Sausage making day

[miket]

I have caught up on all my projects for the the moment and business is super slow so I figured this weekend would be a good one to make a batch of sausage. I have couple of bags of deer pieces and some bags of wild pig that have been begging to be used. I decided to just grind the deer and package it for chili etc. I weighed the pork and bought fat Friday after work. Started this morning. Pics to come.

[miket]

Sigh....pic posting issues...

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The meat




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The deer meat



Ground



Vac packed


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The spices. Doing 20lb smoked sausage and 12lb breakfast sausage



First grind through the 3/8" plate



Mixed in the spices for the link sausage and ran it through the fine plate. The meat for the breakfast sausage went back in the freezer till I was ready for it



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Loaded up the stuffer and got busy. Used natural casings till I ran out and had to finish with collagen ( you can see the darker color )





Ready to dry it before putting it in the smoker



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Drying



Going in the smoker.





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Now that its in the smoker its time to season and mix the breakfast sausage. Decided to do a couple dozen patties and the rest in bags.





Apparently forgot to take pics of the meat before packaging

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[bowenarra]

Sausage making day

Looks great! Let us know how it turns out.

[miket]

It wasnt the plan but ended up only smoking the ones in the natural casing. I have heard smoke doesnt penetrate collagen very well though I have never tried it. Unsmoked links packaged




Links out of the smoker and hanging again to bloom



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Taking on some color now.



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Good enough for me



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[coy-ote]

nice

[mvill]

Very nice.

[PBUCKSHOT]

***** Mike, looks like you've done it a time or two before. One day I'll start doing it myself too.