- Dec 8, 2019
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My boys and I love eating snack sticks and jerky while hunting. The only problem, we have never been able to make any that we prefer to store/butcher bought. Yesterday, we attempted to change that (and mostly failed). I'm looking for help.
First, we have quite a bit of deer so that's our main meat. Heck, we have 25bs ground right now. To add some fat, I ground 15lbs of pork butts.
Yesterday, we used a 70/30 mix of deer/pork in 5lb batches (our first mistake) of sticks. Everything was done in 19mm collagen cases. We smoked all of them on my Traeger at 165deg for 2 hours and the 190deg until the sticks hit 165deg internal. The texture/look of the sticks turned out great.
Results:
LEM Original - very little taste, bland at best
LEM Peppered - the best we made but a far cry from anything peppered sticks/jerky that we have bought.
Hi Mountain Hickory - vomit, in a snack stick. I still can't get the taste out of my mouth!
Today, I have 5lb batches of LEM Hot and Hi Mountain Sweet and Spicey to smoke still. Then, the jury will be out on those.
Basically, I'm looking for better mixes/recipes/smoking tips to help my quest for a GREAT stick. Oh, and I need to do 1lb test batches...
First, we have quite a bit of deer so that's our main meat. Heck, we have 25bs ground right now. To add some fat, I ground 15lbs of pork butts.
Yesterday, we used a 70/30 mix of deer/pork in 5lb batches (our first mistake) of sticks. Everything was done in 19mm collagen cases. We smoked all of them on my Traeger at 165deg for 2 hours and the 190deg until the sticks hit 165deg internal. The texture/look of the sticks turned out great.
Results:
LEM Original - very little taste, bland at best
LEM Peppered - the best we made but a far cry from anything peppered sticks/jerky that we have bought.
Hi Mountain Hickory - vomit, in a snack stick. I still can't get the taste out of my mouth!
Today, I have 5lb batches of LEM Hot and Hi Mountain Sweet and Spicey to smoke still. Then, the jury will be out on those.
Basically, I'm looking for better mixes/recipes/smoking tips to help my quest for a GREAT stick. Oh, and I need to do 1lb test batches...