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  1. lancerh

    Going to try cold smoking belly bacon: suggestions

    I have made buckboard and venison bacon before by hot smoking in my mes smoker but I have never cold smoked anything. I have about10 lbs of belly bacon curing right now and will be smoking this weekend. So if I am going to cold smoke should I feed constant smoke for entire time? What are...
  2. lancerh

    Venison Bacon

    Thanks to my 13 year old sons first buck last fall, I decided to try some venison bacon. I started with about 50% deer and 50% pork shoulder grinding each twice, once on a coarse grind, then fine. I mixed the venison and pork and mixed in a packaged cure I ordered online. I added water and...
  3. lancerh

    Pastrami from scratch

    I had a brisket in the freezer so I decided to make a pastrami last week.I have done a couple of pastrami's from store bought corned beef before but this is the first one that I tried from scratch. I trimmed most of the fat off of the brisket. I can't exactly remember how much it weighed. I...
  4. lancerh

    First Pastrami

    Thanks to other people's posts I decided to try a pastrami this weekend. I bought a 4lb. corned beef and soaked it overnight to remove the salt. I did not do the fry test but changed the water about 3 times. I made a rub consisting of mostly black pepper and corriander but added a little garlic...
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