Smoked Polish Kielbasa

[NePaSmoKer]

Ground up 15lbs of pork this morning for some smoked kielbasa.

15 lbs boneless pork butt.


Ground up



Mix for the kielbasa



All mixed by hand.



Ready for the BJT 1" stuffer tube  ;D



Poke the hole in the end of the 32mm collagen caseings with my 8 cent poker  ;D



Here are the 32mm hanging to dry some. I knew them big giant phone books would come in handy for something   :D



Ran out of 32mm so i did some small 19mm ones too.



In the smoker on the sticks.



2 cups of apple pellets will smoke for 1 hour 40 mins.



20 mins later and the smoke is rolling and the IT of the smoker is 152*




Now i just wait for the IT of the kielbasa to get to temp.


nepas

[FLBentRider]

Looks great as usual NePas!

Question:

Do you spend time cutting the sinew etc out of the pork shoulder or do you chop and go ?

[pensrock]

I bet Kiki was not happy that you put the chairs on the table to hang the sausages.  ;)

They look great, glad to see the new smoker working so well.
Greg

[NePaSmoKer]

Looks great as usual NePas!

Question:

Do you spend time cutting the sinew etc out of the pork shoulder or do you chop and go ?

I just chop n go. Most of the time there are now tendons or veins.  The boneless is just about perfect meat to fat ratio.

nepas

[Caribou]

Lookin' good Nepas!
Carolyn

[Tenpoint5]

Looks Great Nepas. I need to make some if I can find the time

[mikecorn.1]

That 8 cent poker look an awfull lot like my kids corn cob holder.  ;D

[OU812]

Looks like there going 2b good, ah some fresh kielbasa does sound good

I cant belive you ran out of 32 mm caseings  :D

[Tenpoint5]

The Kielbasa snack stixs are really good Nepas I have done that myself before.

[smokeitall]

I can't wait for the finished pics, man those look good.
SIA

[NePaSmoKer]

Looks like there going 2b good, ah some fresh kielbasa does sound good

I cant belive you ran out of 32 mm caseings  :D

I asked my wife where was all my casings, she said you used em all up. Could have sworn i had enough arounf to do 100lbs yet. Brain cramps i guess  ;D

Well its 11:15 pm est and the IT of the kielbasa is 146* Looks like a long night  :-\

nepas

[NePaSmoKer]

Time is 1:26 am EST

The 19mm kielbasa stix are done now blooming. The 32mm have about another hour. The outside temp dropped so its taking longer.


Sorry for the lopsided pic I whooped  ;D  Dont feel like doing a cold rinse so they are going to shrivel, its ok gives em balance  ;D



nepas

[Hopefull Romantic]

Looking great there NePas.

When I grow up, I wanna be just like you.

HR

[NePaSmoKer]

Finally at 3:30 am i got em all done.  Here are the 32mm kielbasa.







I ran out of 32mm casings and vac bags. Geez i'm falling behind  :D


nepas

[pensrock]

Rick, did you put powdered milk in to help control the shrinkage? They look great, I never thought of doing kielbasa snack sticks, another thing on my to do list.  LOL, I'm not even married and have a long to do list.  ;D