been super cold here for smoking, I use my homemade smoker that works awesome but it does not like cold temps,anyone tried liquid smoke in this recipe and do them in the oven? and if so how much? thanks all
thanks bear I am going to scale it back to a pound and try 1 teaspoon of liquid smoke per pound and see how it turns out
Know I'm raising this from the dead but what is TQ? I assume some sort of curing salt. I want to do my own snack sticks, but do not have a sausage stuffer..and these actually look like the type of thing my grandpa would do. I have fond memories of him and I tooling around in his old beat up truck and he always brought a bag of venison sticks along and he'd make the grand kids swear to secrecy any where left..so I gotta make them now! I just have no idea what TQ is!
.....as Cure #1 is sodium nitrite only, and you add your own sugar and salt separately.
Aha! Thanks guys! Local store says they have it, hoping to pick up a bag today so I can adjust the recipe for a smaller batch and get her going and hopefully crank out the sticks on Wednesday or so! Or well, in the next week. :)
Another post from beyond the grave..
I just did some today, you can see my First Big Smoker session thread for the pictures and realize why I titled mine 'Dog Logs'..
The problem for me is when rolling them, the fat started sticking etc <Also I was doing them literally by hand because...I was just doing it that way, and using wax paper>. I'm wondering..would putting the raw meat in a freezer for 30 minutes help alot for this?
Also any one ever use Sriracha in a beef stick mix? I was eating them and thinking some Sriracha and a dash of honey in there..
But Thanks Bear! They sure taste good! And if people won't eat them due to looks? More for me!
Curious, Bear or any one else use a sausage hand stuffer? Just a tube and plunger thing? I've seen them, shouldn't be hard to make one at home or just buy a Sausage Kit with one. I've bought what I thought was a great deal on things before <like a 20 dollar meat grinder, hand cranked> and realized I should have just paid for a proper thing before, don't want to waste money on a hand stuffer like that if it's junk!