Curing and Smoking (Made At Home)

It's okay. But, it's really more of a set of general guidelines than a how-to book. It's an interesting read.

Great book for learning some of the older techniques for preserving food, like smoking, dry curing and salting. Includes recipes for using the foods you preserve. Interesting how labor intensive the salting process is.It would be nice to have more indepth information on how to build a smoker and salting rig.

This is an easy to understand, from the point of a novice as myself. Cant wait to use the ideas soon.

I got this book for my husband because we would like to try our hand at curing and smoking meat and fish and this book seems to have what we need to get started and it is easy enough to understand we like this one.

I like this book. I'm new to smoking and it gave me many ideas to try.Norma Iowa

This book has some very good guidance and recipes and is a good starting place for anyone wanting to begin smoking and curing meats at home. A great addition to a do-it-yourself library.

I borrowed a copy of this from our library and knew 20 minutes into it that I needed to own my own copy. Gorgeous production with beautiful pictures and great recipes. Do not read on an empty stomach!

The instructions are clear and simple and most anyone who can read could easily follow them . Well done.

I was looking forward to this book having just started curing and smoking and coming fresh from doing a course on it but was deeply disappointed, it just doesn't tell you enough about methods with just an odd page or two about the different techniques and then recipes which I found some contradicted the advice given in previous pages.I downloaded the kindle sample and as with most of the kindle samples you just get the prologue waffle and no actual techniques to see how good the book is.As another has said very amateurish but will probably sell well due to their celebrity status.There's much better books out there to spend your time and money on. This arrived yesterday and is being returned today as not fit for purpose.

Dick & his son have written a modern easy reading highly accurate classic that will be around for a long time and be used by many many people who prefer to prepare their own food rather than take the lesser stuff found in most shops , butchers and supermarkets. The book covers just about everything you can smoke in hot or cold wood smoke, the recipes are easy to read and have been proven over and over again. I'm delighted & honoured to be able to be able to recommend this book to anyone thinking of ,or who are even remotely interested in curing or smoking your own foodsI've Kindled this edition , read it five times in 12 days from stat to fin as well as going back and forth within it many times and will be getting the hard backed edition as I want to flick back and forth over certain sections ( this is not so easy on a Kindle Lite .Hat's off to both of you guys and your families ... you're onto a real winner over and over again.PS I've recently cold smoked my first 4 lb. of cheese chunks , then cured and smoked 500 gram of farmed salmon ( can't afford fresh line caught Atlantic salmon yet ).Our New Years Day breakfast was our eating some of our home smoked cheese and salmon on crackers ,cheese crackers and water biscuits whilst sipping Strawbery SektYou're right , shop or super market sourced stuff are not a patch on the home smoked foods .

Bought it, and am returning it. It makes too many assumptions about what the reader knows. For example, it talks about containers with drainage holes, but doesn't show any examples. Also, it contains too many recipes and not enough details about the curing process and different cuts of meat. I know how to cook...I wanted to learn how to cure meat and fish, and this book was a disappointment.

I already have another Dick and James book and love that (Self-sufficiency)Although have yet to try making anything from the book - I have read it and think it is simply written and easy to understand.There are a few things I am looking forward to making - am hoping to have a couple of pigs this year - so will need to be able to process them - so will come in useful then.Written to appeal to both men and women - another great and useful book.

Really Good Book, As Usual a Dick Strawbrige Special. Worth Looking after for Future Generation's.