Just a Hot Dog and Sausage Weekend

[GusRobin]

I spent the weekend making some hot dogs and sausage.
For the hot dogs I used a mixture of Roadking's recipe from a previous post and the one from Rytek's book, modified a bit. I used all beef chuck (healthy hot dogs). I did screw up when I mixed the ingredients. When I adjusted for the amount of meat I was supposed to use 1 cup of non-fat dry milk but I used 2. No one noticed the difference so I just had another beer and kept quiet.

Stuffed and drying a bit before going into the smoker.


Put in the smoker at 140* for about an hour to dry then 1 hr at 140* with a pecan pucks. No special reason for using pecan except I had a lot of them.

After that I put them in hot water (167*) until they reached an IT of 155*.



Then put them in a pot of ice water to get the temp down. Then dried them and packaged them for freezing. Ready for packaging.


I would of had more pics but was too busy rooting for the Tide to make a comeback --all for naught.



Today I made some breakfast sausage. Here they are stuffed and ready to package. I only have one size of casings so they are a little bigger than normal breakfast sausage.



I had some meat left over so I made a sausage patty. I decided to bread it with some Mies. Here it is cooked and some of the "Ho-Made" sauce that Snelly sent me. Both were excellent.

[FLBentRider]

Did the hot dogs have the same texture as the commercial ones? emulsified ?

[GusRobin]

Yes I emulsified and they even looked like a hot dog ;D. I thought they were a bit dry due to adding too much dry milk, but the wife aqnd everyone else liked it.

[Sailor]

Nice job on the dogs and sausage.  Seems to be the weekend for sausage.  I put up 10 pounds of fresh Hot Italian, 5 pounds of fresh jalapeno & cheddar and I have 5 pounds of jalapeno & Cheddar with cure in the smoker right now. 

[ronbeaux]

Neat! I gotta try that.

[TestRocket]

Nice job there Gus! Now maybe time to work on a drying rack?  ;D

[GusRobin]

Nice job there Gus! Now maybe time to work on a drying rack?  ;D

What do you mean? I hand built that one - it just happens to look like two chairs and towel on the floor ;D ;D

[SouthernSmoked]

Great job there Gus!

I've just purchase a few supplies myself to try making sausage.