I used a similar setup the day I cased the salami and mine looked to be about as snug as what you show in the first pic, but 3 weeks later my netting is practically falling off the salami. Wondering if it's because it dried too quick.
Beautiful end result Bob.

Thank you so much for getting these pics up for me. I couldn't figure out how to. After a sleepless night of worrying about these Salami I decided this morning to just hang them back up in my cellar and raise the humidity to 80%. Thinking I may go get some Bactoferm to spray on them to hopefully sta...

Good point about the mold. I didn't see any visible signs of mold and felt no tackiness when I vacuum packed them today but I can see where you're going with that point. I read it on a few other threads about the idea of sealing them for a week or two to even out the case hardening so maybe I panick...

The majority of that one in the pics was free of voids. I wanted to show everything I was dealing with. The void was about 3/4" out of the 6" salami. We packed them as tight as we could as the casings kept tearing if we went any tighter. Hoping this was an isolated section from packing it like you s...

https://imageshack.com/a/img924/1634/VWVblD.jpg Hoping this link takes you to the photo as I can't figure out how to show the pic on here. I used natural beef middle casings and used the netting suggested by the place I bought the casings but they got pretty loose after these 3 weeks. To the point w...

I made my salami about 3 weeks ago. I had humidity around 85% the first week and then dropped to 75% thereafter. I had my fan blowing everyday which I now know was a mistake. Although it was not blowing directly on the meat it was still enough to dry the shell a bit too much. I have no mold on the o...