Letters To The Editor

Dear Editor,

Sure wish you would write about how our forefathers cut, dried, and smoked their meat. We were talking to a friend and he said something about slicing the meat, putting it into a box layered with salt and then smoking it, but that was all I got. We may someday need to go back to the old way of fixing meat if we have meat.

Thank you for the good articles they really help a lot with preparing for the future.

Dear MC,

If a 1,200 to 3,000 word article would accurately share how to cure meat, we would have written one a long time ago. Quite frankly, smoking meat isn’t as easy as just hanging up a slab of meat and building a fire underneath it. It’s actually a very involved process that must be managed just right in order not to kill everyone with botulism or ruin the meat. It’s a wonderful and lost art, and as a society, we’re the worse off for having lost that knowledge. In fact, the only person I know who has a smokehouse is an old man on the coast who lives five hours away from me. I heard about him through an acquaintance. My husband and I have wanted to take a few days to drive down there and stay a couple of days just to learn from him, but unfortunately, the time has not been available.

We’ll try to put together a series of articles that will introduce everyone to curing meat, and I mean smokehouse meat, not something you put in a Brinkmann smoker. That’s not true meat curing. However, anyone that is seriously interested in the art of smokehouse meat and learning how to build a smokehouse needs to get the book Meat Smoking and Smokehouse Design by Stanley, Adam, and Robert Marianski. It’s an invaluable resource.

The Editor

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Dear Editor,

I’ve been on the Internet and looked at some of these wood gasifiers which can run cars, gasoline generators, etc. I’m having a real problem finding a manufacturer and/or detailed instructions to build one of these gasifiers, specifically for a gas generator. On the Internet I saw a generator operating on gas which was produced by burning wood. I would like to request your investigative expertise to help me find detailed instructions to build a gasifier.

Bob

Dear Bob,

Here is a great website that has all types of links for building plans on wood gasifiers and articles on them. https://www.woodgasifiers.com/ I haven’t found a manufacture of one yet. Hope this helps you in your search for information!

The Editor

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