Power outage during smoke

[tx0303]

Had a batch of summer sausage in the electric smoker for about 10 hours when the power went out. Power was out for 8 hours and the smoker temp got down to 61 degrees. Is it safe to keep cooking or is the batch ruined. Normal for me is for a batch of SS to take around 24 hours.

 

[Winterrider]

Any idea what your IT got to before outage ?

 

[tx0303]

No as SS takes so long I don't bother with having a probe in all the time.

 

[pineywoods]

I'm assuming you used cure in the sausage making? If so carry on and finish the smoking

 

[daveomak]

What was the sausage temp when you checked it ???

What temp were you smoking it at ???

 

[Bearcarver]

I'm with Piney on this one, as long as you cured it properly.

Bear

 

[tx0303]

Cure added properly. Was cooking at 165 deg and had been at that temp for several hours. Don't know the sausage IT as I don't check that early as it was not close to being done per usual time period it takes.