45 lbs of mixed sausages for Christmas gifts are in the works

[meddling kids]

Bought 3 packages of butts from Costco today for a total of right around 45 lbs. Here they are all sliced up:

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• meddling kids
• Dec 17, 2012

And here it is all ground up 15 minutes later:

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• meddling kids
• Dec 17, 2012

Tomorrow I will mix up seasonings and start to cure and stuff.

Stay tuned...

 

[boykjo]

Awesome start.............

  I love making sausage but for some reason I hate chunking butts for the grinder.

  What was the price per lb for the butts....

 

[meddling kids]

$1.69 boneless. Not too bad.

 

[tjohnson]

Awesome start.............

  I love making sausage but for some reason I hate chunking butts for the grinder.

  What was the price per lb for the butts....

I bought 50# of ground pork from my butcher

He charged me $1.50/lb.(Finished Weight) and it's about 80% +/- lean

Coarse grind thru 3/8" plate

Can't beat that!

What you making???

Brats?

Snack Sticks?

Kielbasa?

Breakfast Sausage?

TJ

 

[driedstick]

Looking good cant wait I'm with todd what flavor you making???

 

[meddling kids]

10lbs kielbasa
10lbs andouille
10lbs bratwurst
5 lbs breakfast
5 lbs garlic
5 lbs hot kielbasa with cayenne and jalapeño

 

[tjohnson]

Oh My!

You Are A Busy Little Boy!!!

 

[meddling kids]

Just mixed in all the cure and seasoning except for the garlic and hot sausages.  I ran out of NFDM, need to run to the store. Hopefully will start stuffing tonight. Also scored a counter top turkey oven off CL for $15 so I will be finish poaching for the first time.
 

 

[meddling kids]

Got all the hot kielbasa and garlic kielbasa stuffed. Have all but about a lb of the regular kielbasa stuffed. I ran out of casings. I thought I had just enough to do it all but not even close. I still have to stuff the andouille and about 8 lbs of the brats. I'm saving the other 2 lbs for brat burgers. So far in the fry test the hot kielbasa is the favorite. Wish I had had some high temp cheese to mix in as well. Next time! Here's a few pics, more to come:

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• meddling kids
• Dec 17, 2012

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• meddling kids
• Dec 17, 2012

 

[woodcutter]

Looks good! Fry testing is the best part of the day.
 

 

[meddling kids]

Everything except the breakfast sausages have been stuffed. Waiting on some sheep casings. I'm going to let all the cured sausages dry tomorrow and smoke tomorrow evening- depending on weather. We are supposed to get snow tomorrow.

 

[meddling kids]

Hanging now to dry the casings then into the smoker tomorrow morning.

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• meddling kids
• Dec 19, 2012