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Just got my Berkel 808 meat slicer.  Now to do a little cleaning on it and then it will be time to make some jerky!!

Connect them using a lovejoy connector.   this will make hooking them together easy and also take up an misalignment. 

Welcome!!!!  There are alot of great guys around here and will help you out FAST when you get in trouble.  I would recommend something easy to start with.  Maybe some pulled pork and a fatty.  then work your way up into the long haul smoke of the brisket.  Good luck, you will be fine.  Where at...

I usually use neck meat for stew or grind.  I'd pull it make some good pulled bbq.

Wecome, I use to live outside of DeKalb and visited a few places in Rockford for a cold beverage.

Well after some new smoker issues I ended up over cooking the stick.  They are a tad dry but have great flavor.  Got some jerky sticks now.  I'd also recommend placing your smoker where you have light to see what's going on!!!  Oh well lessons learned and they will be eaten.

Amazing what a tape measure and a sharpie does!!

Honda Shadow Phantom and I'm still riding, was out yesterday as a matter of fact.  Tad chilly at 36 down in the Houston area

I grind my venison, stuff one pound packages and toss them in the freezer.  This way you can modify them as needed.  Venison Burgers- straight venison, salt, pepper, A1, 1 egg per pound of venison, and Itialian bread crums Venison Snack Stick- straight venison Venison Summer Sausage- 75% to...

Grupe you are correct but by only dropping one leg still leaves voltage potential is still in the heatnig element.  To do things correctly and safely you should break both legs on a 240v circuit.  This can be done with a 2 pole relay or SSR

Two hours in. Looking and smelling good.

Well what better to do than make 8 lbs of of grond venison than make jalapeno snack stick.  100% venison and used a High Mountain Snack Stick kit someone gave me. Loaded them up last night, little sit in the fridge over night Hung them in the smoker this afternoon and now waiting for them...

Where can you get a Kirby Bucket mixer??

Hang in there Bear you are stong and can bet this!!

Was wondering if anyone has ever added a small vent or computer style fan to pull smoke out of the smoke box into the smoker chamber or move air around to help drying when making jerky. Thoughts??

Thanks Dave.   These amberjack came out of the gulf, not sure which sub species they exactually are.  Hopefully someone will come by with an idea or 3

Not sure if it's a typo but you said you used "10lbs of vension to 5lbs of pork/fat from boston butt" and your orginal recipe calls for " 5 lbs. Ground Venison &1 lbs. Ground Pork"   So if you couble your recipe yo uwould use 10 lbs of venison and 2 LBS OF PORK, not 5 lbs.   maybe you used way...

Ihave a bunch of amber jack that was caught this summer that I need to do something with and was thinking smoking it over Christmas while I'm off work. Any suggestions on brine/marinade and smoking suggestions too? Have a bunch of black fin but that might be gone by then.

Can you post details on your Controler Please

How can I get my hands on one of these bucket mixers??  I usually do 5 to 10 lbs batches of snack sticks or sausage.