DIY Biltong

[RichS]

Now as some may be aware the wife and baby are upping sticks shortly for foreign climes while the house gets repainted inside. For those of us who are left (i.e. me, the cats and a few cases of claret) I have been occupied in the serious contemplation of my viewing selection (top list of war films, tick).

As for fodder, I was out today for lunch with a very decent South African bloke (I know, I know, oxymoron ahoy) and he was waxing lyrical about biltong. I bloody love biltong, so the DIY project for the duration of the Great Abandonment is for me to build a biltong box and to make- and indeed consume- said meat-based product...

Full details here: http://www.biltongbox.com/biltong.html Photos will follow, up to and including the trip to A&E, if anyone's interested...

R

[tonym911]

I'm interested, I love biltong in all its horridly expensive varieties, but how do you stop the ingress of insects and other undesirables into the (perforated) biltong box?

[RichS]

Maybe you positively encourage them as a bit of extra protein? Dunno, good point. Perhaps fine mesh? Maybe you put the box somewhere the light's not going to attract insects in the first place, like under the stairs?

[tonym911]

Under the stairs is where I go if I want to meet lots of insects.

I'm all for this, so I'm with you all the way on it, but in the interests of not starting the next Black Plague I need to know I'm not building a germ box or some sort of modern day equivalent of the larder on the Bounty after six months at sea in the Tropics.

[Shaw Tarse]

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[tonym911]

Shaw Tarse said:

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Aha! Turbo Biltong! I fully endorse the logic of saving a fortune by munching artery-busting quantities of homemade biltong, rather than purchasing smaller quantities from F&M.

[otolith]

tonym911 said:

artery-busting quantities of homemade biltong

OK, it's probably got more cholesterol than James Corden's coronary arteries and the fat is saturated, but the stuff they sell in our local convenience store is actually pretty good value in the calories versus taste and fullness stakes.