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    Hey! I just noticed this forum.

    I joined SMF a year ago, but never really paid any mind to the social groups. I'm down in the southeast corner, next door to Pittsburg, Ks. Howdy! :D
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    Homemade Sonic Drive-in foot long chili dogs, anyone?

    I like Sonic Drive-in chilidogs, but seldom go there to get them. I've searched in vain for a copycat recipe to no avail. :( I did pick up a few hints and clues from some food forums that suggest the Sonic chili sauce contains chopped onions and is similar tasting to Hormel Chili with no...
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    Pepperoni style hot dogs???

    A few months ago, I found some 'hot Italian-style' smoked sausage at Aldi's in their mark-downs. They were about the same size as premium 5-to-a-pack hot dogs or precooked brats. I grabbed a couple of packages, brought them home and threw them in the deep freeze where they were soon forgotten...
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    When it's too cold outside...

    Retire to the wood shop and build a new kitchen island work cart! I've used a restaurant kitchen cart with a heavy piece of polypropylene cut to fit the top for years, but it was just a few inches too low and wrecked my back in short order. This new cart has a 1-3/4" x 24" x 36" Maple butcher...
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    Brine curing some bellies.

    I have two pork bellies from Sam's club. (Half bellies?) The last time I made belly bacon, I used a dry rub. This time, I thought I'd try a variation of Pops6927's basic brine recipe. I'm using a LEM's meat lug with a snap on lid so I can do both bellies in one container. My version of...
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    Smoking with the big boys now!

    Yup, I finally scored a dedicated reefer for the garage and got it installed this weekend. I'm sure the spousal unit is glad to see all my stuff moved out of the kitchen refrigerator. :D
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    Venison sausage!

    A former co-worker just brought me 15-20 lb. of ground venison. I haven't weighed it to know exactly how much, yet. He wants me to make him some Texas Hot links, only with venison (and more heat than I normally use) this time. A third of the venison is mine as payment. So, I know what I'll...
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    Goetborg Summer Sausage? Q-View added

    Has anyone made this recipe from Rytek Kutas' book? (I've made minor changes - basically omitting the beef hearts and increasing the amount of garlic) Goteborg Summer Sausage by Rytek Kutas Ingredients for 10 lbs. 8 lb. beef (chuck or round) 2 lb. ground pork 2 tsp. Instacure #1 1 Tbsp. black...
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    Repurposed recipes?

    Have you ever taken a recipe for one type of sausage and used it for something entirely different? For example, taking your favorite fresh Italian sausage recipe and adding cure to it, then smoking it? Earlier this week I mixed up ten pounds of Kabanosy snack sticks. Yesterday, I stuffed them...
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    Recipe migration bug

    Someone was very concerned about the amount of cure #1 in my CIA Andouille sausage recipe. I checked, and the migration to this new forum completely scrambled the recipe. For some reason, the recipe is now in a single line inside a set of [ code ] [ /code ] tags. I stripped out the code tags...
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    Question about LaPlace, La. style Andouille

    While this joint was making it's move to its new home, I made 10 lb. of Andouille using Starriddin's recipe - http://smokingmeatforums.com/index.php?threads/authentic-andouille-recipe-from-the-andouille-capitol-of-the-world.172026/#post-1260225 That recipe uses a full cup of minced fresh garlic...
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    Andouille recipe from the CIA

    Culinary Institute of America, that is. The other guys are not good about sharing anything. I was updating my old recipe and making a version for 10 pounds of pork instead of the original 25 pounds. I'm going to be making a batch later this week and thought "why not share the recipe?" This...
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    Jerky Time!

    I picked up a couple of small (2-1/2 lb.) eye of round roasts on sale the other day.  One got turned into roast beef for sandwiches and the other is going to be jerky.  It's been years since I've made jerky.  I used to add liquid smoke and dry it in a low oven with the door held open a bit. ...
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    I started a thread in the wrong forum

    My thread on Hillbilly Bacon in the hot smoked bacon forum should be moved to the cold smoked bacon forum. Thank you!
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    Hillbilly Bacon? Q-view added!

    For some strange reason, y'all mistakenly refer to this as Buckboard bacon.  It's been Hillbilly Bacon around these parts for at least 40 years that I'm aware of, and that's how all the local butchers label it,  so that's what I'm calling it.     Any old how, I put two butterflied, deboned...
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    Impulse buy. Now what?

    I found whole in-bag beef eye of rounds for $2.99 lb. at my local Dillons (Kroger) this afternoon, so picked up two medium sized ones. (a bit over 5 lb. each)  Excel brand, USDA Choice. My first thought was to make pastrami, but I'm wondering what other possibilities I can consider.  I haven't...
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    First tme making wieners/hot dogs

    Ok, I've never tackled hot dogs before, mainly because I had never bought a fine grinding plate and I didn't want to use a food processor to try to emulsify the meat.  I solved that problem a couple of months ago when I bought a grinding plate with 1/8" holes. I've run 6 lb. of chuck and 4 lb...
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    First use of new 15# Kitchener stuffer & a recipe

    I finally put that new 15# Kitchener stuffer to good use this morning.  I recently reported on my results of trying some Jimmy Dean breakfast sausage clone recipes.  Spousal Unit & I really liked the hot version, so I sat down and scaled up the 1 lb. recipe to make a 10 lb. batch.  Anyone who...
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    I just ordered a 15 lb. stuffer!

    I've had a TSM 5 pounder for a lot of years and decided to move up to a 15 pound model.  Northern Tool is getting my money (via their Kotula's store on Amazon) for one of their Kitchener brand models.  (identical in appearance to a LEM #706, and I've read that the parts interchange.)  I just got...
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    Jimmy Dean Sausage clone tests

    Jimmy Dean is my favorite brand of supermarket sausage, so I went in search of clone recipes to try my hand at making my own.  I found this set of three recipes from Top Secret Recipes posted by Todd Wilbur on FB: Jimmy Dean Sausage clone recipe This clone recipe re-creates three varieties of...
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