What did you do today

[Electric Miner]

Left home very early this morning. Got home to find brand new air conditioning not working. Called guy who installed it. He found furnace blower motor was bad, which moves the AC air. Luckily, furnace is still under warranty, and he had the proper motor on his truck, so he's out replacing the motor right now.

[valforgettaboutit]

Ingredients

Coarse kosher salt - 3%
Sugar - 2%
Ground Hatch chiles - 1%
Granulated garlic - 0.5%
Granulated onion - 0.5%
Ground cumin - 0.5%
Coarse black pepper - 0.5%
Cure #1 - 0.25%

How to use this recipe...

All those percentages above are a percentage of the weight of the pork belly that is being cured for bacon. I work in grams because it is more precise than ounces.

I take the pork belly and cut it into smaller pieces for easier handling. Then you weigh a piece of your pork belly and use that to figure amounts for ingredients.

For example: if your piece of belly weighs 1000 grams, 3% of 1000 grams is 30 grams, so you would use 30 grams of kosher salt for that piece of belly. See how that works?

Mix a separate batch of cure for each piece of belly. rub all the cure into the piece of belly, then place it into a vacuum bag with all the cure and vacuum pack it. You can use ziplocs as well, just make sure to put it into a pan in case of leakage. The cure will draw moisture out of the meat. When it is all packed, it goes in the refrigerator for 10-14 days.

After that I cold smoke it. During the winter, when temps stay below 40 degrees, I smoke it for 12-24 hours. During the summer, I cold smoke it for no longer than 3 hours. In any case, do not let the internal temp of the meat go over 130 degrees, or you will start rendering the fat out of it.

 After smoking, it gets repacked and goes back in the refrigerator for seven days before slicing and repacking.

Thanks EM! I really appreciate the info, you're a champ for typing all that out.

[Mad Dog Stafford]

Hi mazo, why didn't you put those firearms up for sale in the Buy Sell, or Trade section of this message board?

Regards,
Richard

This

Yeah...what happened?

[mazo kid]

Hi mazo, why didn't you put those firearms up for sale in the Buy Sell, or Trade section of this message board?
Regards, Richard

Oh-oh, guess I might be drummed out of the corps! Well, hmmm, uhhh, errr, actually the guns were primarily modern ones, with 2 antique ones. I wanted to maximize my investment, also needed to justify the two hour trip to pick up my BPCR and hopefully make some money. I really didn't think there would be much interest here for what I took to auction off. And there would be the hassle of packaging up 14 guns and shipping 12 of them off from an FFL to a FFL  Next time I will post here to see if anyone wants any of my "stuff".

[Electric Miner]

Good day at work today. They finally fired our biggest problem employee. The guy is the boss' nephew (literally). For the last couple months, he's been showing up for the morning line out then vanishing for the whole day. Sometimes we didn't see him till the next day. Several people said he was going home during the day and coming back to clock out. This morning the boss's boss showed up and escorted the guy off site. His uncle (my boss) had to clean out his stuff and take it to him.

[ShotgunDave]

Sounds like a satisfying day EM.

[Hawg]

I slept most of the day.

[Yolla Bolly Brad]

Good day at work today. They finally fired our biggest problem employee. The guy is the boss' nephew (literally). For the last couple months, he's been srhowing up for the morning line out then vanishing for the whole day. Sometimes we didn't see him till the next day. Several people said he was going home during the day and coming back to clock out. This morning the boss's boss showed up and escorted the guy off site. His uncle (my boss) had to clean out his stuff and take it to him.

I have seen how one goof off or privileged person can ruin the morale of a whole crew. That is why affirmative action is so destructive to the workplace.

[Electric Miner]

One of the neighbors dropped by this afternoon to mow the long grass in the side yard - and clean up the windfall apples.

[mazo kid]

Sometimes it is nice to have helpful neighbors. Lots of times ours aren't all that "helpful".

[Electric Miner]

Baby back ribses are rubbeded. Smoke tomorrow, then sous-vide on Monday. 1/2 with a coffee rub, and 1/2 with a Carolina pork rub.

[Electric Miner]

Now to make my own special recipe - chile con tres pequeños payasos y una llama

[Pustic]

Today I made contact with special event station N0N on the 40 meter band, went to the dump, got gas, went to the store and bought some vittles, came back home and did a little pyrography.

[Electric Miner]

I have a dilemma. I have a bit of bacon stuck in my teeth. On one hand, it's annoying. On the other, I can still taste bacon. Not sure what to do. Is this what they call a first world problem?

[Miguel Loco]

I have a dilemma. I have a bit of bacon stuck in my teeth. On one hand, it's annoying. On the other, I can still taste bacon. Not sure what to do. Is this what they call a first world problem?

A gift that keeps on giving.....