First smoked sausage

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grilldad

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Jul 30, 2013
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Longview, WA.
After some major mods to my little smoker I thought I would try to do some sausage. My wife and I have made our own sausage before with her Kitchen Aid stand mixer but we never had the means to smoke them. I got my Brinkmann Smoke 'N Grill BBQ to smoke at under 150 degrees so... here we go! My wife ground and mixed a polish sausage blend and stuffed them into links. We let them dry overnight in the fridge. The next day I got the smoker warmed up to 150 and got some pecan and hickory chips going. I smoked them at 150 for two hours and bumped them up to 175 slowly over the last hour with a final IT of 155. Then into an ice bath for an hour then set out for a 2 hour bloom. I think for such a small smoker it did ok. I will be making better hanging racks for the next round.



I'll let you know more after they are ready to eat.
 
Dang those look good!
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Never had homemade Polish, but I keep a few in the freezer and throw one on the smoker for lunch when I'm doing a long cook.

Looks like you have the best of both worlds there
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Ok the verdict is...After the 2 hour bloom I couldn't wait to see how we did. I tossed one of the uglier ones on the grill to warm it up. It plumped back up and didn't split. Biting into it was a crisp snap followed a mouthful of juicy goodness! I was worried about the fat content but for me it was spot on and flavor was up there with the best I've had. What could be improved in my opinion would be to work on getting a more uniform stuffing of the casings e.g. popping air bubbles and just make more of them!
 
Awesome.... Are you handing that over to me................
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Looks like you have polish sausage figured out! What did you do to keep your smoker temp lower?
Thanks for the kind words everyone! As for the temp...I installed a needle valve and covered up some of the burner to make this smoker run at 100-320 degree range without the wind blowing the flame out. I made a video for anyone who has this grill and wants to make it function as a real smoker.


 
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