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    Time and temperature.

    Lots of questions in there I think. To smoke whole cuts you’re generally going to want to use anywhere between 250-325 degrees as a cooking temperature. For a pork shoulder (Boston butt, picnic, or whole shoulder) you’ll want to cook it until the internal temp gets to at least 195 degrees (or...
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    Laguneca Italian

    Man that sounds delicious! Hope my kids reward me with that kind of delicacy when they’re adults. I used a recipe from the nytimes cooking section. It calls for cooking everything slowly over low heat. The white wine in this sausage recipe blended really well with the ragu ingredients. The...
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    Laguneca Italian

    Surprisingly it wasn’t cheesy. It definitely serves to mellow it a bit, maybe made it a touch creamy if that makes sense? Kind of like a brat with milk or cream in the recipe.
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    Laguneca Italian

    I’ve wanted to make an “authentic” Italian sausage to make a sausage ragu for our family’s Sunday dinner. I’ve been making scratch pasta with the kids and then doing chicken parm as well, and we sit down to eat around 3 or 4 in the afternoon treating as the main meal of the day. I looked on...
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    Another hot Italian

    Oh man that sounds like a lot of garlic! I let it sit in the fridge overnight uncovered on the sheet pan and I could smell it before I even got downstairs! It tastes great, but you definitely know you ate some garlic afterwards... Think next time I may drop down to one clove, or maybe check...
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    Another hot Italian

    I liked Dan's recipe and did a little variation. Really happy with how it turned out. Sorry for mixing measurements and percentages, but I figure 5 pound increments are easily modified. Hot Italian Sausage 4 lbs pork butt 1 lbs pork belly 1.5% salt 1 Tbsp red pepper flakes 2.5 tsp coarse...
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    Hot Italian Sausage

    They look great! I've been making my own sausage for a bit now and have gained so much from this forum. I have a question. It looks like you stuffed those pretty tight. I do the same myself. But when I cook them I always get some meet squeezing out from the ends or sometimes the casing just...
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