Snack Stick Beef/Pork?

[GatorAGR]

Any thoughts on a Beef:Pork ratio for snack sticks? Trying to cut costs by mixing a little Pork butt in with my Chuck roast, but still want good snack stick flavor. Beef prices have killed my sausage making lately.

 

[chopsaw]

I normally do all pork . Plenty of flavor for me . So I would think any mix would be fine .

 

[Gonna Smoke]

I agree with Rich...

 

[GatorAGR]

Great! And honestly even better. Hadn't even considered going all pork. Thanks guys.

 

[Fueling Around]

I have always liked beef or Venison and beef sticks. Both meats not rare to me.
Last year Keith JckDanls 07 introduced me to all pork sticks. Very tasty.

 

[motolife313-2]

Use brisket and buy boneless pork shoulder to cut costs

 

[hondabbq]

I have always used 50/50 lean beef and lean pork. Always turned out great.

 

[zwiller]

There is some good stuff out there outside of the classic beef snack stick. I highly suggest you check out kabanosy to start with. Don't run sticks but do run a TON of summer sausage and found cutting with pork actually made it better than all beef. I like 50/50. I bet a stick would be the same. Pork gave it better texture and mouthfeel.

 

[tallbm]

Any thoughts on a Beef:Pork ratio for snack sticks? Trying to cut costs by mixing a little Pork butt in with my Chuck roast, but still want good snack stick flavor. Beef prices have killed my sausage making lately.

As suggested, going all pork will be the ticket on saving money and it will taste great!

If you do want to mix you can basically go any ratio you want depending on if you want more beefy flavor or not. 50/50 is great and I've even mixed 80/20 where the 20% was strickly pork fat and it is great. So you can pretty much come up with any ratio you like depending on how much flavor you want of beef.

 

[zwiller]

I've even mixed 80/20 where the 20% was strickly pork fat and it is great.

Agree. That IMO is the ultimate mix. 80/20 lean beef/pork fatback. Back on the 50/50... I once tested the matter and made Manwich with a 50/50 mix and my family had no idea. Honestly, I think it actually tasted BETTER than all GB. It's one of those you put off but once you try it's "why didn't I do this sooner things".

 

[GatorAGR]

All great advice as usual. Thinking about it logically, how bad could any mix of those two proteins be bad? I tend to over think these things.

 

[Fueling Around]

All great advice as usual. Thinking about it logically, how bad could any mix of those two proteins be bad? I tend to over think these things.

Mix? Hmm
Pepperoni comes to mind. A mix of pork and beef sounds good to me.

I made a couple batches of all beef SS last year. I wasn't happy, but the people I gifted didn't complain.
I wanted to do a mix of beef and pork, but never got to it.

 

[GatorAGR]

My one and only SS so far was 50/50 beef pork and it was clearly my best sausage that I've made so far. Turned out perfect.

 

[sandyut]

Not to highjack this topic. Lots of good info here on something I have been thinking about.

My LEM jerky canon can with a snack stick tip. I assume that needs casing? Never made snack sticks but when I opened the box and saw the tip I was like - I like snack sticks.

 

[GatorAGR]

I use collagen casings for my snack sticks, but you could go without and make a caseless stick I suppose. You could still use the Jerky Cannon for both.

 

[zwiller]

Not to highjack this topic. Lots of good info here on something I have been thinking about.

My LEM jerky canon can with a snack stick tip. I assume that needs casing? Never made snack sticks but when I opened the box and saw the tip I was like - I like snack sticks.

The gun is snack stick beast! Works WAAAY better than a stuffer. No you don't have to use casing can run naked. This is kabanosy. My dog loved all my smoked stuff but was absolutely BAT S*** for these for some reason.

 

[sandyut]

The gun is snack stick beast! Works WAAAY better than a stuffer. No you don't have to use casing can run naked. This is kabanosy. My dog loved all my smoked stuff but was absolutely BAT S*** for these for some reason.

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AWESOME! so glad I asked. I love the jerky gun. stoked to try some snack sticks soon. Many thanks!