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Community => Butchering, Cooking, Recipes => Topic started by: brew on March 12, 2023, 09:47:54 AM

Title: Elk summer sausage
Post by: brew on March 12, 2023, 09:47:54 AM: Spring cleaning the freezer and made 65 lbs of summer sausage from a elk from last fall. Got the stainless insulated oven from my cousin and just a propane burner in the bottom...works awesome. Put some smoker pellets in an old cast iron skillet and wrapped in aluminum foil
Title: Re: Elk summer sausage
Post by: Twispriver on March 12, 2023, 12:53:46 PM: Does the smoke penetrate your casings? I've cooked them with and without smoke and didn't notice a real difference.
Title: Re: Elk summer sausage
Post by: brew on March 12, 2023, 01:45:50 PM: I feel like it does...yeah I've done them just in the oven at 180 and they come out fine
Title: Re: Elk summer sausage
Post by: follow maggie on March 12, 2023, 02:02:23 PM: That’s awesome. I’m going to try it for the first time his year with my deer.
Title: Re: Elk summer sausage
Post by: snake on March 12, 2023, 05:08:33 PM: how hot did the smoker get? Was it hard to regulate the temperature? Im wanting to make my own smoker.
Title: Re: Elk summer sausage
Post by: brew on March 12, 2023, 06:49:38 PM: That unit is very well insulated...started at 140 and 2 hours later stopped at 180. Once the temp is around 180ish you can fine tune it with the damper on the chimney
Title: Re: Elk summer sausage
Post by: snake on March 17, 2023, 06:15:50 PM: very nice, I have always wanted to build a large smoker. even one that I could use a very small fire in the bottom for heat and smoke incase the power went out for a long time. I'll probably just buy a heating element they sell online.
Title: Re: Elk summer sausage
Post by: Blacklab on March 17, 2023, 11:02:16 PM: Oh my good eats 101👍