This time of year, turkey gets a lot of attention. But let’s be real, turkey is massively overrated. It's dry. It’s flavorless. And cooking it wrong can burn down your house. Enter: ham, the ...

Curing meat is why humans could stay put when there was nothing to grow, kill or steal. It is how conquerors and discoverers lasted while they traveled the world. But the refrigerator and the modern ...

Often times, commercial meat producers put rice flour or a similar white flour/powder on their salami to maintain the appearance that mold would have provided. From the hills of Italy to the Spanish ...

Did you know that you can cure meat at home using nothing more than a wine refrigerator? This was my first attempt at meat curing, and I’d say it went fantastically well. This project was inspired by ...

Imagine your favorite cured meat like beef jerky, pepperoni or bacon without any added sodium nitrite from any source currently necessary for color and shelf life. Wes Osburn, Ph.D., is doing exactly ...

I was curious as to how Brad Jump, son of Roger and Lorene Jump, of Danby, got interested in the process of curing meat. Brad says his family has a history of curing, and he was inspired in particular ...

Curing meat Osburn has been researching the idea of a novel amino acid alternative curing system for meat for many years. In 2022, he received a $500,000 U.S. Department of Agriculture–Agriculture and ...