Cold Smoking Red Hots and Pickled Bologna.

[handymanstan]

I really enjoy a plate of crackers with smoked cheddar and smoked bologna on them with a glass of wine in the evening.   SO

Its a beautiful day in Michigan. Sunny and 35*

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• handymanstan
• Jan 7, 2013

The Red hots.

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• handymanstan
• Jan 7, 2013

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• handymanstan
• Jan 7, 2013

I like to take the casing off for better smoke penetration.

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• handymanstan
• Jan 7, 2013

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• handymanstan
• Jan 7, 2013

The same with the Bologna.

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• handymanstan
• Jan 7, 2013

Into the smoker with hickory dust and the AMNS for about two hrs.  These freeze well so I freeze about 2/3 of each kind and I mix the rest in one jar with both jars of juice.

See ya in a couple hours when I take them out.

 

[fagesbp]

Looks great. I have been considering pickling some kind of sausage for a while now, but I started with eggs first.

 

[handymanstan]

Well I took them off after 3 hrs.

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• handymanstan
• Jan 7, 2013

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• handymanstan
• Jan 7, 2013

Filled the jar with 1/2.

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• handymanstan
• Jan 7, 2013

Then I found out my foodsaver went bad after 30 years or so guess I need a new one.  Had to put the rest in the other jar for now.

Thanks for looking  Stan

 

[smokinhusker]

Oh my those are some great sausages and pickle bologna!!!

 

[humdinger]

Man that looks good Stan. I see those jars at Sam's club all the time. Will have to make some for next years deer camp. The guys will love em! I'll have to try Kowalski brand too and see how they compare.

 

[handymanstan]

Thanks guys,  I don't and never have made sausage or bologna and I tip my hat to those that do but one jar will last me a couple months or more. Putting the bologna back in the brine really evens out the smoke taste.  I try to wait a week or so and as the jar runs out the ones I freeze i thaw in the brine.

Stan

 

[handymanstan]

All this reading about cheese this morning and I thought I would have cheese and bologna crackers for lunch.

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• handymanstan
• Jan 19, 2013

Bologna from this smoke. Cherry smoked sharp Cheddar from 11-25-13.  The smoke flavor of the cheddar has mellowed a lot and the bologna has a stronger smoke flavor then when it was smoked.

Stan

 

[tjohnson]

Dang You!

Making me hungry!!!