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Any chance of getting a discount on the retort bags? Also do you have any smaller order amounts than 1000? I am getting the vacmaster vp545 delivered in a couple of days and would like to experiment with retort bags. Thank you
Ive got about 4000 lbs of bagged castable refractory that was used to line the transfer crucibles in a steel factory. Its not an insulating type. would that be something to make a pizza oven out of?
(I got this olong with other stuff when the Ft Worth steel mill went under.)
Well , may be they did install it right. Ive only used the one time so far. But it seems that if the lip makes it easier to install , it would make it easier for the meat to slip past. I will try it the opposite way the next time and see how it works.
Commercial operations get by with a much shorter time because the put the beef through a AC shock cycle ( up to 600v ac) from 1 to 5 minutes. They do this right after death. This causes the muscles to contract repeatedly which depletes the muscles of certain chemicals that cause rigor. So they...
I bought one that looks just like that, when I went to use it a lot of meat ended up on top of the pusher plate. Turns out they shipped it with the rubber seal on the plate installed backwards. Just something to check.
Ive got a proofer/oven that looks about the same as yours. Mine is uninsulated, but I think I will add some insulating panels to mine. Mine has a humidity knob and heat knob. Has a separate element underneith a water resorvoir.
Ive got a book that goes into the science of what happens to the meat after its killed. it has time charts and such for tenderness vs age time. It talks about cold shortening ,, rigor, aging etc etc. The book its called Home Production of Quality Meats and Sausages by Stanley Marianksi, and...
I am also a member on http://www.wedlinydomowe.pl/en/ It seems the two sites would go hand in hand. It deals with sausage making and meat curing. A lot of good information on both sites.
I edited the url to put in the missing slash, so now anybody coming across this post in the future...
Thought I would bounce an idea I had for a smoker.
I thought about building a box undernieth one of these.
it would have expanded steel on the above circle view.
each one of the four could be turned independently or dropped to the bottom to make more room
for bigger pieces of meat. The...