Curing Chamber
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Curing Chamber
With the help from all of you, I have created some great stuff. I am running into a bind and thought you could enlighten me. I have coppa and bresaola hanging in the chamber at 55 degrees. They are taking longer than I expected, which is no problem. I have always used my chamber for fermentation process also. In all other cases, I would ferment at 73 degrees in the chamber until the meat reaches the desired PH. Once that happens, I would flip the chamber to the desired settings for curing process. Now, I am ready to make more product, yet I have coppa hanging in the chamber. Can someone please make some valid recommendations for fermenting the 36-48 hour process without having to flip my chamber over to 73 degrees? Obviously I can't do that if I have product hanging. Thanks.
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Before I made my chamber, Umai recommended an unused oven for fermentation. Can I stack the meat on top of each other? Should I lay them on a rack with spacing? I remember in the olden days, after stuffing the casings, they used to lay them flat in a bushel basket with towels between them for a couple of day before hanging them in the cellar. Maybe that's what they considered the fermentation process? Again, I'm not convinced anybody knew why they were doing things those days other than saying "that's the way they used to do them"