Homemade Dry Age Walk-In Cooler Experiment

Your insulation would be R35, 6 inches of fiberglass is R30 and 1 inch of foam is R5.

So cool! Great tips.

How do you keep the humidity where you want it

Hello, is this set adequate for dry aging hams, sausages, salami’s etc? Or can it be modified to do so? Thanks and God bless!!

So great, we are raising grass fed beef on our “lifestead” farm n North Central Idaho, plan to process our first one spring 23. Can’t wait to reproduce your idea. Pack goats are in our near future.

Speaking on philosophy. It's serendipitous to see your shirt. I too believe music is medicine. Particularly the creation of it. I picked up an electric guitar about 8 years ago for the first time. I'm 44 now. It's opened a side of my personality I wasn't aware of prior to beginning to play. I don't know if my experience is somewhat parallel to yours, but it's very interesting to see. Thank you for sharing this method. I've always been intrigued myself. Good stuff Marc.

Love it! My brother, Dad and I own and operate a spray foam business (7c insulation LLC) here in sw mo and we just built a 5x14 walk in cooler in our butcher shop that we plan to open very soon for custom cuts. Very cool to see other people doing the same stuff, we are new to goats but currently have a few Nigerians for milk and have a small herd of kiko/boer meat goats and plan to raise and process the goat meat our selves from here on out. Love your videos brother keep ‘em coming!

With the temp hack, are there issues with the evap coil freezing up?

Great Video! Wish I could make the live event.

Curious what you did on the floor? You can use the plastic sheeting (like a tub surround but it comes in flat sheets, check with industrial places that do commercial food equipment/supply in your area) on the inside to make it much easier to clean and even more waterproof and durable. We need that because we go straight from the hoof to a hook (whole or quarter, depending on species) and have drippage. Small family Abattoir/Butcher so we also have to conform to CFIA and local Heath Department requirements. And the mold is related to penicillins, but not quite the same as the one used as an antibiotic.

Huge difference when you can dry age especially with game. Never seen a walk in done well before with an AC unit… Great DIY! Could easily be used for longer curing meats as well… prosciutto, dry cure sausages like salamis… especially if you can fine tune that humidity. A good vertical Sausage Stuffer to go with that grinder would be nice.

Love all your videos! You are a very thorough teacher. Thank you

Thanks for sharing .... I am planning on doing cold box this spring. It helps seeing how you did it!!

Electric costs? Are you going to insulate the door?

First off, you gotta start posting at regular hours man. You're gonna net yourself more viewers when you post when people can watch. And second, I had a similar idea too!! I'm currently making a little ice chest to put in my bedroom by reusing the body of fridge that I pulled from a wrecked camper. For me, it'll just be a mini fridge that runs off frozen water bottles.

Hello forgive me l lost you about 3 years ago...l used to see your videos about some goats you make them carry luggage ....l am from Kenya.(East Africa Country ).you are still working out ...l like your triceps extension muscle..... good day ( it's Sunday 27 November 2022 in Nairobi Kenya.).l love your goats.the black and white goat that you put on mountain and carry luggage... forgive me... English is my second language.