Dry Curing Sausage and Bacon

[Bitser]

Our basement is dry and cold, so I built a box out of scrap from a greenhouse for curing meat. Added a 150W panel heater that wasn't warm enough for my wife and a little humidifier made for a cigar humidor.

(There are garden potatoes stored below the box.)

It works really well: sausages, etc. turn out like deli meats in both taste and appearance. L to R: pancetta, peperone, and soppressata.

Pancetta

Soppressata and peperone.

 

[gerardj]

Very nice results, I did chinese red sausage, they dried out fine in the refrigerator. Cantonese lap cheong.

When I was 16 I was a butchers apprentice in the UK, we hand linked thousands of sausage a week for wholesale accounts.
Its like riding a bike, you never forget.

 

[Andy M.]

Looks delicious.

 

[Bitser]

Just when I have it wired, my darling wife has decided to go vegetarian.

 

[Andy M.]

Just when I have it wired, my darling wife has decided to go vegetarian.

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