Today I picked up 10 pork bellies at the Springfield Farm Store. The pork is from local, naturally raised pigs, no hormones, no antibiotics. Tomorrow we’ll be starting the cure. Our butcher, shown in the picture above, has agreed to let us use her cold room, so we don’t run out of fridge space at [...]
New Heritage Cooking
The first run
While it is way too warm, and will be until fall, to properly cold smoke meat and fish, I wanted to at least try the smokehouse. In went some hard boiled eggs, a handful of heirloom tomatoes and some salt.
As you can see, it worked very well.
The cold smoker
Today I finally tested the cold smoking box I’ve been building. The smoker is about 6″ high, built from pine on the inside and cedar on the outside. The box sits on a concrete block foundation to keep it dry and has a shingle roof.
Smoke is generated by a smoking bullet, fixed to the outside [...]