Crusty044 you are right that cure is not needed, but I want the pink color in the finished product. If you don't want to add cure leave it out.

My Baby sister will be migrating from Canada here to sunny Florida , She just loves my Oktoberfest Brats . so i made a batch Grinding a boston butt. http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d162/Big-Guy01/meat%20processing%20and%20smoking/P1090013.jpg Spices,cases, milk and eggs ready to mix into the meat ...

I shoot and then cut into major pieces within hours of the kill, it then goes into my spare fridge for a week. then I do the final butchering. It works for me.

bacon,onion and cheese are what I like

I regularly get cold shoulder and hot tounge served up around here

I cut them out too. They just look gross. You could probably grind it and never tell the difference but why would you.

Wow that looks great. Nice job

sounds like a good recipe.I think I know what went wrong. You need to wash that sock before using it.

An old fisherman on the east coast decided to retire, things were kind of boring just sitting around the house so he walked into town and did some window shopping. He was looking in the butchers window when the butcher came out and asked if he could help him with any thing. The old fisherman said wh...

what no pics ? Lets see what you did!

If you do it in wide mouth jars it should work, it will look ugly in the jar but it should taste fine.

The taste is very similar to the Hormel product. I rushed the last shot, the meat could have cooled more and the voids would have had gelatin in them and the outside edge a little firmer. I'm here until after deer season mid Nov. before I migrate. I've got a few moose and caribou roasts to use up be...

I thought I'd try to make some Splam. It turned out real good, taste right on, just a few voids in the meat. Definatly a do again. Semi frozen pork butt chunks ready to grind http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d162/Big-Guy01/meat%20processing%20and%20smoking/spam002.jpg First grind http://i35.photobu...

Those look terrific.Nice job
Yes it looks like a lot of pepper and it has a little after bite, not a rip your face off heat.
I can't keep them My kids go nuts for them. I think thats why they come home. LOL

post your recipe, I have several bags of dried and smoked peppers ready to grind