Hi from Budapest!!
I have visited your site on various occasions, just enough to know this is the go-to site for all things smoking and curing related, and now I decided to jump in as I ventured down this path with more guts than anything else just to reach my first hurdle.
I am an engineer by trade, born and bred in South Africa but is currently residing in Hungary managing the local office of our mother company. The way meat is cut and prepared here differs from back home and it did not take long for me to start making my own sausage and butchering my own pork and lamb. (I did not raise them, only bought the whole carcasses :))
I started building a curing chamber, but the opportunity to make proscuitto put that project on hold and the process started. With your permission, I would like to post a thread dedicated to that process and the question I have now. Will I kill my whole family if we dare to eat this thing. It looks like proscuitto, it smells like it too (I even bought a horse bone needle in Italy to test it), but I am too scared to eat it.
Anyhow, I am elated to be here and look forward to some interesting future projects.
I have visited your site on various occasions, just enough to know this is the go-to site for all things smoking and curing related, and now I decided to jump in as I ventured down this path with more guts than anything else just to reach my first hurdle.
I am an engineer by trade, born and bred in South Africa but is currently residing in Hungary managing the local office of our mother company. The way meat is cut and prepared here differs from back home and it did not take long for me to start making my own sausage and butchering my own pork and lamb. (I did not raise them, only bought the whole carcasses :))
I started building a curing chamber, but the opportunity to make proscuitto put that project on hold and the process started. With your permission, I would like to post a thread dedicated to that process and the question I have now. Will I kill my whole family if we dare to eat this thing. It looks like proscuitto, it smells like it too (I even bought a horse bone needle in Italy to test it), but I am too scared to eat it.
Anyhow, I am elated to be here and look forward to some interesting future projects.
