Snack sticks without ECA refrigerator time?

[keend0]

I am making some venison snack sticks but plan to not add any ECA. I seem to recall that you need to let sit in refrigerator for 12 hr. after stuffing and before smoking. Is that correct or was it 24 hr?

[Cabelas90]

keend0 That is correct. However if you add this you could smoke right away.

[Grimpuppy]

What Cabelas90 said. I use smoked meat stabilizer in a lot of the stuff I do because I don’t care for the tang of ECA. The Smoked Meat Stabilizer doesn’t impart any flavor.

[craigrice]

12 hrs. is long enough

[kyle]

keend0 I dont know if I’m nuts, but I like to let mine sit overnight, to me it seems to even out the flavor. I also do not like the tang of ECA.

[Jonathon]

TANG IS KING! But, if you dont like it |Smoked-Meat-Stabilizer and if you have a very accurate scale then Sodium Erythorbate works as a cure accelerator as well and it imparts no tang.

[Grimpuppy]

Jonathon said in Snack sticks without ECA refrigerator time?:

TANG IS KING! But, if you dont like it |Smoked-Meat-Stabilizer and if you have a very accurate scale then Sodium Erythorbate works as a cure accelerator as well and it imparts no tang.

Is there any advantage of using sodium erythorbate instead of smoked meat stabilizer?