bocephus you can get new rubber gaskets on Amazon and eBay. I use my parents. Just bought a new gasket and good to go.

I always add Montreal steak seasoning (1t for pint and 1T for a qt) and a clove of fresh minced garlic when I can mine.

mrobisr I stand corrected. I did some investigating and you are correct. I found a copycat recipe for the Tenderquick without the nitrates. I will try next time. I just hate to change!!! Took me many years of trial and error to get it the way we like it.

chippewa with the price of bacon going thru the roof I will be doing more of this.

mrobisr yes that is true. But in your article it says blends are safe to use. And that is all I am saying about the subject. Thanks for pointing it out.

mrobisr I read the article and it says the tenderquick is fine as long as directions are followed. It does say not to use just nitrates though.

I made another batch of peppered buckboard bacon.

Roughly 12 #
I used the top halves of 2 Boston butts with the fat caps. Also smoked the bones for bean soup.
Brined for 7 days with a tenderquick ,maple sugar and brown sugar blend
Cold smoked at 125* for around 5 hours
Let sit a couple days then mostly froze and sliced.
Came out great!!!

twilliams congratulations to you and your wife!!! Great buck and more meat to play with.

Dr_Pain that looks so good. I would love to taste it !!!

mrobisr thank you so much. I placed the order for it.

The new system is not checkout friendly. I spent over an hour trying to checkout and had to get help from Jonathan who helped. He said my cart was empty on your end. but clearly was full on my end. I was very close to ordering elsewhere!!!

I have standard dial calipers Trying to find the best balance of stuff ability and fitting on the tube. My Hakka tubes are way to small and just to big.

I have a 15 # Hakka stuffer and want to use the 13mm Waltons tube to make 19mm snack sticks. The Hakka tube has a 2” OD at the base and just wanted to make sure the Waltons one was the same size.

marzig20 looks and sounds amazing!! waiting to hear how it came out when you fry it. The extra pickling spice in the jars kinda scares me. Lol. I don’t like a lot of it as it leaves a bad aftertaste for me.

PapaSop I like the loaves better than the meat sticks a lot of the time. So much more smoke flavor.

rb_sailorman I added a mailbox mod and way better results!!

ND Mike I would like to know the ratio as well. I love the Willies sticks so the ground jerky has me interested

Jamieson22 those sound amazing!! And that outdoors kitchen is the bomb!!

That is amazing!! Good job

What types of wood do you like for cheese?