Pre Summer Sausage

[NePaSmoKer]

Doing some summer sausage for my neighbor. 80/20 all GB, smoking with pecan. Starting at 140* no smoke for 1.5 hours. Bumping to 150* with 5 pucks pecan. Not going to exceed 175* with this summer.



2 full chubs with a mini mie  :D Total just about 4.96 lbs

[NePaSmoKer]

Getting with it.

[pensrock]

Looks great.  :)

[Tenpoint5]

Looks good so far. That six rack is starting to get some nice coloring in it.

[dbondy]

Looking good, can,t wait to see it finished, I also like the casings.

[RickWL63]

Looks good Nepas.  I'm all out of deer meat, so my next batch will have to be GB too.

[Up In Smoke]

Looks great Nepas,
looking forward to the finished product.
i have got to try making some......i am starting to gain a little confidence in the snack stick sausage
area.
trying to ramp up to the summer stuff.

[OU812]

Lookin good NePas.

You gotta be on the home stretch by now, just waitin for that last 10 deg.

[NePaSmoKer]

I hit the stall point @136* about an hour and half ago. Should be ready to climb again soon. 

[OU812]

I hit the stall point @136* about an hour and half ago. Should be ready to climb again soon. 

Bummer. I hate it when it stalls that long.

[NePaSmoKer]

I hit the stall point @136* about an hour and half ago. Should be ready to climb again soon. 

Bummer. I hate it when it stalls that long.

Yeah and what a quick temp rise. Went back out and they were done  ;D The little mini mie chub got an air pocket in it, guess i will keep the little guy  ;D

Got em hanging now and when cool going in the fridge for a couple days.

[OU812]

I was wonderin how quick they would climb with a stall that long, good thing you check on them when you did.

[NePaSmoKer]

Got the mini mie chub cut up. Not bad looking and taste pretty good.

One thing i wont have my neighbor do when he wants summer or bologna is buy the meat  :-\  He got 73/27 and it has just a bit too much fat content for me.

[squirtthecat]

Would ground chuck do?   They always seem to have a decent price on the fresh ground stuff around here...   I think it is 85/15.

[Tenpoint5]

yeah sometimes cheaper is not always better