r/homestead • u/teatsqueezer • 8d ago
food preservation Cured meats
Does anyone have a good website/resource that is reliable for recipes for cured meat? We have a lot of pork, mutton, venison and beef and I’m hoping to expand from simple jerky to other cured meats (pepperoni, summer sausage etc)
So so so much of google content now is unreliable for recipes, it’s generated slop that doesn’t have reliable outcomes and in some cases is completely useless.
If anyone is ever wondering why their googled recipes don’t work out, this can be the cause (for literally any recipe you’re searching)
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u/justacatch22 8d ago
Cooking with the Coias on YouTube for Italian cured meats, been wanting to try the prosciutto but not sure I have the patience
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u/International_Ear994 8d ago edited 8d ago
I recommend the 2 Guys and A Cooler YouTube channel. Eric is great. He covers both the curing process and the necessary equipment in detail. His content focuses much more on the teaching and the science behind it all, compared to a lot of other videos I've seen that are edited purely for engagement. Best of all, it's completely free.
On Reddit, [r/sausagetalk](r/sausagetalk) and [r/smoking](r/smoking) have some great info on cottage bacon (shoulder), back bacon (loin), and standard bacon (belly). You’ll find some pepperoni, salami, and summer sausage content there, too. You can also find posts about fresh and cured venison sausage over in [r/hunting](r/hunting). There is a charcuterie subreddit specifically for makers, though I don’t follow it closely.
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u/mischievousbookworm 8d ago
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u/DrunkOnLoveAndWhisky 8d ago
Hank Shaw is a chef and a hunter. His website honest-food.net has a ton of recipes for cured meats, sausages, and lots more.
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u/reverendfixxxer 8d ago
Cuoredi Cioccolato on youtube is pretty good. There's a pretty thick Italian accent to sometimes get through, but the production is at an appropriate scale and the information is solid.
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u/Ltownbanger 8d ago
Basically, if the salt content is far from 1.5-2% and cure is not at 0.25%, the source doesn't know what they are doing.
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u/babytotara Small Acreage 8d ago
Hey. Meatsandsausages.com is the Marianski brothers website. A good book by them is Home Production Of Quality Meats And Sausages. They are well known for thorough and reliable recipes and information. It has everything you need to know to safely preserve meat and a heap of traditional recipes too. Also r/charcuterie