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  • Retired157R Retired157

    Ok everyone if you were wondering, yes; I actually did make my first batch of Summer Sausage yesterday! It was a long day. I started at 6:30am and had the SS in the refrigerator for its ‘over-nighter’ at about 9:30pm. Guess I won’t get that ‘speed’ award.

    Here’s what I can tell everyone… you were right! Everything that I did at the suggesting of many of you worked out as expected. Yes, I am very pleased with what I was able to get done yesterday. By the way, my smoker upgrade worked CRAZY GOOD!

    I got up this morning and decided to ‘sacrifice’ my little ‘chub’ (is that what a stick of SS is known as?). It tastes great! My first go at this appears to have been a success! Thanks for everyones’ help… and especially John for getting me that ‘binder’!

    Ok… here are some pics from my day yesterday and up to this morning. I cut all the ‘chubs’ in half now and when I am done with this message, I will go out and seal my SS for freezing.

    One last thing before the pics… what you guys FAILED to tell me was that when it comes to the mixing process and getting to ‘High Protein Extraction’, a guy better be ready for a ‘Work Out’! Holy Cow… My arms looked like Popeye’s when I was done.

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    Bob StehlikB Offline
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    Retired157 Looks great. Congrats on your success and thank you for the detailed pictorial of your process. You really put a lot of time and energy into your prep & process. Now you can sit back and enjoy your SS (with a cold one of course!).

    Improvise, Adapt and Overcome! Semper Fi

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    • Retired157R Retired157

      Ok everyone if you were wondering, yes; I actually did make my first batch of Summer Sausage yesterday! It was a long day. I started at 6:30am and had the SS in the refrigerator for its ‘over-nighter’ at about 9:30pm. Guess I won’t get that ‘speed’ award.

      Here’s what I can tell everyone… you were right! Everything that I did at the suggesting of many of you worked out as expected. Yes, I am very pleased with what I was able to get done yesterday. By the way, my smoker upgrade worked CRAZY GOOD!

      I got up this morning and decided to ‘sacrifice’ my little ‘chub’ (is that what a stick of SS is known as?). It tastes great! My first go at this appears to have been a success! Thanks for everyones’ help… and especially John for getting me that ‘binder’!

      Ok… here are some pics from my day yesterday and up to this morning. I cut all the ‘chubs’ in half now and when I am done with this message, I will go out and seal my SS for freezing.

      One last thing before the pics… what you guys FAILED to tell me was that when it comes to the mixing process and getting to ‘High Protein Extraction’, a guy better be ready for a ‘Work Out’! Holy Cow… My arms looked like Popeye’s when I was done.

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      wdalyW Offline
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      wdaly
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      wrote on last edited by
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      Retired157 Can’t believe that’s your first batch. They look amazing. Your equipment is pretty nice as well. Glad you were able to get the results you wanted.

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      • Retired157R Retired157

        johnsbrewhouse

        Hey… just wanted to thank you!

        johnsbrewhouseJ Offline
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        wrote on last edited by
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        Retired157 Not a problem, your summer sausage project is now in the books and looks great!

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        • Retired157R Retired157

          Ok everyone if you were wondering, yes; I actually did make my first batch of Summer Sausage yesterday! It was a long day. I started at 6:30am and had the SS in the refrigerator for its ‘over-nighter’ at about 9:30pm. Guess I won’t get that ‘speed’ award.

          Here’s what I can tell everyone… you were right! Everything that I did at the suggesting of many of you worked out as expected. Yes, I am very pleased with what I was able to get done yesterday. By the way, my smoker upgrade worked CRAZY GOOD!

          I got up this morning and decided to ‘sacrifice’ my little ‘chub’ (is that what a stick of SS is known as?). It tastes great! My first go at this appears to have been a success! Thanks for everyones’ help… and especially John for getting me that ‘binder’!

          Ok… here are some pics from my day yesterday and up to this morning. I cut all the ‘chubs’ in half now and when I am done with this message, I will go out and seal my SS for freezing.

          One last thing before the pics… what you guys FAILED to tell me was that when it comes to the mixing process and getting to ‘High Protein Extraction’, a guy better be ready for a ‘Work Out’! Holy Cow… My arms looked like Popeye’s when I was done.

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          johnsbrewhouseJ Offline
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          wrote on last edited by
          #184

          Retired157 Sometimes it’s hard to be a one man band when it comes to making sausage. Most of the time I am that band as well. Hand mixing does take time and strength, I’m glad I only do 5 lbs. at a time, but I use a bowl. The meat lug might make it easier, but the S/S bowl is faster to clean up.

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          • Retired157R Retired157

            Ok everyone if you were wondering, yes; I actually did make my first batch of Summer Sausage yesterday! It was a long day. I started at 6:30am and had the SS in the refrigerator for its ‘over-nighter’ at about 9:30pm. Guess I won’t get that ‘speed’ award.

            Here’s what I can tell everyone… you were right! Everything that I did at the suggesting of many of you worked out as expected. Yes, I am very pleased with what I was able to get done yesterday. By the way, my smoker upgrade worked CRAZY GOOD!

            I got up this morning and decided to ‘sacrifice’ my little ‘chub’ (is that what a stick of SS is known as?). It tastes great! My first go at this appears to have been a success! Thanks for everyones’ help… and especially John for getting me that ‘binder’!

            Ok… here are some pics from my day yesterday and up to this morning. I cut all the ‘chubs’ in half now and when I am done with this message, I will go out and seal my SS for freezing.

            One last thing before the pics… what you guys FAILED to tell me was that when it comes to the mixing process and getting to ‘High Protein Extraction’, a guy better be ready for a ‘Work Out’! Holy Cow… My arms looked like Popeye’s when I was done.

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            Retired157
            Looks awesome. Great pics as well.

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            • Retired157R Retired157

              Ok everyone if you were wondering, yes; I actually did make my first batch of Summer Sausage yesterday! It was a long day. I started at 6:30am and had the SS in the refrigerator for its ‘over-nighter’ at about 9:30pm. Guess I won’t get that ‘speed’ award.

              Here’s what I can tell everyone… you were right! Everything that I did at the suggesting of many of you worked out as expected. Yes, I am very pleased with what I was able to get done yesterday. By the way, my smoker upgrade worked CRAZY GOOD!

              I got up this morning and decided to ‘sacrifice’ my little ‘chub’ (is that what a stick of SS is known as?). It tastes great! My first go at this appears to have been a success! Thanks for everyones’ help… and especially John for getting me that ‘binder’!

              Ok… here are some pics from my day yesterday and up to this morning. I cut all the ‘chubs’ in half now and when I am done with this message, I will go out and seal my SS for freezing.

              One last thing before the pics… what you guys FAILED to tell me was that when it comes to the mixing process and getting to ‘High Protein Extraction’, a guy better be ready for a ‘Work Out’! Holy Cow… My arms looked like Popeye’s when I was done.

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              Retired157
              You did well!
              Hand mixing is not for the faint of heart or those who fear cold hands, but it looks like you got good protein extraction and it all begins there.

              Paul

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                Retired157 Sometimes it’s hard to be a one man band when it comes to making sausage. Most of the time I am that band as well. Hand mixing does take time and strength, I’m glad I only do 5 lbs. at a time, but I use a bowl. The meat lug might make it easier, but the S/S bowl is faster to clean up.

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                Meat Lug… ? Send me a pic please. Yeah, I can’t imagine doing much more than 10 lbs by hand! Guess I’ll be running around town to our local ‘thrift’ stores and see if I can come up with a nice big S/S bowl.

                My wife just got home and had a piece of my SS… it passed! She likes it. I really like the consistency of how the sticks turned out… solid. I think that ECA gives it a ‘tangy’ flavor… like store-bought. I like it.

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                  Retired157
                  You did well!
                  Hand mixing is not for the faint of heart or those who fear cold hands, but it looks like you got good protein extraction and it all begins there.

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                  processhead

                  After reading all the comments about things going ‘wrong’ and seeing that a common theme was not mixing well enough to get HIGH protein extraction, I was determined not to repeat that error. So I basically just kept on mixing… and mixing… and mixing. Having no experience to tell me what ‘high protein extraction’ actually looks and feels, I just kept going. Some of the Meatgistics videos where they ‘showed’ this was my saving grace. I just kept going until I thought I was there… and then about another 5 minutes. I think I was into the mixing pretty close to 40 minutes before I ‘tapped out’.

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                    That little stick was the very last of what I could get out of the stuffer… to include hand pushing the meat out of the filling tube. Have to admit, getting that little guy ‘packed’ without the aid of the stuffer was a challenge.

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                      IMG_6357.jpg IMG_6356.jpg First run with the new smoker… So far all running great temp at 140 degrees now almost done!!

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                        IMG_6357.jpg IMG_6356.jpg First run with the new smoker… So far all running great temp at 140 degrees now almost done!!

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                        mfrievalt

                        WOW! Watch your back, those guys at ‘Jimmy Deans’ will be looking silence you!

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                          Jump’n… that’s a ‘Walk In’ smoker!

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                            50 Lbs of Summer Sausage today 50 lbs of snack sticks tomorrow.

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                              50 Lbs of Summer Sausage today 50 lbs of snack sticks tomorrow.

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                              Show Off!

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                                Your Cabin in the sticks is way better!!

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                                • Retired157R Retired157

                                  That little stick was the very last of what I could get out of the stuffer… to include hand pushing the meat out of the filling tube. Have to admit, getting that little guy ‘packed’ without the aid of the stuffer was a challenge.

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                                  Retired157 congrats 👏. I knew you had it all the way. Looks great 👍

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                                    IMG_6357.jpg IMG_6356.jpg First run with the new smoker… So far all running great temp at 140 degrees now almost done!!

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                                    mfrievalt that is one impressive smoker. Congrats 👍

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                                      mfrievalt that is one impressive smoker. Congrats 👍

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                                      Retired157 congrats on your accomplishment. It looks great and I am sure it tastes the same.

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                                        IMG_6357.jpg IMG_6356.jpg First run with the new smoker… So far all running great temp at 140 degrees now almost done!!

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                                        mfrievalt Impressive smoker, looks like an old warming cart.

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                                        • Retired157R Retired157

                                          Ok everyone if you were wondering, yes; I actually did make my first batch of Summer Sausage yesterday! It was a long day. I started at 6:30am and had the SS in the refrigerator for its ‘over-nighter’ at about 9:30pm. Guess I won’t get that ‘speed’ award.

                                          Here’s what I can tell everyone… you were right! Everything that I did at the suggesting of many of you worked out as expected. Yes, I am very pleased with what I was able to get done yesterday. By the way, my smoker upgrade worked CRAZY GOOD!

                                          I got up this morning and decided to ‘sacrifice’ my little ‘chub’ (is that what a stick of SS is known as?). It tastes great! My first go at this appears to have been a success! Thanks for everyones’ help… and especially John for getting me that ‘binder’!

                                          Ok… here are some pics from my day yesterday and up to this morning. I cut all the ‘chubs’ in half now and when I am done with this message, I will go out and seal my SS for freezing.

                                          One last thing before the pics… what you guys FAILED to tell me was that when it comes to the mixing process and getting to ‘High Protein Extraction’, a guy better be ready for a ‘Work Out’! Holy Cow… My arms looked like Popeye’s when I was done.

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                                          Retired157 the SS looks wonderful, great job.

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