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  1. fagesbp

    Pops Breakfast Sausage! I promise I will not call anyone names when they use an Electric Meat Grind

    Wow sounds rough. The reward in sausage will be well worth the effort though. Looks great so far.
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    Spare Ribs ala Belly-Style!

    Awesome cook Pops. Everything on the plate looks delicious. And having it with family is what it's all about.
  3. fagesbp

    Swiss-N-Bruschetta

    Yes I had ice both times. It gets pretty warm here even this time of year.
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    Swiss-N-Bruschetta

    I wonder what made the difference. I smoked 1/2 pound blocks of swiss, pepper jack, marble jack, monterey jack, and mild cheddar. I did some pepper jack and mild cheddar about a month ago, rested for 2 weeks and the flavor was right but the color didn't change then either.
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    Swiss-N-Bruschetta

    Wow the color really changed alot. It looks great. How long did you smoke it? I smoked a few chunks this past weekend and the color change is barely perceptible. I smoked for 2 hours with my bacon using my AMNPS too. Their pitmaster pellets.
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    freezing pork butt?

    I wish they were .99 here. I would turn them into all different shapes and forms then freeze em lol.
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    Chicken sausage with sun dried tomato, basil and cheese - al la Cougar78 recipe

    They look great. I have been wanting to try a chicken sausage and I just so happen to have a good stash of bacon trimmings. Maybe I can use my own dehydrated tomatoes.
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    My Tax return

    So true it's funny.
  9. fagesbp

    First build need help

    I have this strip heater in mine. FinnedStripHeater I got the 1550 watt and it does more than what I need. My smoker measures about 22 x 22 x 22 inside. The highest I have gone is about 340 but I think it can go more easily. It's controlled by a cheap PID i got from Amazon.
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    Red Beans & Linguica

    Looks real good. I'll have to check out linguica since I'm not familiar with it. Do you really like the sym? I tried it once and ended up trying to give the can away but noone else wanted it either. We use nunu's and tony's.
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    first summer sausage

    I used my stuffer and it went fine the one time I used those big fibrous casings. Just have to feel it filling just like with any sausage stuffing.
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    Pork belly costs?

    I bought an 8# belly for 2.79 a pound from a mexican meat market here about a week ago. Another slaughterhouse had them for 2.39 a pound but were sold out before I got there. Both places I had to drive about 25 miles to get to.
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    how do you decide between natural casings and collagen?

    For regular sized sausages like brats, andouille, etc I tried both collagen and natural hog casings and found I like the natural better because of texture mainly. It seems to me like the collagen are a bit thicker too but the natural are tougher and more forgiving. The main positive I saw in the...
  14. fagesbp

    My first fatty!

    That's a great looking fatty. Making me hungry.
  15. fagesbp

    tied sausages touching each other

    I just use toothpicks. I asked pretty much the same question on here a couple weeks ago and that's what someone suggested. It worked great for me.
  16. fagesbp

    My Belly Bacon

    Yes I had it mostly frozen. I always do but end up with long tails and croooked slices anyway. I'll just keep looking thru the craigslist lottery til I find my hobart, etc super deal.
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    Casingless Beef Sticks

    Thanks for the tip sk29k. I will do that. They stay together just fine. I can pick up the whole foot long stick by the end with no trouble at all.
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    Casingless Beef Sticks

    And they're done. I cut them in halves and made 10 packs of 8 6" sticks out of 4 pounds of meat/fat. I used kosher salt, black peppper, cayenne pepper, ground corriander, mustard powder, garlic powder, msg, dextrose, nfdm, eca, and cure #1. The eca is the only thing not in the spice pic because...
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