Good luck sir in what appears to be the final chapter of that legal mess.

The sausage looks good and I would have called that chunk bottom round.

The picture is a small loin off a deer a kid shot. We liked it so much we did some more using some more loin and basically what I did was just measure down the loin about 3-4 inches and cut straight through. The larger pieces did well at 3 minutes per side and the smaller took only 2 minutes. I tri...

BB, it looks like the backstrap was cut in 1/2 before searing ? I really would like to try this one instead of my usual bacon wrapped backstrap on the grill.

BB, what cut of venison did you put in the pan, was it a chunk of backstrap? The steaks look scrumptious!

Nice yield from your garden, I grew some awesome weeds !

Irdeer, Please bring some over to my house ,I'll supply the beverages. Looks great !

Greybeard , that sausage looked excellent !
El Ducko, the same goes for the CB!

Shuswap, I'm happy to see you had better results with the Umai process than I did , looks delicious !

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Ray, the ribs came out well ! Nice boat !!!!

Hope you get years of use from it as an electric grinder makes the sausage making process so much easier.

crustyo44 wrote:Cogboy,
In Australia we now have bags available which you can use for smoking AND drying your meat or salami. Same manufacturer as the UMAi bags in Denmark.
Cheers,
Jan.

Jan, Bring some to the states when you come over to visit !

I tried sealing with the vacuum chamber and it started to pull the product out of the bag. I ended up using my old foodsaver to try to seal, I would love to experiment with the bag sealing but the cost of the bags prevented me from playing around too much. I ended up with one good seal from the cham...

Bob, I will look into other cures but not real happy w/ umai products ,lousy sealing problems and now 5 pounds of bland salami.thanks for the ideas.
Redzed, thanks for the smoking tips but guess that won't happen as work/commute keeps me out of the house 60 hours a week.

I lived in Arizona for a bit and I agree with Ray that quail are delicious !