[Robair]

Anyways, back to the topic of the thread.

Bacon Shortage:

[pineywoodslim]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

Unsound Unsound:

I've made quite a bit of sausage. but only fresh. I've been considering picking up a cheap cabinet smoker(big chief or something similiar) to try smoking sausage as well. Is it terribly difficult to do? I'd especially like to try making my own salami someday.

Very easy. Go down to Canadian Tire, they have (Canadian made) Bradley Smokers on cheap. The digital ones will not only monitor the temperature of 'hot' smoking, they will change the wood 'biscuits' before they char and give a sour taste to the meat. There are 4 and 6 rack models.

I use an old broomhandle to hang sausage from, instead of the racks.

Then you can make homemade Chipolte, Smoked Salmon, Beef Carpaccia (?), Smoked Chicken . . . . it's my favourite appliance.

Ruhlman's salami recipe turned out really great for me. And stuff like homemade bacon or homemade salami makes a good Christmas gift, and one that is genuinely appreciated.

Being from the southern US, my main smoking needs revolve around pork ribs, pork shoulder, and beef brisket, so I'm pretty low tech and found that a cheap Brinkman offset smoker from Walmart for about $150.00 does fine. It also works for andouille sausages and bacon. I just like soaking the wood chips and tossing them on the charcoal and getting that great plume of hickory smoke and gently cooking pork that settles over the neighborhood (though I have to be careful that no one is hanging out laundry, lol).


Have you tried making guanciale? I made some a couple of years ago using Ruhlman's recipe and it was delicious.

[DrCaleb]

pineywoodslim pineywoodslim:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

Unsound Unsound:

I've made quite a bit of sausage. but only fresh. I've been considering picking up a cheap cabinet smoker(big chief or something similiar) to try smoking sausage as well. Is it terribly difficult to do? I'd especially like to try making my own salami someday.

Very easy. Go down to Canadian Tire, they have (Canadian made) Bradley Smokers on cheap. The digital ones will not only monitor the temperature of 'hot' smoking, they will change the wood 'biscuits' before they char and give a sour taste to the meat. There are 4 and 6 rack models.

I use an old broomhandle to hang sausage from, instead of the racks.

Then you can make homemade Chipolte, Smoked Salmon, Beef Carpaccia (?), Smoked Chicken . . . . it's my favourite appliance.

Ruhlman's salami recipe turned out really great for me. And stuff like homemade bacon or homemade salami makes a good Christmas gift, and one that is genuinely appreciated.

Being from the southern US, my main smoking needs revolve around pork ribs, pork shoulder, and beef brisket, so I'm pretty low tech and found that a cheap Brinkman offset smoker from Walmart for about $150.00 does fine. It also works for andouille sausages and bacon. I just like soaking the wood chips and tossing them on the charcoal and getting that great plume of hickory smoke and gently cooking pork that settles over the neighborhood (though I have to be careful that no one is hanging out laundry, lol).


Have you tried making guanciale? I made some a couple of years ago using Ruhlman's recipe and it was delicious.

I haven't tried his guanciale yet but I only got the book last Christmas, so I haven't worked my way through it. But I am getting good at ribs, and his pulled pork is heavenly!

That's the trouble with making all these recipies; you have to eat them afterwards!

[Jughead]

Bacon Shortage? I hope this is not as serious as it sounds. They will likely get corn shipped to replace the ruined crops (I hope), so the hogs can eat, and any bacon shortage is averted. Of course the price of bacon will go up as a result. The main thing here is averting a continental crisis, especially for those of us who enjoy having bacon for breakfast.

[DrCaleb]

Jughead Jughead:

Bacon Shortage? I hope this is not as serious as it sounds. They will likely get corn shipped to replace the ruined crops (I hope), so the hogs can eat, and any bacon shortage is averted. Of course the price of bacon will go up as a result. The main thing here is averting a continental crisis, especially for those of us who enjoy having bacon for breakfast.

Not to worry. And the Maple Syryp reserve theft has been solved, so breakfast is saved!