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    Do you add water to help the sausage press?

    I mixed up a batch tonight for the smoker tomorrow. When making brats for the freezer I normally add some water with the spices so that it mixes easier and goes through the sausage press. Will this work for smoking summer sausage or will it cause the sausage to shrink later?
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    How many pounds per casing?

    I have some 2.3" X 24" collagen casings. Approximately how many pounds would each hold? It's too late in the evening to attempt that kind of math.
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    Tried My Summer Sausage Tonite And.....

    I'll be sure to do that. The grinder and stuffer are getting cranked up tomorrow.
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    Tried My Summer Sausage Tonite And.....

    My sausage mix (I think it came from the Suasage Maker catalog) doesn't mention letting the mixed meat cure before smoking. It just says mix and smoke. I ordered a curing agent and the seasoning mix. I haven't smoked summer sausage for quite a while so I don't remember if I let the meat set...
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    Current conditions and Brinkmann mods..Pics inside

    flashing used for roofing is galvanized? I used some in my smoker build. Hopefully, I used aluminum. It didn't look galvanized.
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    Got my new smoker!

    That's the smoker I started with. Wish it were still that clean. Are you going to add a thermometer to it? I may do that to mine yet. I'm building a bigger smoker for bacons, sausage etc. since it's difficult to hang anything in one of those. Still, they cook meat just fine.
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    Food Saver Vacuum Sealer

    I went by Sears today looking for one since I already had a gift card. They had a Foodsaver brand next to a Kenmore. Both were on sale. The Kenmore was $20 cheaper (109 vs 129). They looked so identical inside and out that I wondered if they came from the same factory. I took the Kenmore...
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    Raw Bacon

    I cure and smoke it but I always fry it before I eat it. It must have been heavily salt cured.
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    Freezing/Storing Venison Sausage

    Been thinking of getting one for butchering. Do you use the regular garden-variety kind you find in the canning isle at the grocery store?
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    Freezing/Storing Venison Sausage

    I plan to smoke some venison sausage this coming weekend. I hate to make too much at one time. It doesn't seem to keep well long-term in the freezer. I may just grind all the venison and pork trimmings/jowl, smoke a couple pounds and keep the excess meat in the freezer. Does anyone have a...
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    Building an Electric Smoker

    Well, my door gasket material should be here today from allied-kenco. Thanks for the tip. I haven't seen that site before. Also picked up a vent stack and a couple much-needed boning knives. I forgot the adhesive so I'm hitting the hardware stores today to look for some high-temp silicone...
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    Anyone found a good internet source for wood

    Do you all smoke with the bark on or off? Do you avoid the limbs and just use the trunk wood? I've used limb pieces 2" or more in diameter off some of my fruit trees and always just put the hole thing on the heat. Seemed OK to me but I haven't developed my smoking palette yet. I can send...
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    First Jerky

    Grind it up and use a jerky gun.
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    Building an Electric Smoker

    Thanks everyone. I'm going to get some small duct tomorrow to make the smoke stack and lower vent. I already have the thermostat to control the heat element. I never cook without my polder thermometer. I'll look for some high-temp gasket for the door. I took the...
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    Speaking of Spam...

    I've been all over a hog carcass with a knife. I don't ever remember cutting a spam off of one. What cut of meat is that??? Just kidding. I have made it to 44 years of age and have never tasted spam. I don't know if I should be proud or embarrassed.
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    Home roasting coffee

    I thought I had been around the turnip patch a time or two but I have never heard of roasting your own coffee. Doesn't surprise me though. Not sure where I get the fresh beans around here.
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    Hello Smoking Meaters!

    Or it is Meat Smokers? Glad to be on this forum. I've enjoyed it so far. I'm even thinking of joining Jeanette at a buddhist temple somewhere. I'm from Osage County Missouri. It's rough hill country full of rock and hardwoods. I live in the country where I can see nothing but trees for...
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    Woods For Smoking

    Excellent reference on the first post. This weekend I decided to smoke an old ham that I had injected/cured with brine and then put in the freezer. I didn't want to use the mesquite that I had on hand so I went to the orchard where I had just did some winter trimming. I got a few green chunks...
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    Brinkmann Electric question

    I wish I had looked at the Ranco before I bought a Johnson Control thermostat. I already have that model of Ranco on a heater for a large aquarium. They work great. The digital readout at least tells me what the temp is inside.
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    What's up with the spam in a pm

    She sounded like a nice buddhist lady. I couldn't believe I got a PM on my first day on the board.
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