I suggest you store all meat in your garage. 2 weekends ago was best, this
weekend was still pretty good for our purpose.

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Kent H. wrote:
> Also, it's very hard to find an injection cured raw ham that you
> "smoke
> cook" in the barbecue. If you barbecue almost all cured and smoked ham
> you are essentially warming up something that is already cooked. You
> don't gain much. Because of the anatomical nature of pork leg it's
> almost impossible to cure it by other than injecting it. Therefore
> it's
> not something you can accomplish at home. Following that you smoke and
> cook in the usual barbecue fashion.
> One of the few uncooked cured hams around is Burgers Smokehouse Ozark
> Ham. Look at:
>
http://www.smokehouse.com/burgers.nsf/d4cfaba07ae6a652862566b7004faa5f/f96d7e909b2c7a98862568f5006b682e!OpenDocument
>
> "Kevin S. Wilson" wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 16:56:57 GMT, "Kent H." >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I am brining a rack of baby back ribs in a brine containing .25 cups
>>> salt/quart. 1/4 or 25% of the salt is curing salt with .65%
>>> nitrite. I
>>> plan to barbecue the ribs today after 48 hours of curing.
>>> Has anyone tried this with curing salt?
>>> If so, did you use 100% curing salt, or cut it like I did?
>>> Does this change your cooking temp. and your cooking time?
>>> The brine is assertively seasoned[garlic, allspice, pepper, caraway,
>>> fennel, etc.]. Would you apply a dry rub before cooking?
>>> Would you paint the ribs with vinegar before cooking, or do anything
>>> like this? I usually paint with vinegar, usually cider, before
>>> grilling.
>>> I plan to cook indirectly in the Weber at about 225F for as long as
>>> it
>>> takes to get to the "fall apart" stage.
>>
>> Most people who want to smoke a ham start with a ham. It doesn't
>> surprise me that you overlooked this crucial first step.
>>
>>> Thanks for any advice.
>>
>> Anytime.
>>
>> --
>> Kevin S. Wilson
>> Tech Writer at a university somewhere in Idaho
>> "When you can't do something completely impractical and intrinsically
>> useless *yourself*, you go get the Kibologists to do it for you."
>> --J. Furr

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