Love using drops for burger meat.
On the dried meat, what is proccess in brine, temo, time, cut etc. And how do you prepare afterwards?
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Not all that difficult. I took some backstrap and cut it into 4 one pound pieces. Rub one tablespoon of tenderquick and one tablespoon of brown sugar on each one pound piece. I just do it on paper plates.
Then Get two one gallon zip locks I put two pieces into each gallon ziplock and dump the left over TQ and brown sugar in as well. It’s important to get the right amount of tenderquick on these. Stick them in the fridge for 7 days turning once a day.
After 7 days rinse them off and pat dry. Put on some cracked black pepper, and sprinkle a little garlic and onion powder on them. Note put on as much black pepper as suits your taste. Put in the fridge uncovered overnight.
Get your smoker up to 150 stick them in smoker without smoke for half hour. Crank smoker to 160 and turn on the smoke. I use a pellet tube with hickory pellets. Once they seem to level out temp wise around 135/140 bump it up to 190 when they hit 150 I bump it up again. When they hit 160 your done. Took this batch 9 hours. You can fiddle with the temps any way you want just don’t go to fast. Every smoker is different. I used an MES 30 for these. I wouldn’t go much faster than I did these.
let them cool off for a bit. Wrap in Saran Wrap and stick in fridge for a full 24 hours. Take them out and slice thin.
Before and after smoked

