Hey all Papa John here, no not the pizza guy. I've been Papa John long before the pizza chain existed.
Got a smoker last year, been doing bacon mostly, a brisket , a tri tip, pulled pork and smoked chicken (for mama's smoked chicken enchiladas). I've also done some bulk sausage, breakfast and chorizo style and I'm getting into sausage making. I made Chicken Fajita sausages which taste awesome although I did have an issue casing them, well vacuum sealing them once they were cased. Next on the list is a summer sausage.
Somewhere down the line I want to make a snack stick using my jerky marinade. the recipe uses a fair amount of celery salt and I want to know if I need to adjust the amount of cure because of the natural nitrites in the celery powder. I have an inner ear disorder and meats with excessive nitrates/nitrites trigger vertigo attackes so I need to be sparing with cure. The recipe also uses a lot of soy sauce and I expect the mince to be quite wet. I hoped to get some advice on the best way to dry the snack sticks.
regards from Colorado
Papa John (CADguy)
Got a smoker last year, been doing bacon mostly, a brisket , a tri tip, pulled pork and smoked chicken (for mama's smoked chicken enchiladas). I've also done some bulk sausage, breakfast and chorizo style and I'm getting into sausage making. I made Chicken Fajita sausages which taste awesome although I did have an issue casing them, well vacuum sealing them once they were cased. Next on the list is a summer sausage.
Somewhere down the line I want to make a snack stick using my jerky marinade. the recipe uses a fair amount of celery salt and I want to know if I need to adjust the amount of cure because of the natural nitrites in the celery powder. I have an inner ear disorder and meats with excessive nitrates/nitrites trigger vertigo attackes so I need to be sparing with cure. The recipe also uses a lot of soy sauce and I expect the mince to be quite wet. I hoped to get some advice on the best way to dry the snack sticks.
regards from Colorado
Papa John (CADguy)
