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  1. navigator

    First time making snack sticks and some new toys.

    First time I've made snack sticks or used my Smokin-It #5 WIFI Gen2 other than for seasoning it and using it as a warming oven for briskets and butts. I bought it mainly for smoking sausage. I bought the Bella cold smoke generator and the James jerky dryer with it and used then both on this...
  2. banwart87

    New at making beef sticks and they seem salty

    Hi all! Newbie here but wanted to take up a hobby and start making beef snack sticks. Been using 19mm mahogany collagen casing, 2 hours of smoke at 150 on a traeger texas pro 34 and then finishing in the oven up to 160 IT. I've tried jalapeno seasoning from excalibur with high temp cheddar and...
  3. radioguy

    First snack sticks, suggestions???

    Last winter I did my first sausage. Kielbasa, bratwurst, breakfast links. Now I want to try my hand at smoked snack sticks. They are always a welcome treat in this house. I've been doing some reading and figured I'd do a post here. Meat? Beef or beef/pork mix? Casings? What type...
  4. Led Freddie

    Tasty and fast Meat Stix

    I had half a pork butt staring me in the face and crying out for attention. I've been wanting to make some meat stix snacks for a while and it felt like time to do it. I've seen many recipes to pepperoni but wanted instant gratification so I took a favorite sausage recipe and twisted it...
  5. coolkayaker

    Smoked Hungarians and Snack sticks

    Hey Everyone! I finally got my MES 130B broken in! 2 weeks ago I seasoned it following the instructions I found here on this site. Then this past weekend I made my first 2 batches of sausage and some snack sticks. Recipes are for 5 lb batches... For the snack sticks I used Greg's Spicy Snack...
  6. SonnyE

    And BAM... Snack Sticks

    So it was hard earned, but worth it... So yesterday my stuffer finally arrived. To pooped to to switch, I finished my Bacon packaging, took a bit of a break, then jumped in. I had gotten 5 pounds of my packaged Beef and Pork out to soften up from the deep freezer. It was still frozen as I ground...
  7. paul2002

    Please help! Mushy beef snack sticks

    Hello All, Been a long time since I've logged on. Unfortunately my hobbies come and go lol. But I do always come back to them. Too many interests! Anyway, I am trying to make beef snack sticks. Or I call them smokies. I've been trying to nail them down for a while now. They always come out...
  8. SonnyE

    Is a Snack Stick a Sausage?

    Not sure, but I'll hang it here. Please move if there is a more appropriate place. So, finally several things came together yesterday, and I finally got brave enough today to jump in. I was happy things worked fine for my first attempt. I ground my pork with the biggest plate in my grinder. It...
  9. SonnyE

    Snack Stix for a Maiden Voyage...

    OK, so I jumped in. I got a grinder attachment for the Kitchen Aid mixer, with sausage stuffer tubes, and I'm getting ready to make Snack Sticks when my order arrives with Collagen tubes, I'll be itching to try things out. I'm wondering if anybody has made Bacon Snack Sticks? I had this hare...
  10. timstalltaletav

    Turkey Snack Sticks

    I searched for ideas/recipes for using turkey to make snack sticks but didn't find too much info that jives with what I'm planning. Tomorrow I'm thinking of making about 3# of sticks using 2# of 93/7 turkey and 1# of ground pork. Anyone make something like this before? Not sure of the...
  11. klutzyspuds

    Venison snack sticks

    Every year for several now, I have been the go to guy in my family for making all of our families goodies with the trimmings from our yearly venison harvest. Well this year wasn’t too good for me personally, but as a group, we did come away with some meat. The first batch of sausage has been...
  12. link

    Pork snack sticks.

    Started getting my stuff ready for the christmas gift for the guys in my department. Step one. 15lbs of hickory snack sticks. Ground it up added the seasoning and cure. Stuffed them in 16mm collagen casing. Let them sit overnight then cut them into 7 inch sticks. Smoked them to an internal temp...
  13. K

    Snack stick issue

    I am new to making snack sticks and am having a problem.......all is well after grinding the meat and after mixing the cure and seasoning into the meat. However, as soon as I add the citric acid to lower the Ph, the meat changes color, becomes far less tacky and almost seems to “sweat” in the...
  14. WI_GameMeats

    Venison Snack Sticks - Garden Salsa Pepper and Cheddar

    Here is my first try at adding peppers and/or cheese to a snack stick and some pictures to go along with it. I used frozen garden salsa peppers from the garden from this past season. High temp cheddar cheese from Butcher and Packer. For some additional heat I crushed up some dehydrated Thai...
  15. thebig1

    Snack Stick/Casing Question

    It’s my first time attempting to smoke snack sticks so I’m just going super basic before getting fancy like all of you. I bought a pack of Lem’s Backwoods and just mixed up the meat and seasoning/cure to sit overnight. I noticed that the casings are dry. I’m assuming that I need to soak them...
  16. BGKYSmoker

    Dry Smoked Black Forest Sticks

    Used my black forest recipe (that i can remember) as my recipe binder got swiped. Made these couple months ago. Cure #2 smoked, 21mm collagen. Vac sealed and going to the S, FL BBQ.
  17. disco

    Spicy Snack Sticks

    I love snack sticks. They are a perfect snack for my buddies and me when we golf or curl. I was out and it was time for another batch. Here is the recipe I have developed to my tastes. I use 500 grams (1 pound) of fatty pork shoulder and 500 grams (1 pound) of lean ground beef or game meat. I...
  18. Reb

    Snack Sticks

    Got 10lb of ground beef yesterday need some snack sticks in my life. I made 2 different batches one being a modifued version of a recipe i found on here. I cant recall who had originally posted it i believe its on pintrest as well. I have used it before and it is very good to me anyway. The...
  19. Saline_Smoker

    Chipotle & Cheese Meat Sticks (Fermented Semi-Dry)

    Chipotle & Cheese Meat Sticks (Fermented Semi-Dry) THE RECIPE: ----------------------------- This is basically a kabanosy-ish stick, with an added quick fermentation of a summer sausage for acid tang, seasoned to my personal taste, with the addition of cheese... so call it whatever you'd like...
  20. wesir

    Snack sticks on motorized stuffer

    Anyone do 17-19mm snack sticks on a motorized stuffer? I recently ordered a Lem 20lb motorized stuffer and when I got it I found out that the smallest stuffing tube that it came with requires you to manually feed 17-19mm casings on by hand. On my previous stuffer I had a tube that allowed the...
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