Dry curing meat.

[JamesNotBond]

Tree, you must get your butt over to my side of town sometime again, I will tell you tales of limestone field tomatoes and hillside hams. Climates where chickens and legs of curing meat hang in cafe type shops, beautiful dry, firm chickens, so unlike the slimy dead things we buy cling wrapped from fridges.

[oafpatroll]

Tree, you must get your butt over to my side of town sometime again, I will tell you tales of limestone field tomatoes and hillside hams. Climates where chickens and legs of curing meat hang in cafe type shops, beautiful dry, firm chickens, so unlike the slimy dead things we buy cling wrapped from fridges.

I roasted a 'werf runner' chicken that I bought live from locals in the Transkei once. My professional city slicker mates who were on the trip with us couldn't believe that it was nominally the same species as a supermarket chicken. A genuinely free range chicken that eats mostly what it finds is as unlike a factory raised one as a bushpig is to a factory porker.

[Treeman]

Truly free range chickens are not easily consumed by average Joe, myself very included, they just taste so NOT what you used too. The term "it tastes funny" will be heard.

[Ds J]

Free range chicken looks and tastes much like guinea-fowl. Dark, rubbery meat with a "bloody" taste, similar to blesbuck.

[Ds J]

Hi Treeman, any feedback on the meat, or new ideas and results to share with us?

[Treeman]

The hung ham was just too small at 1.1 kg abouts, it dried an outer case that was almost to the center. At 2 months it was biltong. Cody ate most of the core which was like less flavoured biltong, the rest was sliced as doggie treats.
I will try this again in winter with a larger piece of meat.

I in the meantime have made formed hams the formed hams were great, even if lacking in appearance.

[JamesNotBond]

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The slow cooker melts the collagen into the meat, the pressure cooker destroys it. Pretty much like difference in mincing meat to make mince and driving over it 3 times with a 5 ton truck wheel to make mince.

That makes sense. Probably works on the same principle as the one that prevents 9 pregnant women from being able to produce a baby in 1 month.