Hard salami (made from pork belly)

[John Kimble]

Picture was right after I stuffed and hung the.
48 hours now hanging over the counter. I take it and put it into the cave tomorrow.
I stead of a 4lb shoulder 1lb backfat ratio, I did 2.5lb of really nice pork loin and 2.5lb of pork belly. The fat ratio is beautiful and they smell like heaven.

 

[John Kimble]

Put them into the fermentation cave at 55F at 80% RH yesterday.
They smell incredible.

 

[JONNYROTTEN]

thats awesome I NEED to do this. Whats the fermentation cave. Can I use my beer ferm chamber when not in use? How do you monitor and adjust the humidity

 

[John Kimble]

The fermentation cave is a repurposed restaurant fridge. Some guys here helped me to bipass the wiring and install an inline inkbird temp control unit to work in concert with the existing compressor control pannel.
I would not recommend the Beer ferment chamber as the fermentation timeline for salami and cheese is months on end, and requires a higher relative humidity than I would be comfortable having in my beer fermentation chamber.
To control the humidity I have a large humidifier hooked up to an external inkbird humidity control device. You need to get a humidifier that has a hard on/off switch and won't reset when powered off.
I keep the humidity between 80-85%.

 

[JONNYROTTEN]

The fermentation cave is a repurposed restaurant fridge. Some guys here helped me to bipass the wiring and install an inline inkbird temp control unit to work in concert with the existing compressor control pannel.
I would not recommend the Beer ferment chamber as the fermentation timeline for salami and cheese is months on end, and requires a higher relative humidity than I would be comfortable having in my beer fermentation chamber.
To control the humidity I have a large humidifier hooked up to an external inkbird humidity control device. You need to get a humidifier that has a hard on/off switch and won't reset when powered off.
I keep the humidity between 80-85%.

Geez louise....thats alot for sausage...I dont have a spare fridge and Electric around here is a killer. The humidifier for months on end would cost me fortune....looks like that aint happening...bummer

 

[John Kimble]

That's just what I have to do because I am in Florida. If you have a basement that maintains a low temp year round you can hang them there and just run a small humidifier underneath them and make a garbage bag cave to trap moisture.