Venison Processing Day!!! Pics. added-pic. heavy

[indaswamp]

Tomorrow is the day. Smoke sausage, fresh sausage, breakfast sausage, coarse ground chili meat, and ground meat. Over 250lbs. of venison from 8 deer. I picked up 42lbs. of boston butt fat cap scrap from my butcher. Pulled out My portion of the meat and have 125lbs. of venison and pork thawing over night in a 120qt. ice chest filled with water. Go time early in the am....pics to come...

Oh- and I get to try out a new foot pedal switch for the grinder...:D

 

[pineywoods]

Sounds like a fun day

 

[indaswamp]

fun LOOOOONG day....o_O

 

[SmokinGame]

Need any help. Sounds so much better than going to work tomorrow.

 

[pc farmer]

Sweet. I will be watching.

 

[indaswamp]

Looks like I'll be doing 2 batches of smoke sausage. First batch will be ~88lbs. and the second batch will be ~100lbs.
Too much for me to smoke all at one time. First batch will hit the smoker probably friday, second batch saturday.

 

[motocrash]

In past years we'd all get in a groove and start singing the Oompa Loompa song.:p

 

[weev]

Good luck hope everything turns out great
And I have a foot switch for my grinder and I love it

 

[myownidaho]

I’m assuming there’s beer involved. That amount of meat has to require beer. And grilled sausage...

 

[SmokinAl]

Wow, that's a load of sausage!
Al

 

[indaswamp]

Whew! Long 14 hour day! ~356lbs. processed today and I got another 100lbs. of smoke sausage to process tomorrow!
93lbs. smoke sausage cased (gonna smoke these friday)
40lbs. sage breakfast sausage
130lbs. ground 50/50 pork and venison
12lbs. chili meat
20 lbs. pork sage breakfast sausage
40 lbs. fresh sausage cased

I think that's everything.

Pics uploading now...lots of pics...

 

[indaswamp]

Bright and early this morning getting set up. Was 42* outside so we just opened the doors to cool of the kitchen-worked awesome keeping the meat cold.

LETS DO THIS!!!

Figuring seasonings...

Smoke sausage seasoning ready to go...

Saran wrap onda grinder ready to go...

 

[indaswamp]

First grind on the smoke sausage. We did it first so it could sit in the frig with salt and cure to extract proteins. We cased this last @ 8pm tonight.

dumping Inda ice chest as we grind to mix...

Yes, we had some meat miss the grinder hopper, that was cleaned promptly after the picture apparently.

Mixing seasoning and cure #1 on first grind

Smoke sausage first grind, seasoning, cure, bagged and in 5 gallon buckets in the double frig...

 

[indaswamp]

8 boston butt bones (for boudin stock)
12# chili meat
70# ground meat 50/50 venison and pork in bags on ice...

Packaging sage breakfast sausage into tube bags...

Fresh sausage second grind thru 6mm plate

Smoke sausage second grind thru 6mm plate

Of course, we had to taste it as we processed each batch of different sausages...

 

[indaswamp]

About to start casing and linking fresh sausage...

Packing the stuffer good using a rubber spatula..

Two guys started grinding the extra pork butt to make all pork sage breakfast sausage...Great view of clean cut on cold fat...I cranked the double frig. down to 33* for the day.

 

[indaswamp]

Stuffer is full... LETS MAKE SOME FRESH LINKS!

'Course, we had to check the fresh sausage first...good thing, because I realized I had not mixed it to make the meat tacky so I fixed that.

We stopped @ 6pm for dinner. WE gave the guys @ the fire house 2lbs. of fresh ground 50/50 and they made stroganoff....sooo good!!!

 

[indaswamp]

After supper, we had to case the ~90lbs. of smoke sausage. We were wore out and made a sprint to the finish...

Got 3 bags in the frig. each roughly 30lbs. They hit the smokehouse friday.

Divvying up the goodies after a long day...

And that's a wrap for day 1....

 

[indaswamp]

Tomorrow I get to process ~100lbs. of smoke sausage for a friend. Those links hit the smokehouse saturday. I had to break it down into 2 smoke days, I can't fit 190lbs. in my smokehouse @ one time.

 

[motocrash]

Dang Swampa! I'm tired just from the pics.Whole lotta meat/work;)

 

[jimmyinsd]

nice job... many hands make light work