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How to keep flies away from curing meat
Your second suggestion is best. When hunting, we always brought cheesecloth game bags into which to place the quarters, etc. They worked well at keeping flies off and allowing air circulation. I ...
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Does this recipe want me to start with a dry-aged roast beef?
The recipe means to start out with it already dry-aged; presumably you'd just buy it like that because most people don't want to do that themselves at home. Dry-aging beef is a lot of work: you have ...
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How to keep flies away from curing meat
My family often makes sun dried beef for African dishes and it is generally dried openly outdoors in the sun, so fly infestation is a frequent problem.
The way they usually protect it is by placing ...
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Does this recipe want me to start with a dry-aged roast beef?
If the first step in your recipe produced dry-aged beef, the real dry-aged beef wouldn't be so very, very expensive and hard to come by.
Dry aging is a process that takes weeks under controlled ...
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Found some spots on dry aged beef, getting slimy. Need advice
Your conditions were both too warm and too low of a humidity. Ideal for 'dry aging' is 32.5°F to 33.8°F (0.5°C to 1.0°C) at 80%-85% humidity.
Firstly, temperature control is critical to slow and ...
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What is the boundary between beef aging and its decay?
Here is what some will definitely label a biased description of aging and packing that might help a bit. It goes into the difference between wet and dry aging and gas packing which has become more ...
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How to Tell if Beef Steak Has Been Dry-Aged
While there's some similarity in looks between aged steak and rotten meat (both usually have a dark color) it's easy to tell the difference. Spoiled meat will smell rotten and very unpleasant, and ...
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When you wet or dry cure fish does all of the fat come out with the water?
It should be mostly just water, very little fat. Water is released pretty easily, fat not so much, especially without grinding things up. Most fish isn't that fatty to begin with, anyway.
In any case,...
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How to keep flies away from curing meat
Use a food fly cover available at kitchen supply shops:
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Do you need cheesecloth to wrap around a dry aged beef?
Cheesecloth is not 'required' for dry aging, but it is helpful. You can substitute a wrapping of paper towels. You want something to absorb the moisture that will be released during the aging process. ...
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Furthering the dry aging process post purchase?
I don't have experience with the "UMAi Dry Bag", but I have read about mixed results. I did just finish a 45-day dry prime rib, however. It worked out very well. My set up was a refrigerator, with ...
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UMAi Dry Aged Bags - Effectiveness
It is not a substitute for standard dry aging technique according to this: The UMAi dry bags are not Oxygen permeable, which is a critical part of the dry-aging process. Depending on your goals, it ...
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How can I rehydrate a dried navel orange?
Nothing I know of will make them juicy to eat on their own. Likely they were under-watered or picked late.
Can infuse with alcohol -inject or marinate- and have cocktails.
Or find a compote recipe. ...
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How to keep flies away from curing meat
While it may or may not work for your particular dish, the spicy component of black pepper is piperine, which is toxic enough to most insects that it has even seen use as an insecticide. As such, ...
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Issues with salt loss and dry curing
I'm not sure about the possibility of getting the salt all the way into the center of a fish, but I can perhaps address some of your other questions.
First, if you do manage it with a simple salt ...
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