Checking in from Nelson, New Zealand. I have already retired and making meat products for my leisure is just fun. I first started out in 2002 with making cheese and kept it going until a few years back when the price of milk here did not make it worth the while. But as from 2004 I also started making my own farmer sausages and later trying salami which was a disaster on the first try. Now I have a grip on the know-how and make fermented, dry and fresh sausages all the time. I started to smoke products with my BBQ, but it did not go well. I bought a drum BBQ, cooker, smoker and I quickly realized it was to small. I watch some guys on YouTube and made my own little smoking devise, got a 44 gallon drum and now it just work perfect. I hope to get some great ideas here from all the nice smoking cooking people on Meatgistic!

I did not much on meat though, just checked my salami’s then got into cutting a few pounds of Texas Grano onions, making curried onion salad for the winter. Yeah, I think I have arrived at the right site for my craving! Thank you all for the very warm welcome!

Looks so good! I will be around shortly to collect some Elk from you!

YooperDog Yeah, this onion thing is a cold preserve/salad, we just love spicy food! This year we did not have fruit or veggies from our garden, seems to much rain and low temp. We normally gather and preserve, loads of jams and jellies too. I saw somebody mentioned “down under”, now that would be in Australia and here we say “Just across the ditch” to indicate Oz is our neighbor.