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Community => Butchering, Cooking, Recipes => Topic started by: Echomules on December 13, 2011, 10:40:20 AM

Title: Weekend of Sausage Makin' - Bear/Pheasant/Duck/Sharptails
Post by: Echomules on December 13, 2011, 10:40:20 AM: Late Archery Elk is over for me, without an elk this year, and I decided that I’d better fix up some the meat that has been collected so far this hunting season. I got a bear, sharptails and pheasant in Montana, and between my son and me, quite a few ducks. My buddy also had a deer that he wanted ground for burger and sausage. I had a grand list of sausages to mix and smoke. Took all of my three day weekend to cut, grind, and smoke all the sausage. Got the meat out of the freezer partially thawed and cut into chucks to feed the grinder and bought about 100 lbs. of port shoulder to grind and mix with the game.
Cutting up the meat for the grinder, as you can see, I had to set aside some pork steaks for the BQQ.

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Each tub had meat weighed, ready for the grind, and labeled with the type of sausage mix.
•   40 lbs. Duck/Sharptail Chorizo
•   30 lbs. Bear Cheddar Polish Links
•   30 lbs. Bear Italian Links
•   30 lbs. Bear Spicy Blend Snack Sticks
•   30 lbs. Bear Pepperoni
•   20 lbs. Pheasant Sweet-n-Spicy Teriyaki Snack Sticks
•   20 lbs. Bear/Pork grind set aside for a later mix

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Grinding and mixing. This is my buddy’s deer; we’re running it through the grinder a second time for venison burger.

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5 lbs. Venison Pepperoni being mixed.

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Kids are cutting up red/yellow/green peppers and green onions for the chorizo sausage mix.

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Stuffing Venison Pepperoni snack sticks.

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The crew mixing and stuffing Sausage

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Stuffing Bear Cheddar Polish Links

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Stuffing Crew after a bear steak lunch, we also threw a Chorizo Sausage on the grill, should have cooked a few more on the grill. It was good!

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I found that using the grinder as a stuffer was easier than using the big stuffer.
Pheasant Snack Sticks in process.

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It took two loads in the smoker to do all the sausage. Here’s the first round ready for smoke; Bear Pepperoni in the back, Bear Italian links, and Bear Cheddar Polish Links in front. Of course I had to hang a snack stick in the first batch for a sampler.

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Here’s the second round ready to be pulled 16 ½ hours after the first batch got smoke. Pepperoni is still in the back and two varieties of snack sticks.

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Bear Pepperoni, peeled and ready for slicing.

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Slicing Pepperoni, Zeus my supervisor in the background never moved from that spot. While we were cutting and bagging snack sticks, and while slicing and bagging the pepperoni.

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Sliced Pepperoni, ready for a sandwich, Good Stuff!

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Title: Re: Weekend of Sausage Makin' - Bear/Pheasant/Duck/Sharptails
Post by: Buckmark on December 13, 2011, 10:49:04 AM: :tup:
Any more pics of that smoker??
Title: Re: Weekend of Sausage Makin' - Bear/Pheasant/Duck/Sharptails
Post by: Huntboy on December 13, 2011, 11:07:52 AM: Quote from: Buckmark on December 13, 2011, 10:49:04 AM
:tup:
Any more pics of that smoker??
:yeah:
Title: Re: Weekend of Sausage Makin' - Bear/Pheasant/Duck/Sharptails
Post by: Echomules on December 13, 2011, 12:30:40 PM: Here's a couple. This is the first time that I've loaded it full.

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http://www.gamefishin.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=31001 (http://www.gamefishin.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=31001)

http://www.gamefishin.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=31129 (http://www.gamefishin.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=31129)

The smoker's design orginated from this website, which has details on the build. I made a few personal modifications to the finished product based on a lot of image searchs for "Plywood smokers". The second site below was another one about the same.

http://forums.mathewsinc.com/viewtopic.php?t=41686&postdays=0&postorder=asc&&start=0

http://forum.sausagemaking.org/viewtopic.php?p=73682
Title: Re: Weekend of Sausage Makin' - Bear/Pheasant/Duck/Sharptails
Post by: quadrafire on December 13, 2011, 12:37:58 PM: WOW You have the system down

The kids look thrilled :chuckle:

Love the smoker :tup:
Title: Re: Weekend of Sausage Makin' - Bear/Pheasant/Duck/Sharptails
Post by: Echomules on December 14, 2011, 03:38:10 PM: Quote from: quadrafire on December 13, 2011, 12:37:58 PM
The kids look thrilled :chuckle:

Yeah a huge big kuddos to my son. :tup:
My buddies left at 2 and 3 pm, but he helped-without complaining-from 8am to 9:30pm on Saturday. And again by cleaning up and bagging a good portion of the next day. On Monday he helped with cutting and bagging again-glad he didn't have homework, I needed his help.
That un-enthused look is a regular look on a 14 year old. :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Weekend of Sausage Makin' - Bear/Pheasant/Duck/Sharptails
Post by: quadrafire on December 14, 2011, 08:22:48 PM: Quote from: Echomules on December 14, 2011, 03:38:10 PM
Quote from: quadrafire on December 13, 2011, 12:37:58 PM
The kids look thrilled :chuckle:

That un-enthused look is a regular look on a 14 year old. :rolleyes:

Yea I know---- I have one!!!!! Good job on getting that much help from him.
Title: Re: Weekend of Sausage Makin' - Bear/Pheasant/Duck/Sharptails
Post by: Jason on December 14, 2011, 08:25:49 PM: Looks yummy! :drool: nice smoker too :tup:
Title: Re: Weekend of Sausage Makin' - Bear/Pheasant/Duck/Sharptails
Post by: ribka on December 14, 2011, 08:44:32 PM: Looks good!
Title: Re: Weekend of Sausage Makin' - Bear/Pheasant/Duck/Sharptails
Post by: Blacklab on December 15, 2011, 06:20:29 AM: Lookin my tee mine ;)
Title: Re: Weekend of Sausage Makin' - Bear/Pheasant/Duck/Sharptails
Post by: NRA4LIFE on December 15, 2011, 11:43:32 AM: That is one heck of an operation. Looks like Zeus wanted some Scooby snacks.