I have been getting pretty deep into this Charcuterie thing. The next big step is making some fermented salumis. This is not as easy as it may sound. I have been leaning a lot on some of my friends in the Charcuterie world, Jason from Cured meats, Matt from Wrightfood(an amazing photographer as well) and Scott over at Sausage Debauchery. The advise they have given me plus all of the reading has led to this point. The journey in to fermented salumi's.
I have made the cure chamber, now I needed to make the prequel for this. I took a lot of advice from Jason to make the Fermentation chamber. When making any type of "Fermented" sausages, a bacterial culture is added to the meat to inoculate it with good bacteria. The mold you see on some salumis is a good thing. This also helps give your fermented sausage an amazing flavor, in addition to keeping the bad bacteria away. The times and humidity that you need is dependent on the starter culture used. Be sure to check, as some only need to ferment for 24 hrs and other 48-72 hrs. I started out buy ordering all the pieces parts I would need. Then got to work.