mrphilips wrote:Brian - yeah.
see... things are just different over here in my wine-chiller.
the one that could fit under my desk.
Sorry, (about the assumption – young Wheels is reminding me most of the time) – I’m slightly bigger than your bedroom (unless you are in a bachelor suite)
i don't have a walk-in smoke house,
Sorry to say that I do not have one now. Being on my own (in a sense) I do rely on the place I used to work (hence the photos) for my smoking. Have to wait (very long time??) for my partner to get off his f*t a**e
i can't acquire any cross-ventilation without suffering major case hardening,
There is a hole in the wall that lets air in for the furnace – we are slightly luckier than you as out in this country our winters tend to be mild
humidity is a b!tch to control
I do honestly know what you mean when you say bitch ---- so in all honesty I do not try at all to control the humidity – never will --- not worth the agro
and my sausages are WAY uglier than yours
You must remember that we all started somewhere and besides that I had to seriously work on it as customers would not buy them, the other problem was even my mother would/will not take them cuz they wuz that ugly
(but i can work on that).
It’s just like trying to riding a bike
production to production, you and i are from different countries, however envious i am of your facilities.
And hears me thinking it was different provinces but I hear what you are saying.
Believe me when I say this; do not be envious of the slightly larger space that I have if need be I could/can do it in the house with the shower facility in the basement (closet size), my work shop (12 x 16 ((?)) ) which is unheated plus a refrigerator
cardboard could work, and the four-link method would create a good pinch to keep the cardboard wedged between.
Cardboard will work. Think outside the box as you are right now you are not looking at the solution but at another problem that the mind is creating. If you are doing a two link then cut your strips thinner so that the meat is not touching
at any spot
when the humidity is high, do they not soften and fold?
No. this will only happen if you spray the product down or give them a bath
can you re-use them?
If your sausage are not being smoked (cardboard strips would accompany to smokehouse re; new ones) then do a one time use – this from a health issue or you could make Plexiglas (acrylic) strips
do you not worry about them bringing in unsterile meanies?
As said fresh/new ones are a one (1) time use as they go with the product into smokehouse and then they are in a sense sealed
my chamber is small and with no airflow - things have to be very clean.
Small is no problem as for air flow you can try André method of keeping the door open a crack (?) As for clean – there is a point that one can go overboard, please do not get me wrong – yes I keep things clean but very clean (?) if that was to happen then I would not get the good moulds forming
dude, i'm the down-town toronto rented-apartment no-basement version of what you got going on... one day i'll get the proper facilities, meanwhile i'm closet curing.
You are probably in the same type of digs as my son who is a short (?) distant away from Ryerson University
Hope the above is some help