Summer Sausage

[beausmeatmarket]

I just attempted my first summer sausage. I cooked it to the right temp but had the digi thermometer in it. How do I cool it quickly in an ice bath without water getting in the hole where the thermometer was?

 

[shoneyboy]

Just ice it down......

 

[beausmeatmarket]

I just didn't like that it got water in the sausage because of the hole with the temp probe.

 

[timberjet]

Eat that one.

 

[timberjet]

 
Eat that one.

You will be fine.

 

[babcockwi]

I have never had a problem with sausage getting any water thru the thermo hole. I forgot a batch once, it was in the water bath for 6 hours, still no problem