Hybrid Smoked Kielbasa

[NePaSmoKer]

Doing 5 lbs of smoked kielbasa this morning in the M/B Hybrid smoker.

Mixed in my bucket mixer. (sorry hard to take pics and mix at same time)


Going rope style.



Smoke stick this rope.



This 2 lbs going on a Bradley rack.



Setting on controller is smoke 180* Bradley temp IT is 100* so i will smoke for a few hours then bump the heat to 225*

[Caribou]

Looks good Nepas :)
Carolyn

[ghost9mm]

Is that one of those secret recipe or will you have to kill me if you give it to me...lol

[NePaSmoKer]

Got the M/B Kielbasa done.




Hanging for a cool down.




As with everything there are Pro's & Con's

Here are mine.

Pro's

Give real smokehouse style results
Was fun to build.
Makes a great cold smoker for cooler outside temps.
Heavy smoke.
Can use smoke stix (sausage rods) and racks at the same time.
If you have a larger item to take just smoke you can put inside the main area (just smoke) while using the side smoke box.
I can still use my 4 rack with the Bradley cold smoker if needed.




Con's

Takes longer to smoke due to indirect heat.
Pellet consumption was almost 8 1/4 lbs.
Vents on the MAK need to be covered. Right side top and one of the vents on the bottom smoke box.
Had to remote the MAK temp to 325* to get a Bradley IT of 168* Maybe next time use my top draw fan.

Anyways i'm happy with it.  ;D

[FLBentRider]

Looks excellent!

How long did it take?

That's a lot of pellets!

[pensrock]

Rick, can't you plug in the bradley to help with the heat?

[NePaSmoKer]

Rick, can't you plug in the bradley to help with the heat?

I took everything out of the 4 rack.

[SouthernSmoked]

Looks great Rick, I like the M/B Hybrid smoker.

[pikeman_95]

Looks really good Rick. I had to go back to your build post to figure out what you did. Were you happy the results?? The sausage looks real good.

KC

[NePaSmoKer]

Looks really good Rick. I had to go back to your build post to figure out what you did. Were you happy the results?? The sausage looks real good.

KC

Yeah happy with the results. I have lots of time to do r&d  ;D

[OU812]

Them kielbasa look gooood and the color em looks GREAT.

[Keymaster]

Those do look killer!!!!

[NePaSmoKer]

How bouts a $ shot








Ready for? Oh wherever

[Tenpoint5]

Looks really good Rick. 8+ pounds of pellets for the cook. Does that make it cost/pellet prohibitive to do this?

[carnie1]

Looks good, did I see my name on 1 of those bags?  ;D