Smoking 4" sausage chubs...

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PossumPie

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Nov 19, 2025
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So I just had a strange idea. I make deer bologna (more precisely deer sausage) in 4" diameter rolls which I hang in the smoker for 8 hours. Anything less won't penetrate to the center. I got thinking, If I took the raw sausage and put it on cookie sheets in the smoker, there would be exponentially more surface area. Cold smoke it for say 3hrs, then stuff it into the casings wouldn't that be more efficient? I could then heat the chubs to internal 155 F in the smoker or oven, saving hours of long smoke and $$ on saved pellets. Is there a problem here that I am overlooking?
 
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