vent position for summer sausage ?

[Fair-chase]

 I'm thinking the vent should be fully open the entire time since the sausage needs to be dried some what.

What do you guys do ?

[Habanero Smoker]

Leaving the vent wide open the full time is perfectly alright. I prefer to air dry my sausage in the refrigerator or counter. If I dry the sausage in the smoker, I leave the vent fully open. When I apply smoke and cook, I close the vent to half open.

[Fuzzybear]

Here's one more to add to the confusion:

I adjust the vent to maintain temperature, not adjust smoke flavor

[Fair-chase]

With the pid maintaing 170 deg is not an issue !

[Fuzzybear]

Fuzzy gots no PID!

[Fair-chase]

OH how do you live without it ?

[NePaSmoKer]

When i do a few chubs in my Bradley i have the vent 1/2 open. When in my smokehouse i have vent full open for 4 hours then 1/4 for the remainder.



nepas

[drano]

My vent is always full open for all smokes.
Matter of fact, its got enough smoke goo dried onto it that I have to break it lose if I want to move it.
get smokin
drano