The place we get special wood from for smoking had a Black Friday sale going on when I went to order some alder to smoke some German-Austrian speck I'm going to make, so I got a 30 pound box of 10 pounds each of alder, peach and wild cherry wood, the latter 2 Craig's choice. There are many choices of wood. He got the 2x2 inch chunks this time but they also offer 3x3 and 3x6 splits. This is the first time we've bought since they changed ownership, so, hopefully, quality will be the same.
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Speck
I decided to use the hog jowl I was going to use to make guanciale to make German/Austrian type speck. I used juniper berries, caraway seeds, a few yellow mustard seeds, garlic powder, a small bay leaf, a bit of brown sugar, kosher salt, and a bit of pink salt. Whirled it all in the spice...
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