How To Make Homemade Hot Dogs - Recipe
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Jonathon - A while back you replied to bpschuebel that you were pretty sure that the cellulose casings are smoke permeable, but you would check and update. Did you ever confirm? (I looked and apologize if I missed the update).
jcflorida Since my original post, I have made several batches of skinless hotdogs using the cellulose casings and am happy to say they are in fact permeable. I have been very happy with the look, taste and color of my finished product.
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jcflorida Sorry yes I did, they are smoke permeable. The exact verbiage was “they are permeable to flavors and colors as intended during the smoking process, but are impermeable to other unwanted aromas.” I am unsure what the unwanted aromas are and I would think that is subjective so not sure about that.
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If I am making bologna with the Excalibur Frank and Bologna seasoning, will I need to do anything different with this recipe? From previous comments, it sounds like it is fine to stuff it into a bologna chub rather than hot dog casings? What would the smoke schedule be?
Thanks!
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scott williams
Just my opinion, others may differ but:
In a quick stuff and cook, in addition to flavoring changes Sodium nitrite in the sure cure is there intended to protect against botulism clostridium while the meat goes from 50 f to 130 f in a no oxygen internal environment, which is where botulism grows.You have 2 ways to fix it as I see:
- Cook it high and fast, getting internal temp up rapidly to 130. Just like cooking a fresh brat on grill. No low and slow smoke. Won’t have pure ham cured flavor, but assuming you put in salt it will have some.
- Make up a brine cure with low salt but full cure1. Like you were making bacon, same cure1 calculations just same salt % as in your hotdogs. Soak dogs in there several days to get cure penetration. Then cook regular. If you used a peel off non edible casing you might not get good penetration, I don’t know it’s permeability. I would do it in a sealed bucket myself, meaning a rubber airtight foodgrade seal, add cure brine and dogs, then I’d add sodium-erythorbate or ascorbic acid/vitamin c to give high cure activation. Stir quick, don’t breath in, slap lid on and seal. It creates nitric oxide gas, poison to breathe, so if you don’t feel confident you can do this fast and outside, I’d leave out accelerator and just cure a few days.
Easiest is to just cook fast like a fresh brat. Test a few and see how you like. What casing did you use?
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I think I made a big mistake this morning. I have mixed and stuffed into casings a 25lb of hotdog mix and I forgot the sure cure
.am I in trouble or can I save it.scott williams
Here is a brining calc for you if you do that:
Pork muscle density is 1.04, blended sausage is less. Assume same density as water, 1.0 g/cc. So watee weighs 8.34 lb per gallon. So 25lbs of hot dogs takes up 3 gal of volume.
Assuming you have a 5gal bucket to brine in, you will be able to add just 2 gal of water, so that needs to contain all the cure#1 for 5 gal of water plus meat, and I’d just put 1.5% salt in there so your hotdogs stayed roughly same saltiness, didn’t lose or gain salt.
(From calculator at www genuineideas dot com:
Salt 116g or 4.1oz or 8 tablespoons of morton kosher. But don’t add any salt, because just the cure1 added below will give brine around 4% salt. Should be fine for a couple day soak)
Cure1: Per Marianski’s book:
For immersion, pumped or massaged products, the maximum in-going nitrite limit is 200 ppm and that corresponds to adding 4.2 oz of Cure #1 to 1 gallon of water.So I’d add 8.4oz cure1 to 2 gal water. That will already have enough salt to give 4% in brine or so. Soak a few days, 3 or 4 to ensure penetration of the cure. Then smoke normally.
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Thanks for the advice my friends. I went back and removed the casings and put the meat in the mixer added a little water and sure cure mixed for a few minutes and stuffed it in new casings. Thanks for all your help.
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scott williams
Here is a brining calc for you if you do that:
Pork muscle density is 1.04, blended sausage is less. Assume same density as water, 1.0 g/cc. So watee weighs 8.34 lb per gallon. So 25lbs of hot dogs takes up 3 gal of volume.
Assuming you have a 5gal bucket to brine in, you will be able to add just 2 gal of water, so that needs to contain all the cure#1 for 5 gal of water plus meat, and I’d just put 1.5% salt in there so your hotdogs stayed roughly same saltiness, didn’t lose or gain salt.
(From calculator at www genuineideas dot com:
Salt 116g or 4.1oz or 8 tablespoons of morton kosher. But don’t add any salt, because just the cure1 added below will give brine around 4% salt. Should be fine for a couple day soak)
Cure1: Per Marianski’s book:
For immersion, pumped or massaged products, the maximum in-going nitrite limit is 200 ppm and that corresponds to adding 4.2 oz of Cure #1 to 1 gallon of water.So I’d add 8.4oz cure1 to 2 gal water. That will already have enough salt to give 4% in brine or so. Soak a few days, 3 or 4 to ensure penetration of the cure. Then smoke normally.
Dave in AZ that is some great info my friend. I really appreciate the great information you give to us.
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Dave in AZ that is some great info my friend. I really appreciate the great information you give to us.
cdavis thx
for some reason I thought he really didnt want to strip and restuff. In retrospect, that was the fastest easiest thing to do lol.
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