Hog Jowls And Bacon
Hog Jowls And Bacon
Hello All,
Chuckwagon, thanks for the email. I figured out why my bacon would not cure. My garage refrig. at any setting - the temp is always 25 F. Took care of that!
I just picked up 6 hog jowls for 0.69 cents a pound. I don't know for sure what to do with it - all I know is that it was priced like a steal. The meat supervisor said he would save me 10 pieces a week. So, I want to use jowl instead of butt for my sausages. The jowls have a lot of lean meat on them so that should be perfect for sausages.---What else can I do with it? (the jowls are small - about 2 lb. after trimming.)
I told Carbonia about it and he got excited! Said that is an unheard of price! He suggested
Guanciale - yes but what am I going to do with 40 pieces of Guanciale a month! plus whatever sausages I make.
I do not have fermentation/curing chambers so I am limited to Lop Cheung which is cured and dried under a fan. And bacon.
Thank you for your suggestions and comments
Doug
Chuckwagon, thanks for the email. I figured out why my bacon would not cure. My garage refrig. at any setting - the temp is always 25 F. Took care of that!
I just picked up 6 hog jowls for 0.69 cents a pound. I don't know for sure what to do with it - all I know is that it was priced like a steal. The meat supervisor said he would save me 10 pieces a week. So, I want to use jowl instead of butt for my sausages. The jowls have a lot of lean meat on them so that should be perfect for sausages.---What else can I do with it? (the jowls are small - about 2 lb. after trimming.)
I told Carbonia about it and he got excited! Said that is an unheard of price! He suggested
Guanciale - yes but what am I going to do with 40 pieces of Guanciale a month! plus whatever sausages I make.
I do not have fermentation/curing chambers so I am limited to Lop Cheung which is cured and dried under a fan. And bacon.
Thank you for your suggestions and comments
Doug
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Doug, I used pork jowls for the first time in my most recent batch of braunschweiger. Looked a considerable good deal like pork belly. And the price was right (cheap!). Asian market. They seem ideal for sausage-making, if not cured bacon...
Braunschweiger:
http://www.wedlinydomowe.pl/en/viewtopic.php?t=6514
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Braunschweiger:
http://www.wedlinydomowe.pl/en/viewtopic.php?t=6514
Kevin
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Yours are a lot better looking. Mine was a lot thinner - after trimming the nodes. glands
and edges etc. I lost a lot of the weight.
I got mine at an asian mkt also. The regulsr butchers did not know what a jowl is so I had to place my hands on my cheeks and motioned down to my neck.
I hope the 10 pieces he's holding for me are thicker - I'll know Saturday.
and edges etc. I lost a lot of the weight.
I got mine at an asian mkt also. The regulsr butchers did not know what a jowl is so I had to place my hands on my cheeks and motioned down to my neck.
I hope the 10 pieces he's holding for me are thicker - I'll know Saturday.
Multi national sausages.
Hello all,
Since I will be getting various sizes of jowls - I have decided to use the larger pieces for bacon and grind up the rest for sausages.
Since I do not have a Fermentation/ curing chamber;
My plan is to utilize Len Polis. Rytek Kutas, Marianski and forum recipes for a base - omitting the asian spices and using Italian, polish, Hungarian, spanish and mexican spices - then
oven baking at 160 F. till IMT is 145 to 150 F. > cold smoking for about 24 hours > air dry with fan till wt. loss is about 35% to 40%.
Or making my own concoction following USDA recommendations ; 1 tsp cure #1 per kilo of meat and about 5% salt plus spices.
Does this sound like a viable plan?
Since I will be getting various sizes of jowls - I have decided to use the larger pieces for bacon and grind up the rest for sausages.
Since I do not have a Fermentation/ curing chamber;
My plan is to utilize Len Polis. Rytek Kutas, Marianski and forum recipes for a base - omitting the asian spices and using Italian, polish, Hungarian, spanish and mexican spices - then
oven baking at 160 F. till IMT is 145 to 150 F. > cold smoking for about 24 hours > air dry with fan till wt. loss is about 35% to 40%.
Or making my own concoction following USDA recommendations ; 1 tsp cure #1 per kilo of meat and about 5% salt plus spices.
Does this sound like a viable plan?
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Hi Doug,
Careful with your Cure #1. That's more than twice as much as you need. One kilo of meat is 2.2 pounds. In that case, you should only be using 2.5 grams of cure which is only about half a teaspoon. The FSIS specifications are 1 level tspn. (about 5.66 grams) of Cure for 5 pounds of meat. For twenty-five pounds of meat, use 28.35 grams (once ounce) of Cure.
Best Wishes,
Chuckwagon
Careful with your Cure #1. That's more than twice as much as you need. One kilo of meat is 2.2 pounds. In that case, you should only be using 2.5 grams of cure which is only about half a teaspoon. The FSIS specifications are 1 level tspn. (about 5.66 grams) of Cure for 5 pounds of meat. For twenty-five pounds of meat, use 28.35 grams (once ounce) of Cure.
Best Wishes,
Chuckwagon
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This entire thread needs to be reviewed!!!!Chuckwagon wrote: Hi Doug,
Careful with your Cure #1. That's more than twice as much as you need. One kilo of meat is 2.2 pounds. In that case, you should only be using 2.5 grams of cure which is only about half a teaspoon. The FSIS specifications are 1 level tspn. (about 5.66 grams) of Cure for 5 pounds of meat. For twenty-five pounds of meat, use 28.35 grams (once ounce) of Cure.
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For sausages,(comminuted meat), 1.13g per 453 g of meat (= 1 lb).
This is equivalent to 156 PPM.
Thats the ratio I use, so for 5lbs: 5.66g of cure for 2268g (=5lb), which is approximately a level tsp (or pretty darn close). I prefer to always weigh rather than use measuring spoons for cure.
Kevin
This is equivalent to 156 PPM.
Thats the ratio I use, so for 5lbs: 5.66g of cure for 2268g (=5lb), which is approximately a level tsp (or pretty darn close). I prefer to always weigh rather than use measuring spoons for cure.
Kevin
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