Homemade Sausage Making

Sorry for stealing your moniker Chris but it's so fitting. I mentioned earlier I bought a restaurant milk dispenser for dirt cheap. It fit my small space great. I have a hose added to my vapor humidifier and sensor for the controller running through the bottom milk hole. I used a computer fan which fit perfect in plastic eavestrough down spout. I power this with an old 12v electronics charger. It's hooked to a wireless outdoor Christmas light controller that has a fob like your car door lock opener. I can turn it off and on from the house. Once it's full and running if I need to vent it more I will use a timer to run it several times a day. I have a vent in the door. Aluminum Angle on the sides with 5/16" stainless tubing as hanging rods.





A trip to the dollar store for small stringed tags to label each chub, and a small white board to keep track of weights and dates.

Looking forward to seeing the results! Will be a good lesson in using a small space for curing.

Here it is with 11 small chubs and one large of Genoa, plus 6 small and one beef cap of Sopressa. I think I can still fit in my two Coppa"s in another week when they're done in the spice mix.

She all fit in! I have 6kg of Coppa, 6kg of Sopressa, and 8 kg of Genoa. That should take me to Spring. Unless I get a lot of shrinkage there's no room for the two pieces of loin for Speck that are currently in the freezer. That will have to be the next load.

Are you able to keep the humidity level down? Thats a lot of new product all at once.

Bob it's hovering right around 89%. I have a timer on the fan to run for 30 min, 4 times a day. Tons of mold on everything except the two Coppa I just put in and the large Sopressa.
Worst case I crack the door for a while. Temp isn't an issue as the shed is 13C. How long should I wait if it;s consistently at 89 or 90?

You should try to drop it to 85% for at least the first week or so and then lower to 80-82%. Does your controler also dehumidify?, if so set it up to the exhaust fan to dehumidify. You probably won't be needing the humidifier for a long time, if at all.

Bob, I can't dehumidify with the controller but I can set the other timer to run the fan at more frequent intervals and see how that works.

Bob, I found that the control sensor had come off the wall and was lying on the bottom. I put it back on with some self stick velcro. RH is holding at 80 now.

Thanks to Bob I found out my controller CAN be set to dehumidify! Got it set and hooked to the fan and working great. Once the humidity drops as things dry I'll hook the humidifier back up, as well as put the fan back on the timer to just move some air around.

Here's the progress after two weeks. Pretty good mold growth now!

I thought that one worked like the Auber! You also may want to rotate the chubs periodically, as some areas of the fridge will dry faster than others. I would aso get the humidity back up to 80-82% . Especially with the large beef bung chub.

Ok, will do. Thanks for the advice Bob.

EDIT: done and Done! Thanks Bob.