Welcome to Meatgistics!

This is a great place to begin your posting in the Meatgistics community.
Let everyone know who you are, plus find out more about others.

You only have to share what you feel comfortable with others knowing, but some ideas for your first post…

Where are you from (city/state)?

How much experience do you have in meat processing or smoking/grilling?

What is your favorite meat snack or seasoning flavor?

What is your current smoker or grill?

Other than that, have fun, and we are excited to have you apart of the Meatgistics community!

Austin Walton

About me

A lot of you guys may have seen me before on WaltonsTV. I’ve been working at Walton’s for 10 years now and have been involved in various roles at the company. Right now, I’m the host of WaltonsTV and Meatgistics, plus the Retail Products Manager. I cannot wait to interact with everyone about everything from sausage and jerky making to smoking, grilling, hunting, and more!

Location

Wichita, Kansas

Favorite Meat Snacks

Either Snack Sticks or Bratwursts. If I was forced to choose between one of them…I’d choose both!

Current Grill/Smoker

Jim Bowie Green Mountain Pellet Grill
I’ve found this to be the easiest way to grill or smoke on the same unit, while remaining quick and easy. I’m a lazy cook, so having real wood flavor with digital temp controls is right up my alley.

Experience Level

Mid to High
I’ve made countless pounds of sausage and jerky and my job is all about supplying meat processing supplies and equipment. I love everything related to meat processing, smoking, and grilling.

My Favorite Walton’s Stuff

Brats - Blue Ribbon Bratwurst Seasoning - Hands down my favorite brat seasoning, and it’s Walton’s #1 seller

Snack sticks - Bloody Mary Snack Stick Seasoning - A very new flavor that we just recently started selling, but this has quickly become my favorite snack stick

Dry Marinade - Cyclops Greek Marinade - Perfect for making a juicy grilled chicken breast

Seasoning Shaker - Sundried Tomato Basil - I’ll put this on about anything, but it’s particularly good to add some flavor and flare to pizza

Equipment - Walton’s 11lb Sausage Stuffer - Just an all around great piece of equipment and perfect for smaller batches of sausage and I have been using this more than our larger hydraulic stuffer just for the size convenience

BBQ Accessory - Non-Stick Grilling Basket - A must have that I use all the time for grilling

Apparel - Walton’s Orange Hat - Love wearing this hat, and you won’t ever see me without it

I love cooking on the grill and I do more cooking there than I do in the kitchen. One of the latest things I’ve grilled that was just absolutely fantastic was a stuffed burger! I’ve done stuffed burgers before, but I added an extra level to it and an extra blast of flavor…

Instead of just using plain ground beef for making the burger, I first mixed in one of our Excalibur Patty Mixes: https://www.waltonsinc.com/seasonings/patty-mixes

There are 8 different varieties of these patty mix seasonings, but if I had to choose just one, I’m probably going with the Bacon Flavored! You really cannot go wrong with bacon…

The end result was a fantastic flavor blasted stuffed hamburger! In the picture below, I used one of the patty mixes, plus then stuffed it with jalapenos, mushrooms, and cream cheese!

What do you guys think? Any other flavor combinations to make a better stuffed burger?

Walton’s Test Kitchen & Smokehouse

I thought I’d start out the Bragging Board by sharing a portion of what we have in our Walton’s Test Kitchen. At Walton’s, we not only sell all the equipment and supplies to make great sausage and jerky, but we also spend a bit of time doing our own testing and training. One of our favorite toys is our Pro Smoker 500-T Smokehouse! We have our smokehouse outfitted with a wood pellet smoke generator and a WiFi control panel. This is definitely overkill for any home meat processor out there, but this is the kind of smokehouse that we sell to many of our commercial meat processors.

All of our salesmen and customer service reps spend time in our test kitchen learning how to make sausage and trying different meat snacks and flavors so they can better help you with your processes and so they can accurately suggest seasoning flavors to use as they have actually used and tasted them. Pretty much everyone at Walton’s gets excited though when this thing gets fired up! The smell typically means we will be having some samples and taste testing going on later in the day!

So, what about you guys? What kind of smoker do you have or did you custom build your own?

Walton’s Pro Smoker 500-T Smokehouse

A More Home-Friendly Smoker

Another smokehouse from Pro Smoker that we have used that is extremely high quality, but much better suited for a home processor or backyard BBQ guru is the PK100 Pro Smoker Smokehouse. https://www.waltonsinc.com/pk100-pro-smoker-smokehouse
I loved using this smoker during testing and it does a fantastic job of producing quality smoked meats. Be on the lookout for a full video review from WaltonsTV, coming soon…