Things we make.

[Budgie Smuggler]

Mr M, something tells me that you would get along very well with VTG.

It'd be like having a couple of stogie smoking McGyvers.

[MrMaduro]

Is it not a like a oven made of wood?

I see how it looks in the pics! But no it is NOT an oven! It doesn't even get warm! The lightbulb with the airflow going through the box has the internal temperature about 25 degrees! The idea of it it to help draw the moisture from the meat slowly over a few days. If you use heat, you will cook it. That's not what you want to do. If the temp is too high, it seals the outside of the meat, sealing the moisture in and not allowing it to dry out.

[cigarmo]

Is it not a like a oven made of wood?

[MrMaduro]

Is that not what health and safety would class as a fire hazard?

Care to elaborate?

[cigarmo]

Is that not what health and safety would class as a fire hazard?

[MrMaduro]

Okie doke! I said I'd post up a few more random 'things' I've made after I posted my Bushcraft knife a couple of weeks back. Next up is my homemade Biltong curing box.

uploadfromtaptalk1415140197871.jpg

uploadfromtaptalk1415140219866.jpg

For those who don't know, Biltong is a South African staple. It's seasoned and marinated dried beef, dried over a few days in large pieces and then cut into small slithers before you eat it.

The box, I knocked up from some old scraps of 1/4" mdf I had in the garage. I had a lot of these pieces already cut into rectangles as they used to be the shelves in an old pidgeon hole unit. I saved them from the skip as I always knew they'd come in handy for something one day!

I installed a 60 watt lightbulb in the bottom and a 12v PC fan mounted in the top, extracting the air which is drawn into the unit from holes in the sides of the lower section. The box slowly dries the meat over a few days and it works a treat (if I do say so myself)!

I made this a while back and have done a fair few batches of Biltong now. Took a bit of experimenting in the begining with flavours and timings but once I nailed the process it usually turns out pretty nice now!

Anyways I picked up a silverside joint tonight and have just put another batch in!

uploadfromtaptalk1415140892525.jpg

uploadfromtaptalk1415140920450.jpg

Should be ready for munching from Friday onwards! Nom Nom Nom!

Also the house smells AWESOME when this stuff goes in!

uploadfromtaptalk1415141034705.jpg

Sent from Tapa Tapa land

[Trickle]

Thanks guys, can't wait to hang them in the den.

[Sean]

They look great trickle exactly why i want to do

[cohibaIV]

I have been collecting cigar bands for a couple of years with the intention of creating something to hang on my (future) cigar den wall. This weekend I have finally done it! Fairly happy with it. I have made a CC and a NC picture. Even the forum band features!

No I am gutted that I have never saved a cigar band...

Great idea

CIV

[Sgt_Banter]

I have been collecting cigar bands for a couple of years with the intention of creating something to hang on my (future) cigar den wall. This weekend I have finally done it! Fairly happy with it. I have made a CC and a NC picture. Even the forum band features!

That looks awesome!

[ValeTudoGuy]

I like them!

[wolfie]

very nice mate and personal to you

that will look class in the den

[oskihen]

Really Nice like it a lot

[PeeJay]

Good effort Simon!

[Trickle]

I have been collecting cigar bands for a couple of years with the intention of creating something to hang on my (future) cigar den wall. This weekend I have finally done it! Fairly happy with it. I have made a CC and a NC picture. Even the forum band features!