meat and loaf .
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If you don't make bread to compliment your products you should start.

Ok There is a link to a pix of the sandwiches on the cutting board. I will post the pix of meat and loaf.

I smoke cooked a brined piece of pork loin for our lunches Saturday and yeaterday I made some loaf bread to fit the sliced meat. Yeast bread takes much less time to make than does sausage but good bread makes good sausage and cured meat even better. http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/2760/20110328ca...

I was doing some searching for information regarding the temperature at which wood begins to smoke. This can be of interest because you can heat a smoke house to 250 degrees for cooking and with enough heat (BTU's) at low temperature still not make smoke. With electric heaters I can make a few eleme...

thanks for the kudos.

I have not yet assembled a smoker but today I decided to cook another brined piece of loin for sandwiches next week. I must pack lunches for Nancy and meself because I struck gold last week and have a 10 week job to do bringing a house back to civilization. A couple of weeks ago I posted that I had ...

For many years I have simply tossed my table scrap and meat waste out back and a local fox cleans it all up. It is never there in the morning and often by midnight it is gone.

I agree with both of you in the minimal use of special purpose chemicals. The total knowledge that I have of food chemistry could be handwritten on a couple of index cards. In the last whole earth catalog someone stated that the less you do to a molecule the better of you are in life. I generally av...

Onion sizes: a small onion you can enclose in your hand. A meduim onion is the size you would throw at the dog when he stole your steak. A large oinion would cover a burger with one center slice.

The ring on the original grinder was way out of tolerance. I have no idea how it could have happened during manufacture. It was almost as if the ring was cracked. I could tighten it to a point and then it would slip a thread. Since this was turkey leg meat there was a lot of silver surface sinew tha...

A couple of months ago I bought a # 10 grinder from Cabelas. I was proud. I have used grinders many times before. When I tried to grind some pork, the ring pushed off because it didn't fit properly. So I sent it back and Cabelas replaced it with no shipping cost or hassle. The new grinder came in du...

Thank you Chuck.

I have received the book "Home Production of Quality Meats and Sausages" and I am pleased. I haven't yet read enough to answer a fundamental question. I am sure the answer is in there. It seems that the minimum effective level of sodium nitrite is 50 ppm and the maximum allowable is 156 ppm. This se...

here is one: http://lpoli.50webs.com/index_files/Chorizo-Spanish.pdf