So I pulled 15 chubs off of my WSM at 140 and put them in a turkey fryer pot without bagging . Everything worked great , fast and the casings stayed perfect, bottom line I guess is no need to bag. Thanks for all the info

blackjac Have done many pounds of sticks with no water bath and have not had wet sticks.Hope it works for you. And get your shovel ready.

@blackjac I always go straight from the smoker or if I’m using a cure accelerator I go straight to the smoker. As Jonathon stated, the meat is still very cold at that point, partly because I don’t make large batches as I can only fit about 15 lbs of sausage or snack sticks in my smoker at a time. I can get more Summer sausage or Salami but I still usually don’t make more than 10-15 lbs of that at a time either.

@Jonathon no prob bud