Every so often I enjoy to make my own bacon. I've taken a costco's slab of belly and cured it for 12 days. Today is smoke day.
This is my first attempt at a cold smoke. I want to keep the smoke under 80f. Being cured, the belly should be food safe at these temps.
First stab at this...
On my last shopping day the market had fryers on sale so I bought a 6# one to do a wet cure and double smoke. I did my standard front and back half butchering and brined both halves in a gallon of curing brine for 24 hours. Basic mix of salt, sugar, black pepper and Cure#1.
After curing I...
I been wanting to do this for a long time but didn’t have a proper equipment or the correct weather conditions. I recently bought an A-MAZE-N smoking tube.
It was expected to get down to 41 degrees (fairly cool nights for Southern California) and it was only 67 during the day so I decided to...
I returned to the USA from living overseas. All my BBQ gear is gone and I'm starting from scratch. To get started, I have recently got the very simple Big Chief electric smoker. It will work for simple smoke jobs, like hot smoking bacon, but I want to turn it into a cold smoker down the road...
For Christmas I received an AMNPS and I am dying to try it out. Someone was telling me that the ideal temp to cold smoke is 50-55 degrees. Is this true for all meats/cheeses/nuts? I would think colder the better but I can understand how there is an ideal temp where the meats/cheeses take on...
So I bought my Dad a 18" AMNTS for Christmas and we are looking to do our first cold smoke tomorrow. I have done a little amateur hot smoking but this will be the first cold smoke for both of us (his first smoke ever.) We are planning to do eggs (hen and quail,) sausages, cheese, and nuts with...
Mum just sent me a link to this company in New Zealand which is cold smoking eggs (Manuka is the go-to native wood for smoking in NZ).4
http://www.nzmanukaeggs.co.nz/
NZ MANUKA EGGS on Vimeo
http://sundayhotpants.nocturne.net.nz/post/350369663/manuka-smoked-eggs
I've done a search here...