Making Salami at River Cottage

[byford1978]

I love ray x x x

[rouseg7]

I got `Hugh and Ray`s Pig in a day` DVD and its really useful. I can rerun the complicated bits till I get it right. I also have adapted some of the techniques like soaking the bacon for half an hour before frying and it makes fantastic breakfast rashers.

[stugats77]

i just amde some homade salami cacitore is it necasary to prick them whne curing and hanging them up?

[bigsalamiphil]

Thats especially true for Ray their butcher, what a great bloke and really knows his stuff. I went down again this year for smoking and curing and equally as good.

[Yehbytheway]

People have to be paid for there labour .

It would be nice if we could all do it for nothing or for pennies.

£175 is cheap compared to alot of courses in charcutarie and butchering.

Some cooking courses are £300 a day.

At the end of the day you can't beat learning from a pro.

A good teacher is worth a thousand books.

[beefyillustrations]

I've just been to the smoking and curing course and it was FANTASTIC and worth every penny. I saved up for it. Simple

[SleepyMenton]

I really like River Cottage but it is a lot easier to lead the good life if you have a stream of well-paid city-dwellers ready to fund your lifestyle.

[bigsalamiphil]

Certainly not a 'well paid city-dweller' just prefer to spend my hard worked cash on hobby other than drinkin' an' smokin'

[SleepyMenton]

Good for you, Phil. The point below about £175 for the course does seem to exclude a lot of simple folk that HFW depicts as friends in his series. Fine if it's corporate entertainment or Jamie is footing the bill for 15. The River Cottage set-up looks pretty smart these days as a result. Good for Hugh and Rick Stein and Jamie (and Argos if they really have £6 clothes rails); they sell what people want.

[sisyphusandhisrock]

can you believe how much they charge for these courses? £175 ...... they must have more money than sense.Just buy a book and get on with it!