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If you hot smoke (225-250*), then the links will probably be done in 1-1.5 hours. As long as you're through the danger zone (40-140*) in less than 4 hours, you should be fine. The IT should be 165* when done.
If you wish to smoke longer, then you will have to cure your sausages.
I do know that in some quantity it produces heart palpitations for me...at least on a few occasions so far... I don't want any extra added to my food; I'll just take what nature provides -- naturally.
Are you wet or dry curing? I dry cure, and after rubbing the correct amount of cure on the meat, I add seasonings & flavorings. I just rub the brown sugar onto the meat surface until is it coated -- I don't measure it. Wet curing may be a different thing where cure/sugar ratios are more...
Those are fine to smoke together. Spares should go in about 1 hour before the BBR's. Spares are 3-2-1, BBR's 2-2-1. Chicken breasts can go in as well. Everybody in the pool together!!!
Is your pepperoni cured? Are you hot or cold smoking? If hot smoking, then go ahead and put the water pan in -- helps keep temps stable and everything from drying out. If cold smoking, then it is not necessary.
I can't speak to the value/non-value of brining, because I have never brined a butt. However, they always come out moist and flavorful (read: they don't last very long) . Smoke them up and don't worry about it!
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