Summer Sausage in dehydrator?

[agen14]

Can a dehydrator be used for making summer sausage? At least until the temp maxes out and it needs to be moved to an oven?

 

[boykjo]

I would not recommend it. Dehydrators are intended for dehydrating.

 

[crazymoon]

A14, You can do SS in your oven start to finish if you oven temp will go down to 170* or lower. Add some liquid smoke to your mix and you'll end up with a decent product. The low temp is needed to prevent fat out on your sausage.

 

[SmokinEdge]

Can a dehydrator be used for making summer sausage? At least until the temp maxes out and it needs to be moved to an oven?

If moving to the oven to finish then there isn’t any point in starting with the dehydrator. Just oven from start to finish. Lots of folks do SS in their pellet grills start to finish which is same concept.

 

[Fueling Around]

I understand the reasoning behind the question.
A 170° (setting) oven will easily cycle above 200° and you will get fat out. I did on my last batch.

If I had a dehydrator large enough to hold my SS, I would gladly start it there due to the controlled lower temps. I would wrap in foil to prevent drying out.

 

[agen14]

Thanks for all of the feedback! I had read somewhere that the dehydrator would not get it past the stall?
The main reason is 1 to not have it get to hot but also to not heat the house up to much

 

[crazymoon]

I understand the reasoning behind the question.
A 170° (setting) oven will easily cycle above 200° and you will get fat out. I did on my last batch.

If I had a dehydrator large enough to hold my SS, I would gladly start it there due to the controlled lower temps. I would wrap in foil to prevent drying out.

I used to do SS in my oven on it's lowest setting in the winter time because my Lil Chief was an uninsulated smoker. This was an older oven and I never got any fat out problems, maybe the newer models get higher temps ? Maybe cracking the oven door slightly would keep the temps below 170 ???

 

[BGKYSmoker]

If you take your SS to temp and then slice this while still in the casing, remove casing from the wafers then dehydrate and you will have SS wafer jerky.