Thread: Venison silverside

Had a go at this tonight @EeeBees , wish me luck. I didn't use the saltpetre as I hear all it does it impart the red colouring. Is this true in your experience?

@Pointer, best of luck with this...saltpetre...it does help to preserve in a way although I am sure it is mostly the salt, but as you write it does help maintain the colour although you do not necessarily need it ...I have never made this recipe without using saltpetre...

Originally Posted by Pointer

Had a go at this tonight @EeeBees , wish me luck. I didn't use the saltpetre as I hear all it does it impart the red colouring. Is this true in your experience?

11days i think... sorry raw and cooked are two different bits of meat but the same batch.







This lot was not so red but I am not cooking it.

This one was 8 ish hours all but coverd in water in a slow cooker and was devine if not red.

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BREAK OUT THE PICKLE!!!!!

Originally Posted by Tommy

BREAK OUT THE PICKLE!!!!!

If only my wife was into preserving.

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Saltpetre is potassium Nitrate, one third of the components to manufacturing Gunpowder, and a known Carcinogen

If you can avoid using it then good as Our health is the most valuable thing we possess.


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Originally Posted by 7mmsaum

Saltpetre is potassium Nitrate, one third of the components to manufacturing Gunpowder, and a known Carcinogen

If you can avoid using it then good as Our health is the most valuable thing we possess.


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Yep well aware of its other uses. Its the only reason i have any(black powder manufacture)
If it is so bad for us you should inform my great grand parents grand parents and so far parents who all but my parents(still living and very well thanks) lived well into there 80s. Only one of these died of bowl cancer all other deaths Attubuted to "old age"
These are generations brought up on bacon an eggs for breakfast every day lard sandwidges for lunch and bloody shitloads of lard or butter on or in anything they ate.

To be honest I am far more concened about traces of poisions in my familys water supply than any dickheads study of ancient preserving methods.

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Worrying about chemicals in the water supply is a valid fear if you have children.

Im surprised someone hasn't written to every reporter in NZ telling them their governing friends approve of 1080 being dropped in the headwaters of our main rivers, that supply the wineries, that add that water to the wine, that they drink.

They would get a reaction

Check the LD number of caffeine/ coffee, you will be surprised


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Originally Posted by 7mmsaum

Worrying about chemicals in the water supply is a valid fear if you have children.

Im surprised someone hasn't written to every reporter in NZ telling them their governing friends approve of 1080 being dropped in the headwaters of our main rivers, that supply the wineries, that add that water to the wine, that they drink.

They would get a reaction

Check the LD number of caffeine/ coffee, you will be surprised


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Im sure they have already and the reaction would be to discredit and lable the inividual a "crackpot"

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Did the Graf lads get far with their efforts ?


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I dont know I dont follow them or any other "activest"

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Ahem! For the uneducated can you explain what an LD number is?

Also an LD ( lethal dose) number is given as a value of micrograms of product required per kg of body weight to kill.

6 grams of caffeine per 50kg of body weight will take your life from you.

With the exception of coffie I have exceded those "lethal doses" by many times on quite a number of occasions as would have most people.

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