stick experiment

[pensrock]

Well I was sitting at home thinking..... I've got a few days and nothing planned and nothing to do. So I decided to make some new kind of sticks. For now I'm not going into the details or what I'll call them. If they are as good as I think they will be I'll share the name and recipe. I think its something no one has tried yet. At least I have never seen it tried before.


Greg's experimental sticks, going into the smoker: @ 130 F and 2 hrs 40 minutes of oak smoke.


More to come after they are finished.

I also am making about 15 pounds of smoked sausages tomorrow. And since I had a couple pounds of leftover ground pork I whipped up some breakfast sausage. I did not take any pictures of the breakfast sausage cause I'm not smoking it so it just looks like any other fresh bulk sausage.

Recipe for my Breakfast sausage.
I have done this with venison before and it was real good. This time I used 100% pork and its great as well.

Greg's Venison Breakfast Sausage
3 pounds ground venison
3 pounds ground pork butt
3 Tbls. salt
2 tsp. pepper
1 Tbls. sage
2 tsp. thyme
1 tsp. cayenne (I now use about 1-1/2t)
1/2 tsp. ground ginger

[NePaSmoKer]

NICE

Them's a secret  :D

[SL2010]

looks good i cant wait to hear what it is

[smokeitall]

If they are half as good as the Gregs Spicy Snack Sticks they will be great....looking forward to this recipe.
SIA

[pensrock]

The results are in....... Greg's Fire-n-Ice BBQ Sticks.  :)

FIRE - from the cayenne and chipotle peppers. ICE - because I used the Icemans Sauce  :)
This was my last jar of Ice's sauce.  :'(

Nepas - have you ever tried BBQ sauce in sticks before? 
I do not remember ever seeing this done, but I have been wrong before. Only once before though.  ::)

I started with the Spicy Stick recipe, modified it some and added a new ingredient: Recipe below.


This opens up a wide variety of sticks from Icemans sauce to CT.
I can see CT turkey sticks in the future......

Coming out of the smoker:



As they come out of the smoker they are ready to eat as a beef stick but I wanted it to be more like a slim jim texture so I put them in the dehydrator for about six hours.
Out of the dehydrator:


Cut up and ready to enjoy.


Recipe:
Greg's Fire-N-Ice BBQ Sticks
5 pounds 85/15 ground beef or venison/fat mix.
1 tsp. Pink Instacure
3 Tbls. salt
2 tsp. black pepper
2 tsp red pepper, I use chipotle pepper
1-1/2 tsp. garlic salt
2 tsp. sugar
2 tsp. cayenne pepper (add more for xtra heat)
1 tsp. smoked papkria (unsmoked is fine as well)
1/2 cup water (mix with cure)
1/2 cup Icemans BBQ sauce or your favorite sauce. Ice's sauce has a little kick to it. Mmmmm

I put them into a preheated smoker at 130F for an hour.
Then bumped it up to 140 and smoked for 2hr 40 minutes. (next time 3 hours) I used oak, (next time hickory)
After the smoke I bumped it up to 160F till they were done.
Optional: I then put them into the dehydrator at 155F for about six hours to remove more moisture.

[smokeitall]

This looks awesome!  I have had BBQ snack sticks up in Duluth, MN a while back and they were great, kind of forgot about them till now  :)  I will give this a try, just wish I had some of that Sop'n Sauce  :(
SIA

[SL2010]

WOW WOW WOW Those looks so good thanks for the recipe thats gonna be my next batch

[Keymaster]

Those look and sound killer!! I definately want to give that a try  :)

[Tenpoint5]

That's a great Idea Greg!! I just need a bottle of Ice's sauce.

[squirtthecat]

CT TURKEY STICKS..    Ding! Ding! Ding!

What does Iceman's sauce taste like?   Any tang to it like vinegar?  (like in Memphis style sauces)

[love the smoke]

What does Iceman's sauce taste like?   

Whatever elixir of the gods taste like, its indescribable

LTS

[pensrock]

What does Iceman's sauce taste like?

There is vinegar in it but not overpowering because it also has molasses. It has habenero peppers in it to spice it up some. Its really hard to describe, I would suggest using your favorite spicy sauce and go from there. That is the beauty of the recipe, depending on the sauce and how much you use, the flavor can change with each batch. This is my last jar so next time I'll have to try something else, maybe John Boy and Billy's hot style sauce?

[NePaSmoKer]

Nice Greg, going to do these.

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[Drac]

Sounds nice.  I got some Sonny Bryant's burnt ends sauce that should add a nice sweet counterpoint.

Jim

[carnie1]

Casper almost licked a hole in my screen, looks like these are first on my list when I get to Fl which will be real soon