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Main Boards => Recipes/Grilling/ Barbecuing/Smokers => Topic started by: Traditional-Archer on February 23, 2014, 07:40:00 PM
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I wanted to fire up the smoke house again so I decided to make some chipped venison. Here is my recipe.
25lb of deboned trimmed venison
12.5 quarts of water or 2.5 quart per 5 pounds of meat
20 tablespoons of salt
10 tablespoons of tender quick meat cure
25 tablespoons of brown sugar
I mixed all ingredients into the 12.5 quarts of water and separated one gallon for my meat brine injector.
I added the 25lbs of venison into the brine and then I took the gallon of brine and started injecting the meat, when I would see the meat start to plump up I would move to another spot and then to another piece of meat, I did this until all of the meat was full of brine inside and out.
I didn't have a big enough refrigerator so I used my big meat cooler I use for hunting trips. I just kept making sure the temperature in the cooler did not freeze and never got above 40 D/F. I then would turn the meat every morning and every evening when I would get home from work. After 6 days in the brine I pulled the meat and let it drain.
After I put everything together I stuffed my netting to hang the meat in my smoke house.
I fired the smoke house up to 150 D/F then I maintained the temperature for two days. I left the meat in my smoke house for another 5 days not put to any heat. The following weekend I cut the pieces in half to dry the inside just a little more to my liking.
I sliced the venison with my meat slicer as thin as I could.
This sounds like a lot of work but break it down and it’s not as bad as it sounds and the rewords way out way the time it takes to make the chipped venison.
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Man that looks good, I have had chipped venison before but never made any.
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When I saw the title I said to myself this guys has to be from Pa.
Thanks I am going to have to try this.
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Never heard of this. Looks interesting.
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This is new to me.
What do you do with the meat after this process?
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cut the pieces thin or use a chipper. I will post some pictures when I pull some from the freezer.
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this is one way to prepare your dried venison. (http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z166/Traditional-Archer/IMG_20130313_211337_806_zps07fb89e7.jpg) (http://s190.photobucket.com/user/Traditional-Archer/media/IMG_20130313_211337_806_zps07fb89e7.jpg.html)
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I wish the pictures were still here.