i smoke. i eat fat foods. i sometimes eat undercooked or raw meat. i drink. in my formative years i'd been known to have unprotected sex, sometimes with people i just met. i've done drugs now and then. i even drove a ford pinto once.

if i worried over every little thing i did that was high risk... this would have been a lot less enjoyable of a life in my opinion.

i get that being healthy is a good thing, and i try to do so in a lot of ways (i eat a lot of greens, tons of vitamin c, etc)... but stopping the things I enjoy is not one of them. i mean, all smoked and grilled meat is being loaded with carcinogens anyway, right?

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_an ... foods.html

Only in the state of California.


Or maybe not. This shows cancer all the way back to 2500 BC.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_cancer

Francis wrote:

khmerinade wrote: What store did you see it in?

Hi Khmerinade, name of the supermarket is Chao San Hok on road 6 (Wat Bo area), about 300 meters after the bridge to your right (that would be in Siem Reap - sorry, I'm in SR. PP-no idea) .

P.S: for making ham (see picture to know what I mean http://www.metzgerei-steiner.it/images/ ... rspeck.jpg)
the temperature may not exceed 60 F (cold smoker) and that is the biggest problem here in Cambodia with surrounding temps of around 91 F.

Thanks for the info. I am in PP, but have a friend in Siem Reap who might not mind looking there for me. Otherwise, will have to wait until the next time someone from back home comes over.

Here's some uncured pork belly i smoked a few weeks ago. It came out really good with a nice bark on it, and very rich and full of flavor.

Ahh, that looks delicious. Regarding sodium nitrate: I just checked it a couple of days ago and it's still available. 1 kg goes for $ 18 footpads