The long wait is over. It has lost the 30% weight I was waiting for.
We started out looking like this. All cured (#2) and seasoned.
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Added some more hot spice
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Got it all tucked away in its new home
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Made sure it was not going anywhere by adding the netting
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Got the start weight
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Into the curing chamber it went with a bunch of his buddies.
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So from June 16th the wait was on.
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But than today came and it was all worth it.
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-ZBoQyuGSeEU/UDuwqXwNYOI/AAAAAAAADKY/zdupkARyRl0/s1024/DSC_0095.JPG)
OH YA that's what I'm talking about :)
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-yuRtDGPyN1I/UDuwqVtuicI/AAAAAAAADKg/pWJ8IBmP2Ao/s1024/DSC_0096.JPG)
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Thanks for looking
NICE!!!!
Well done!
Looks really good!!!
Don
Outstanding
Looks awesome!
I would love to learn how to do this.
WOW!!!!
That looks amazing!!!
Perfect!!!!!, Im proud of your progress!!!
Thanks everyone for the nice comments. Never thought I would be doing something like this a year ago but here I am thinking about what I want to try next. I really need to retire from my job so I have more time for this ;D ;D
Oh my gosh... that looks SO good. I've not used my dry-cure fridge for WAY too long. Having a young child (9 months old now) has somehow eaten into a lot of my spare time ;D. Wouldn't change it for the world of course... but damn I miss playing with my own toys!!
On a slightly OT but vaguely related note, I'm really looking forward to getting my hands on this new Ruhlman book:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0393068595 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0393068595)
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OMG!!! What time is lunch??? Beautiful.
Wow. That looks great.
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That turned out AWESOME!!
After things come down here a little it will time to get back into sausage mode and give this a try.
Thanks for the post!
Oh Ya!
Great job Don!
Looks fantastic Devo!
Crap! I still haven't got to building mine yet. All the parts are sitting int the garage. :'(
Keep up the great work!
Mike
Looks GREAT.
Would love to be able to do that one day!
Wow that looks amazing, great job on that, what cut of meat did you use?