Charcuterie For Dummies
The world of charcuterie is at your fingertips

Even if you’ve never cooked a slab of bacon in your life, you can prepare sausage and cured meats at home! In Charcuterie for Dummies, you’ll learn everything you could possibly need to get started, from choosing the right gear and finding quality raw ingredients, all the way through taking your parties to the next level with epic charcuterie boards.

Salami, bacon, prosciutto, and good-old-fashioned sausage are all on the menu with Charcuterie for Dummies. Author and meat master Mark LaFay will help you keep things safe and sanitary, equip you with some seriously awesome recipes, and teach you a thing or two about which beers and wines to serve up with your meat. Choose a chapter and get started!

  • Get started curing meats at home with the highest quality raw ingredients, equipment, and recipes
  • Make everything from sausage and bacon to prosciutto, salami, and more
  • Learn how to pair your homemade meats with jams, nuts, cheeses, and pickles for epic charcuterie boards
  • Take your new hobby to the next level with more advanced recipes and beverage pairings

Whether you’re a total beginner or coming in with some previous knowledge, Charcuterie for Dummies will unleash your culinary creativity!

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Charcuterie For Dummies
The world of charcuterie is at your fingertips

Even if you’ve never cooked a slab of bacon in your life, you can prepare sausage and cured meats at home! In Charcuterie for Dummies, you’ll learn everything you could possibly need to get started, from choosing the right gear and finding quality raw ingredients, all the way through taking your parties to the next level with epic charcuterie boards.

Salami, bacon, prosciutto, and good-old-fashioned sausage are all on the menu with Charcuterie for Dummies. Author and meat master Mark LaFay will help you keep things safe and sanitary, equip you with some seriously awesome recipes, and teach you a thing or two about which beers and wines to serve up with your meat. Choose a chapter and get started!

  • Get started curing meats at home with the highest quality raw ingredients, equipment, and recipes
  • Make everything from sausage and bacon to prosciutto, salami, and more
  • Learn how to pair your homemade meats with jams, nuts, cheeses, and pickles for epic charcuterie boards
  • Take your new hobby to the next level with more advanced recipes and beverage pairings

Whether you’re a total beginner or coming in with some previous knowledge, Charcuterie for Dummies will unleash your culinary creativity!

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Charcuterie For Dummies

Charcuterie For Dummies

by Mark LaFay
Charcuterie For Dummies

Charcuterie For Dummies

by Mark LaFay

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Overview

The world of charcuterie is at your fingertips

Even if you’ve never cooked a slab of bacon in your life, you can prepare sausage and cured meats at home! In Charcuterie for Dummies, you’ll learn everything you could possibly need to get started, from choosing the right gear and finding quality raw ingredients, all the way through taking your parties to the next level with epic charcuterie boards.

Salami, bacon, prosciutto, and good-old-fashioned sausage are all on the menu with Charcuterie for Dummies. Author and meat master Mark LaFay will help you keep things safe and sanitary, equip you with some seriously awesome recipes, and teach you a thing or two about which beers and wines to serve up with your meat. Choose a chapter and get started!

  • Get started curing meats at home with the highest quality raw ingredients, equipment, and recipes
  • Make everything from sausage and bacon to prosciutto, salami, and more
  • Learn how to pair your homemade meats with jams, nuts, cheeses, and pickles for epic charcuterie boards
  • Take your new hobby to the next level with more advanced recipes and beverage pairings

Whether you’re a total beginner or coming in with some previous knowledge, Charcuterie for Dummies will unleash your culinary creativity!


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781119690788
Publisher: Wiley
Publication date: 07/21/2020
Series: For Dummies Books
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 7.30(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Mark LaFay is the founder of Old Major Market, a virtual artisanal butcher shop in Indianapolis. He started in 2016 with a vision for a new way of retailing artisanal meats and provisions directly to consumers without a brick and mortar store. LaFay is a serial entrepreneur, butcher, certified sommelier, the Abe Frohman of Indianapolis, and the 2015 and 2017 Indiana State Fair Backyard BBQ Grand Champion.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

About This Book 1

Foolish Assumptions 2

Icons Used In This Book 3

Beyond the Book 3

Where To Go From Here 3

Part 1 Getting Started with Charcuterie 5

Chapter 1 Get the Gear 7

Meat Grinders 8

Manual meat grinders 9

KitchenAid mixer attachment grinder 9

Electric meat grinders 11

Sizing and choosing your grinder 12

Sausage Stuffers 13

Meat Slicer 14

Smokers 16

Curing Chambers 17

Scientific Meters 19

Water activity meter 19

pH meter 20

Small Wares 20

Properly Caring for Your Gear 21

Caring for your grinder 21

Caring for your stuffer 21

Shopping for Gear Locally 22

Shopping for Gear Online 23

Chapter 2 Working with Potentially Hazardous Food 25

Personal Hygiene 26

Aprons 27

Hair restraints 27

Food-safe gloves 28

Before You Get Started 28

Protecting Against Pathogens of Concern 30

Common interventions to control or kill bacteria 30

Temperature control 32

Pathogens of Concern 33

Salmonella 33

Staphylococcus 33

Campylobacter 33

Listeria monocytogenes 34

Clostridium botulinum and C. perfringens 34

Escherichi coli O157:H7 34

Trichinella 35

How to Find Help 35

Chapter 3 Quality In, Quality Out 39

Thinking Twice about Commodity Protein 40

Purchasing Protein from a Farmer 41

Meat the Butcher 44

Working with Wild Game 46

Selecting Your Spices 47

Salt of the earth 48

Sodium nitrite / nitrate 50

Celery juice powders 51

Part 2 Making Meat Treats 53

Chapter 4 Fresh and Dry-Cured Whole Muscles 55

Fresh-Cured Bacons 56

Dry-Cured Meats 65

Minding mold 65

Drying to preserve 66

Tying the knot 67

Documenting details 68

Curing Seafood 77

Chapter 5 Grinding and Stuffing Sausage 81

Grinding Sausages! 82

Meat preparations 83

Spices are the spice of life 84

Time to grind 85

Emulsified Sausages 87

A Word about Casings 88

Where to buy sausage casings 90

Care and prep of casings 92

Stuffing and Linking Sausage 93

Stuffing sausage 95

Linking sausage 98

Chapter 6 Getting Fresh with Sausages 101

Chapter 7 You Say Salami, I Say Salame 113

Fermenting Sausage 114

Using a lactic acid starter culture 115

Letting your sausages ferment 116

Testing the pH of your sausages 118

Ensuring Your Salami Is Secure with a Bubble Knot 121

Molding the Next Generation of Salami 122

Drying Your Salami 124

Part 3 Entertaining with Charcuterie 137

Chapter 8 Always the Entertainer 139

Sourcing Great Proteins 140

Say Cheese 142

Soft and semi-soft cheese 142

Medium-hard cheese 144

Hard cheese 146

Condiments and Accouterments 148

Bringing It All Together! 151

Proper portioning 151

The platter 152

Arranging your board 153

Chapter 9 Wine and Charcuterie 161

Making Wine 162

In the vineyard 162

In the winery 164

Red Wines 166

Cabernet Sauvignon 168

Pinot Noir 169

Merlot 169

Syrah 170

Sangiovese 171

White Wines 171

Chardonnay 173

Riesling 174

Sauvignon Blanc 175

Pinot Grigio / Pinot Gris 176

Chapter 10 Beer and Charcuterie 177

Making Beer 178

Popular Beer Styles 180

Standard American beer 180

Wheat beer 181

Belgian ales 182

India pale ale 183

American stouts 184

Sours 185

Part 4 The Part of Tens 187

Chapter 11 Ten Wines Under $25 to Impress Your Guests 189

Joseph Drouhin Saint-Véran Chardonnay 190

Pico Maccario Lavignone Barbera d'Asti 190

Substance Cabernet 191

Gouguenheim Malbec Reserva 191

Pierre Sparr Cremant Rosé 192

Theorize Zinfandel 193

Roger Neveu Sancerre 193

Angelo Negro Angelin Langhe Nebbiolo 194

Mestres 1312 Cava Brut Reserva 195

Campuget 1753 Rosé 195

Chapter 12 Ten Meats You Must Try 197

La Querela Acorn Edition Prosciutto 197

Smoking Goose Delaware Fireball 199

Mousse de Foie Gras de Canard 200

Grammy Mae's Summer Sausage 201

Figatelli from Les Cochons Tout Ronds 202

18-Month Prosciutto di Parma with Black Truffles 203

Cinco Jotas Acorn-Fed Ibérico Ham 204

Benton's Hickory Smoked Bacon 205

Brooklyn Cured Bresaola 206

Mole Salami 207

Index 209

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