Showing posts with label safety. Show all posts
Showing posts with label safety. Show all posts

Saturday, December 18, 2010

Managing room temp

The biggest challenge will be keeping the room at optimal temp 34-38 dgF for nearly a month straight. Luckily it's December so that helps.

I am doing a combination of things in order to keep the room at a safe temp.

1. Under each ham tray is another tray with a layer of ice between them.

2. Another 50 pounds of ice is in a cooler directly under the work table.

3. I have cut a hole in the insulation that is in front of a drafty basement window. A steady stream of cold air gets in the room and stay there.

4. The wine fridge I put in the wall is on full blast with the door open.


I've been able to keep it from 34-38 on average and never over 40 dgs which happen in your fridge all the time.

After this initial salting is over I will be bringing the room up to 50-60 dgF which will be easy