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The Offical What's NOT Cooking Food Thread: Cured Meat

Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 10:32 am
by Keggermeister
Trying my first Breasola

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Dry Brine in the fridge for the last two weeks, Just hanging it today. Hopefully me ghetto curing chamber works out.

Re: The Offical What's NOT Cooking Food Thread: Cured Meat

Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 2:16 pm
by Mansfield
Nice. What steps did you use for the dry cure?

The ghetto curing chamber, is that a garbage can?

Re: The Offical What's NOT Cooking Food Thread: Cured Meat

Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 2:39 pm
by Keggermeister
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I didn't have any Juniper, so I subbed gin instead. I here it works well.
The "chamber" is a Rubbermaid tote with a pan of salted water in the bottom. It is in the garage at 15*c. Hopefully the pan of water will raise the humidity in the tote enough for a good cure. We will see.

Re: The Offical What's NOT Cooking Food Thread: Cured Meat

Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2011 8:43 pm
by dexter
You wouldnt by any chance have a link or a PDF version I that book?

Re: The Offical What's NOT Cooking Food Thread: Cured Meat

Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2011 3:29 pm
by Keggermeister
Naw, I bought it. Amazon has it.

Re: The Offical What's NOT Cooking Food Thread: Cured Meat

Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2011 10:49 pm
by dexter
I found it but thanks

Re: The Offical What's NOT Cooking Food Thread: Cured Meat

Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2011 12:16 pm
by Keggermeister
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After one week of drying. Nice white mold growth.

Re: The Offical What's NOT Cooking Food Thread: Cured Meat

Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2011 1:33 pm
by derek
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After one week of drying. Nice white mold growth.
That's a good thing?

Re: The Offical What's NOT Cooking Food Thread: Cured Meat

Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2011 9:08 pm
by Keggermeister
Yeah, white mold is good, other colors not so much. You wash it off after it is done.

Re: The Offical What's NOT Cooking Food Thread: Cured Meat

Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 9:53 pm
by mr x
That's a different method that the dry cures I've seen. I think I posted the bresaola recipe here somewhere...