Smoking + curing

[umhloti]

Hi All messing around with different ways of smoking that will suit me and work for me.

I also cure a lot of meat and want to try and enhance the flavours by cold smoking the cured beef. Growing up in Africa and curing meat is almost part of what you have to do. So eating and making it is just as important .But love the eating more

Please see links as photos are to big to download:
bbqmasterclass.net/smoking/

[tonyb]

I've a Bradley smoker for hot smoking and use a ProQ Cold Smoke generator for cold smoking. The latter is a great piece of simple design engineering that works really well and I'd recommend it to anybody interested in cold smoking.

[umhloti]

Thanx TonyB. Some nice stuff on there . Doing a youtube of my curing box. Just to show how i made it . Its served me well and use it a lot .

[h12rpo]

@ tonyb........do you use that cold smoker in your wfo ? I like the look of that and thnking of getting one

[umhloti]

My curing box That I made a few years ago . Dont throw away your old style light bulbs you can get great heat from them

First attempt at youtube . Man its not easy and i need a tripod and a different voice

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I9tVs4qRG4

[minesamojito]

That's a great vid mate, it's not easy at all is it, you did well though.
Quite fancy having a go at biltong myself
Cheers
Marcus

[tonyb]

h12rpo I haven't used it in my wfo but I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work for cold smoking, essentially all you need is a container with a vent and something to generate smoke but not a lot of heat. If I was to use it in my wfo, I'd probably set the ProQ smoke generator on the floor and raise the food to be smoked a couple of bricks or so high and partially block of the door to help retain the smoke but allow some circulation.

I can thoroughly recommend home smoked salmon. I've also started trying cold smoking some meat before sous vide cooking.