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  1. Woodzman

    Canadian bacon

    Finally got moved and been dying to do some smoking. So have had some canadian bacon curing . After 12 days its on the smoker without sweet apple smoke. I also have 14 yellow onions smoking for the freezer.
  2. Woodzman

    Pork jerky retry

    I was attempting bearcarvers pork jerky last week and got rained out . So after marinating I rinsed and froze it . A week later it's on the smoker . I did make a couple changes to the recipe. White pepper instead of cayenne and I used coffee instead of wine . Since I had neither in my pantry...
  3. Woodzman

    Jerky time again

    Well pulled out an eye of round I have been saving for just this project. I've been impatiently waiting to make jerky again. Going to wish I stocked up on more meat as I caught it on sale for 1.88 a pound. Half frozen I finally got it sliced up and soaking to smoke tomorrow morning.
  4. Woodzman

    Turkey lunch at jerky

    I recently found Smithfield turkey breast a dollar a pack and stocked up for lunch at work. Well it's great if you like a salt sandwich. 150 mg salt per slice. So I figured I'd try making jerky out of a couple packs. I soaked the slices in water for a day changing the water 2 times . On final...
  5. Woodzman

    Summer sausage question

    I have a receipe down and a method but I want larger summer sausage . Right now I make it so it's about a foot long and an inch ...inch and a half around like pepperoni size . I don't use casing just roll and wrap in cheese cloth . I want to make it larger like 3" around but I smoke mine at...
  6. Woodzman

    Its that time again

    Well its only been 2 weeks and I'm out of summer sausage again. Luckily tops market had a coupon for 80/20 for 1.99 a pound.luckily my fiancee and myselfboth have a store card and cashed in 14# of burger. 10# for summer sausage and 4# for bbq's. I'm using my usual recipe and started it at 6 this...
  7. Woodzman

    Summer sausage again

    Well yesterday I had the smoker fired up. I made 10 1# sticks of summer sausage. It came out great as always but finally with warmer weather I was able to do it completely in the smoker and not the oven as I have had to everytime because it was cold out.
  8. Woodzman

    Full smoker today

    Well 730 thus morning I put on 5# Canadian bacon ,9# summer sausage,and almost 2 # sticks. I'm trying honey glazing the cb ...accidentally ran out of Brown sugar. Can't wait to see how it comes out. My last batch of cb was Brown sugar glazed and the kids and myself thought it was great at...
  9. Woodzman

    Canadian bacon sticks?

    I was thinking about what if I peeped pork loin like I was going to make Canadian bacon and follow the process right up to smoking it and cut it into say 1/2 x 1/2 x 6" sticks then smoked them. Has anyone ever tried this?
  10. Woodzman

    First smoke on new smoker

    Well trying one of my favorites and a couple new items. This will be my first go on my char griller outlaw. I have 2 1# summer sausage sticks on. Then I used the receipe I found on here for Canadian bacon. I made 2# of that also using the 1Tbs tenderquick and 1Tbs Brown sugar per pound. I put it...
  11. Woodzman

    New family member

    Well this was under my Christmas tree and after 3 hours of assembly I have it done. The char griller smokin outlaw 3724. All I can say is wow what a beast compared to what I used to have as my only hot smoker. Now I plan on cleaning it up as it was quite oily and cure it next weekend. I see a...
  12. Woodzman

    First coldsmoker build

    I'm starting with 2 large disposable roasting pans from the buck store a 5 ft metal dryer vent and a cookie cooling rack. I traced my dryer vent circle onto the bottom corner of one of my roasting pans. Then put cross lines so it resembled a pizza and cut all the straight lines. Folded the...
  13. Woodzman

    Hand rolled sticks

    Have a nice load of hand rolled beef sticks and a few venison hot sticks on the smoker this morning. Also a couple summer sausage and a batch of beef jerky. This will probably be my last smoke for a bit as deer season opens here in NY next weekend. I hand rolled my sticks because I don't have a...
  14. Woodzman

    Summer sausage take 2

    821 and the smokers fired up.my first attempt went bad before it even made it to the smoker.this time everything's going good so far. I'm using a kingsford smoker and starting at 150° with constant hickory/misquote smoke.These are small sticks about big around as a fifty cent piece and about a...
  15. Woodzman

    Bad summer sausage?

    This is my first attempt at summer sausage. I started with 1 pound 96% lean ground beef.this is the receipe I used and cut down to accomidate just 1 pound for my first attempt. BEEf STICK 5 lb. lean ground beef 5 rounded tsp. Morton Tender Quick salt 2 1/2 tsp. mustard seed 2 1/2 tsp. garlic...
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