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    Temperature of Beef Summer Sausage

    Thanks for the reply, I finished up my summer sausage last night and it came out great!
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    How long do you smoke your sausage?

    Please help me with something I've been thinking about - I'm always trying to find ways to "speed up" the process since I make so much elk sausage every year.  My first couple of batches took about 6-7 hours, but only the first three hours were smoke.  The rest of the time was getting them up to...
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    Temperature of Beef Summer Sausage

    What if you have pork fat added to it?  Does it have to be 160 then or is 150-152 still okay?
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    How long do you smoke your sausage?

    Thanks for the replies, I was planning to let it sit overnight at any rate so it sounds like I am good.  RACKRAT - As far as I know, curing in the casings should be just fine. 
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    How long do you smoke your sausage?

    Another question for you guys - I am mixing up my meat tonight, how long do I need to allow the mix to cure?  I'm adding Cure 1 per instructions, is it good to smoke right away or does it need time to soak in?
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    How long do you smoke your sausage?

    Thanks woodcutter!  I will use cure 1 in all my batches this weekend and then not worry about hitting 140 IT by the 4 hour mark.
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    How long do you smoke your sausage?

    Thanks for the input! So please give me a little more info on the use of cure.  I have some cure #1 at home I can use. My understanding is that if I don't use cure, I can smoke as long as I want but I need to follow the 40 to 140 within 4 hours rule but could theoretically keep smoking the...
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    How long do you smoke your sausage?

    The numbers I see are all over the place for link sausage.  I have books that say to smoke for 2-3 hours, but I'm reading threads on here where people are smoking sausage up to 20 hours!  I'm doing a bunch of sausage this weekend, some link and some 3" summer sausage in the mahogany casings.  At...
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    Need Help with wood choices!!

    Thanks for the feedback.  After a little more digging on this site I think I will use pecan as my primary wood, and add in some cherry here and there. 
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    Need Help with wood choices!!

    I'm about to smoke 30 lb of elk sausage this weekend......and of course my local Cabela's that WAS fully stocked with Bradley bisquettes is now almost cleaned out!!  I was planning on using mesquite and hickory, but they didn't have any of those.  The ones they have left are apple, cherry...
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    Smoking elk sausage on Bradley Digital

    I just got a Bradley Digital for Christmas and did my first smoke last night.  I love it!  It produces so much more smoke than my old Char Broil can smoker did, which is fantastic. This coming weekend I will be smoking multiple batches of elk sausage and I'm looking for advice on time/temp...
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    Bradley Digital Temperature Fluctuations??

    Chuckles - Thanks for posting those pics, I will make some of those for myself.
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    Bradley Digital Temperature Fluctuations??

    Nope, I'd never heard of it but just looked it up.  Thanks, I'll give that a try!  Sounds similar to what I'd done on my old smoker, I would smoke for about 4 hours and then put them in the crock pot for a few hours on low.  They were a little on the moist side that way but awful good.  I like...
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    Bradley Digital Temperature Fluctuations??

    Hi all, I did my first smoke tonight on my brand new Bradley digital.  I did beef and elk ribs for about 4 hours at 220 deg.  I noticed that my Bradley runs about 30 degrees hotter than the digital thermometer, but that's no big deal I can just monitor it with a probe thermometer dropped in the...
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    Need help choosing a smoker

    Thanks for the reply.  Yeah, I've done thread searches and looked through the reviews but I never found any information specific enough to tell me which smoker is the best for sausages.  I narrowed it down to these two by all of that research, I just need to hear from smokers who do a lot of...
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    Need help choosing a smoker

    To the top Just curious, why am I not getting any responses?  Two of the most popular electric smokers on the market and no one has an opinion?  I would really appreciate feedback as I need to make a decision soon.  Thanks!!
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    Need help choosing a smoker

    So I have eliminated the Cajun Injector, it just doesn't seem to have as good of reviews vs the MES 40 and Bradley.  So I am now down to either the MES 40 or the Bradley Digital 4 or 6 rack.  Could anyone give me some feedback on which might be better for sausage making?  Sounds like Bradleys...
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    Need help choosing a smoker

    Hi all - I'm sure this has been asked a million times, but please give me some recommendations on electric smokers.  I mostly make sausage from wild game, so for starters I want a smoker that will work well for smoking at lower (130-170 deg) range and one that has hooks to hang sausages. ...
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    Grinder recommendation for large batches

    I'm debating between the #12 and the #22, any recommendations on size?  I usually grind about 3 animals per year, one elk and a deer or two.
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    Grinder recommendation for large batches

    Hey guys - Need some advice.  I need to a better grinder, I am currently using a KitchenAid attachment but my batches are getting too large and one of these days my wife is gonna be really mad when I finally blow up her food processor...... I usually grind about 150 lb per year during hunting...
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