Jalapeno slim jims

[crazymoon]

Made up another batch of jalapeno slim jims for the upcoming hunting season. Used PS seasoning and pork butt ground once through a 1/4 inch platestuffed into 23mm collagen casings:

Smoked with hickory chips after an initial open dampers drying of 1.5 hours at 115*. I bumped up the temps slowly and until the smoker hit 165*. left in the smoker for about 7 hours with a 2.5 hours of smoke.:

I left them in the fridge for the overnight in a paper bag to dry and then cut and vac sealed:

Thanks for looking ! CM

 

[oberst]

I like the crinkley finish you achieved!

 

[pushok2018]

Looks fantastic! Beautiful color and I see they dried nicely... I never though you can smoke sausage using cellulose casing because cellulose casing is least penetrable for smoke .... Did you peeled it off?

 

[SmokyMose]

Nice! Always used collagen for sticks but yours look great. I may have to re-think it....

 

[zippy12]

crazymoon - those look good nice work

 

[thirdeye]

PS seasoning?

I know you know what I mean, but did they have that slightly greasy Slim Jim bite or a less fatty meatier bite? Why not post the recipe I'm intrigued now.

 

[pc farmer]

Man they look great.

 

[motocrash]

Wow man! Killer lookin' slim jims, perfect.
You nailed it CM

 

[chopsaw]

Looks great CM . Nice work .
pushok2018 I use cellulose for hotdogs . I think they take smoke just fine .

 

[JckDanls 07]

Man they look good .. hard to beat a good snack stick..

I've not seen/used cellulose casings before... looking at them on your stuffer tube they look just like collagen... So cellulose comes all scrunched up like collagen ??

 

[crazymoon]

I must apologize to all for stating they were cellulose (I only use those for hot dogs). It was a long day and I had a wee bit of single malt before typing my post. The casings are collagen and I am sorry for the confusion! I need to be beat with a wet noodle for my error ! I have edited the original post to prevent any further confusion.

 

[crazymoon]

PS seasoning?

I know you know what I mean, but did they have that slightly greasy Slim Jim bite or a less fatty meatier bite? Why not post the recipe I'm intrigued now.

TE,It is a PS seasoning mix # 484 and I really trim down the fat from the pork butt to make a lean stick. That mix is my go to for snack sticks,probably made up 75 pounds plus using this one.

 

[bill ace 350]

Those look outstanding!

 

[Brokenhandle]

Nice looking sticks, looks great!

Ryan

 

[DRKsmoking]

Great looking snack sticks, I'm with thirdeye , would love to try your recipe if we could
Thanks

David

 

[SmokinAl]

Those are some mighty fine looking sticks!
Al

 

[SmokinGame]

I am ready to give those my taste test. Great looking hunting snack.

 

[chopsaw]

The casings are collagen

I figured you would fess up sooner or later . Lol .

. So cellulose comes all scrunched up like collagen ??

Yes . They also have a black stripe on them .

 

[thirdeye]

Am I right that collagen is edible, and cellulose is not (and is removed on something like a hot dog)?

 

[chopsaw]

Cellulose is not edible . That's one reason for the black stripe .