious smoking for YEARS. I did some smoking on my gas grill with foil packets, but haven't worked with lump charcoal before (which was my goal - really test myself) This year, we finally got a KJ and I have been trying to get out each weekend and smoke SOMEthing. I've been watching the KJ videos to get some inspiration. I've done a few butts (moderate success), 2 batches of home cured smoked bacon and one pork belly burnt ends (woof... those were some good meals and I know I'd only done a nominal job on them. Cannot wait to get good at it) and have found myself doing a lot of smoked salmon the last two months. Still needing to tweak the cure process (looking to possibly use either vacuum seal or zip storage bags instead of glass baking pans less cure waste/optimize cure to space used), but happy so far with the results.
I know I will have a lot of questions, and hope some day to be of some assist.
Two questions for now:
Has anyone ever shipped their smoked meats via parcel or mail? I'd like to know how you did that, where you went through, etc.
Also, and this is for folks who also watch "Forged in Fire" -- do you ever watch them cutting up/hacking into all the meat/fish products and want to contact the show to see if they would hand over the meat after it's keeled?
Anyway, thanks for the space to introduce and I am excited to see where we all go with smoke :-)
