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Hi All, I Purchased a brisket and opened it Feb. 13th (it's now the 23rd), to make pastrami. The Brisket point and flat were separated and then I followed the recipe on the virtualweberbullet site here to cure the meat for pastrami. Would the brisket be okay to smoke on the 27th, i.e...

Doing my first bacon. bought a whole side of pork belly and cut it into two large slabs. Total weight 9 lbs - 10.75 oz. Q1: The slabs were too big to fit into gallon zip lock backs so I put them inside clean garbage bags. Is there any issue with this type of plastic or not being air tight? Q2...