Air pockets in baloney

[drunknimortal]

Any tricks to getting the little air pockets out of my baloney? I was thinking maybe vacuum seal after stuffing in a porous casing.

[NePaSmoKer]

Any tricks to getting the little air pockets out of my baloney? I was thinking maybe vacuum seal after stuffing in a porous casing.

Is it in the middle?

Any air pockets between the meat and casing can be taken out with just a small poke. Use one them corn cobb thingys.

[drunknimortal]

There was just a lot of little openings in the meat, probably not packed tight enough.

[Kevin A]

There was just a lot of little openings in the meat, probably not packed tight enough.

Yep, i'm guessing that the 'pockets' resulted from not firm enough packing.
On my last bologna, I noticed the only air pockets I detected where on one end of the chub (the 'open' end) where I couldn't pack the meat in as tightly as I did on the rest of it.

-Kevin