Cloth casing??

[doughboysigep]

Since I am having to restuff a bunch of sausage for smoking (forgot instacure!), I thought i might try some cloth casings I have. What are benefits of cloth? It is only for summer sausage? Smoke the same as fibrous casings? Anything else I need to know?

 

[BGKYSmoker]

Since I am having to restuff a bunch of sausage for smoking (forgot instacure!), I thought i might try some cloth casings I have. What are benefits of cloth? It is only for summer sausage? Smoke the same as fibrous casings? Anything else I need to know?

Use un-bleached muslin cloth. Just wet the cloth and squeeze it out, stuff as normal, smoke as normal. Cloth was the old way for the Amish in PA. Takes smoke good. If you get an air pocket you can squeeze it right out.

 

[daveomak]

I tried that with some Hot Italian sausages... I had to hang the muslin casings longer, in the smoker, at ~160 ish.... I wanted to firm up the meat to make a summer sausage texture... I just kept squeezing the muslin every 1/2 hour or so until I got the squeeze feel near something I could call "almost" firm... Karumba it was good... good texture and the flavor was a hit with me... I'm thinking of using a jerky mix for summer sausage...
FWIW... I sew up my own casings... I found that sewing up a long tube, partially filling it and tying a knot, cut off the casing and tie another knot, then continue filling etc... was the easy way to stuff... fill the muslin tube to your liking.. small or large chubs..