Venison ham

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Venison ham

Postby culinairezaken » Thu Feb 07, 2013 10:37 am

Hello everybody,

Tomorrow i will receive 2 venison hindlegs.

I want to cure them and hot smoke them.

Anyone ever tried it?

Tips and tricks?

Thanks!
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Postby Oddwookiee » Thu Feb 07, 2013 4:14 pm

I've done quite a lot of them, they work out just fine. You can treat it just like a pork ham as far as your favorite curing & smoking procedure and it will be very similar in end product. You can also treat it as pork ham but 'overcook' it. Instead of taking it to 145-150F on a hot smoke, take it to 160-165 and use it as a 'dried beef' product. Think of high-end chipped beef, like used as thin sliced lunch meat or in SOS. Thinly sliced, the fully cooked adn slightly dried deer has a fantastic flavor and a dense enough grain that it takes to thin slicing perfectly.
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Re: Venison ham

Postby culinairezaken » Wed Feb 13, 2013 8:15 pm

The hams are finaly in the cure.

i made a cure with juniper, pepper, bay and a little garlic and rasemary.

the pieces are injected and i''ll leave them in the cure for 4 days while there small pieces.
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Re: Venison ham

Postby culinairezaken » Sun Feb 17, 2013 3:44 pm

ok, Bambi is cured!

i lit the kamado with some applewood,

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and put bambi on the grill!

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it's just small pieces i'm afraid....
The hunter that brought it to me told me very proud he already deboned it....
next time i'll do it myself..... :evil:

smokin'!

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