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Watch this space the Guanciale takes 5 weeks to cure

It has 0.3mm wire & maximum 1mm holes Here's a link https://amzn.to/43rN2lW

We honestly rarely buy meat in shops now. We rear it, hunt it or buy direct from another smallholder. Better quality, cheaper, higher welfare.

Bacon is always popular :). I'm thinking of smoking the honey cure on cherry wood.

As old hands here will know, we cure our own bacon, make jerky, butcher our own meat etc. Something we haven't had before is a proper, old fashioned, meat safe, but we are increasingly looking at air cured meats & have started experimenting so it's time. Our first attempt is Guanciale (pepper...

I know you don't want a physical fence but a few strands of electric fence are effective. Happy to advise (we've done this for a number of people)

I would have gone to court. eBay tried something similar on me. We took them to court, represented ourselves (against their massive international firm) and won. Judge wiped the floor with their legal eagle & awarded claim plus interest. :biggrin: I have to be honest & say that I took great...

Yup I layer rootstocks in this way but often lay an entire 3' sapling in the ground with just the top leaves proud. I can get 6 or more rootstocks like that

Yeah Amazon is expensive for heavy stuff in the shops. I must pick up a couple of bottles next time I'm in town

JBO is £7 a litre in Boots. Is the stuff you use really £3.50 a litre? If so, can I have a link please? https://www.boots.com/johnsons-baby-oil-500ml-10260584

These days I add 20% Johnson's Baby oil which makes for a softer block. For a true paste I suspect 40%+ oil

I use some oil in mine when I want a softer consistency. 10% still sets as a hard block

Not so much truck stops but good old fashioned Caffs selling the same type of food are, thankfully, plentiful in South Lincolnshire. I recall when we came here I bought 2 mahoosive full English, 2 pots of tea, two plates of bread & butter in a fab cafe. Formica table with vinyl chairs...

Except a scythe and a pale horse. Called Binky.

It's fine. It's on your land & you didn't hunt or catch it in an illegal way. If you haven't time to dress it, pinch the skin over the breast bone and slit the skin open pulling it apart. Take a sharp slim knife & line it up with the breast bone along the length of the bird. Keeping the blade...

I recall "Bad Step" being aptly named (that was long before the bridge mind you)

Ian could probably make a teaspoon do that - he is the God of sharpening :notworthy2:

Since we are in England we have cockerels ;) In fact we have just fertility tested this years Orpington breeding cockerel Hercules Candling an egg by English Countrylife, on Flickr

In a previous life I was a technology project manager, then programme manager then head of Projects & Programmes for major retailers. Now we have a number of smaller income streams. These include; Running our online shop, Writing for magazines, Creating content for a YouTube channel, Giving...

Reviving this thread because we have received a lot of queries about portable power stations after all the recent power cuts. We have tested a goodly number of these devices now & this weeks video covers What they are How they work The types of appliances that they can run A comparison of...