So my daughter asked me to make pastrami again. Rather than give up a huge chunk of the usable fridge space for 2 weeks to make pastrami, I just added a meat fridge. It fits 2 of my curing containers perfectly.
So, now I can:
1)Store more beer as needed
2) Cure pastrami easily
3) Dry brine meat on a rack instead of in a plastic bag
4) Dry age meat
What else can I do with a meat fridge?
I am actually planning on leaving it mostly empty so I have room for the above tasks as needed versus not having room anywhere (e.g main fridge) for anything I’d be keeping in there.
I realize there have been several of these posts on dry aging of late, but I had started this process almost two months ago so I thought I would go ahead and post this. This is a step
Smokin-It 3D
Weber Kettle with an SNS
Masterbuilt kettle that I call the $30 wonder grill
Bullet by Bull Grills gasser
Anova WiFi sous vide machine
Thermoworks Thermapen and Chef Alarm
Umai Bags are all i have used, both for dry aging meat as well as charcuterie. I’ve posted about both on the board, rib primals, pancetta and a variety of charcuterie.
For meat, they have sampler pack that I feel is the best thing to buy so you can dry age various things.
I bought this one because it was the only one to fit my large Rubbermaid curing containers (I took one with me to Best Buy). I cure a full packer split into point and flat at the same time. You could get by with smaller ones if your containers fit.
Congratulations!! I just got a defacto meat fridge as well. My fridge fridge died and this dude held me over until I could pick up a replacement. It is now on standby.
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