Now you can make your own!



I was a little skeptical, but I made up a loaf yesterday for shits and giggles. Keeping with the instructions and leaving it in the fridge overnight, I fried up a couple of slices for breakfast and this stuff is great! Tastes just like the real stuff.

5 lbs - Pork Shoulder (ground)
1 lb - Ham (ground)
2 TBS + 1 tsp - Tender Quick
3 TBS - Sugar
3 TBS - Corn Starch
1 TBS - Kosher Salt
1 Cup - Cold Water

Mix Tender Quick, sugar, cornstarch, Kosher salt and cold water together until everything is dissolved.

Combine with ground meat and thoroughly mix.

Spread mixture into 2 - 9x5 loaf pans and press firmly to remove air bubbles.

Tightly seal with aluminum foil, place into a water bath and then into a 250º oven for 3-3.5 hours or until they reach an internal temperature of 155F.

Remove from oven, place a heavy flat object (I used a brick) on top while still hot.

Let thoroughly cool, then place into the refrigerator with brick overnight.

Remove SPAM from pans and slice as desired.

Yumm

HK Ag

The recipe is incomplete. Rectums and ground hooves? Hello?

Where's the Monty Python SPAM skit?

ETA: OK I'll do it.



Link to original video: https://youtu.be/anwy2MPT5RE

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Originally posted by Jim Shugart:
Where's the Monty Python SPAM skit?

Playing on an continuous loop in my head right now.

....never fails to amaze the ingenuity of members who can overcome any challenge.....

although I've never been on the brink of the kind of 'spam-deprivation-induced psychosis' that leaping into a home-fabrication project it's somewhat soothing to discover the possibility is at hand for the resourceful homesteader

Is it less salty than actual Spam? I feel like ive eaten a salt-lick after a good spam breakfast.

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Originally posted by PorterN:
Is it less salty than actual Spam? I feel like ive eaten a salt-lick after a good spam breakfast.

Costco sell Spam with 25% less sodium. In my opinion it is just right.

I wonder if you could cook/can this recipe in a pressure cooker?

I'm a saltaholic, so probably not the best person to ask. Tasted just about right for me. It would be easy enough to just cut down on the salt if you like.

And yeah, it would be nice to be able to pressure can it somehow. A guy could make up a couple batches and be good to go for awhile.

Vacuum seal then cook at 155 sous vide?
I guess the rendered fats will remain congealed?

I thought this was going to be about Suicide Prevention Awareness Month

I am one of those folks that grew up with Spam and bologna, as it was cheap and we had a big family. To this day, I still like both, and still eat both on occasion, but not regularly. That was an interesting video.

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In Bill O'Reilly's book 'Killing the Rising Sun,' Bill claims that when the USS Indianapolis sunk, the sailers in the water were attacked first if they had eaten SPAM recently.

Crap, that was a big part of our diet in the Navy. HMMMM.
Mike

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
And yeah, it would be nice to be able to pressure can it somehow. A guy could make up a couple batches and be good to go for awhile.

I've canned salty pork in a pressure canner. It tasted a lot like salty boiled pork.

But I didn't try and make it into Spam. This I will try.

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1 TBS - Kosher Salt

Not to beat a dead horse but, having tried the original, this came as a real surprise.

If by "surprised", you mean the relatively low amount of Kosher Salt for such a salty product, the Tender Quick is primarily salt as well.

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Originally posted by Il Cattivo:

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1 TBS - Kosher Salt

Not to beat a dead horse but, having tried the original, this came as a real surprise.

Since it is being dissolved in water, I doubt whether it makes any difference whether it is koshering salt or not.

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Originally posted by Fenris:

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Originally posted by Il Cattivo:

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1 TBS - Kosher Salt

Not to beat a dead horse but, having tried the original, this came as a real surprise.

Since it is being dissolved in water, I doubt whether it makes any difference whether it is koshering salt or not.

Wouldn't it be less salty than if using 1 TBS table salt?

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Originally posted by Gustofer:

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Originally posted by Fenris:
Since it is being dissolved in water, I doubt whether it makes any difference whether it is koshering salt or not.

Wouldn't it be less salty than if using 1 TBS table salt?

TBS table salt weighs 17 grams.
TBS koshering salt weighs 6 grams.

So you only need a tsp of table salt. But koshering salt is just large grained salt. Nothing special. No rabbi blessing.

Unlike bologna and hot dogs, SPAM was meant to be a premium product.
Shoulder Pork and hAM, no butt holes or snouts!