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Smoking Techniques => Sausage Making => Topic started by: calis72 on April 06, 2012, 09:49:49 AM

Title: How long to smoke summer sausage?
Post by: calis72 on April 06, 2012, 09:49:49 AM
I am making my first attempt at summer sausage today.   Ground the meat, mixxed in the cure and spices and they are now in the bradley drying at 130F.  now i know that i step it up to 160-170 next and apply smoke - but how long do i actually apply smoke to it for (i know it can take 5 hours to reach the target temp)?   i was going to use my crown royal bisquettes (unless someone has a better suggestion).

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Title: Re: How long to smoke summer sausage?
Post by: Keymaster on April 06, 2012, 10:38:12 AM
I would go with 2 hours of smoke, maybe three if you like lots of smoke. I usually use hickory.  Never tried crown. I have had summer sausage take up to 10 hours but normal is about 8 hours. What size casings did you use?
Title: Re: How long to smoke summer sausage?
Post by: calis72 on April 11, 2012, 08:57:43 AM
I ended up doing about 3 hours of smoke.   I'm not sure what the casing diameter is - I assume its about 50-55mm?
Title: Re: How long to smoke summer sausage?
Post by: Smoker John on April 11, 2012, 06:11:33 PM
Let us know how it turns out
Title: Re: How long to smoke summer sausage?
Post by: calis72 on April 12, 2012, 05:45:24 AM
Posted a full report here:-

http://forum.bradleysmoker.com/index.php?topic=28040.0
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