You are so thoughtfully careful that I am very impressed. I live in Malaysia and want dearly to make my own hams. 4 slabs of belly pork are already in the ‘fridge for 4 more days then I will smoke them. Exciting! The ‘fridge is too cold to store the hams in brine and its too meltingly hot any where else in my house. Air conditioning a room to store the brine plus hame will be a tad costly but if that is what it tas;0̷ke….. why not, right?RegardsAnnie