Thread: Sausage and Smoke Cooking

Originally Posted by 32t

sounds like how to do potato sausage.

I've only made one batch of potato sausage and I didn't even sample it. I made it for a customer who's wife was from Sweden and she longed for that sausage so I made him a batch from the recipe I had from the book I learned from and gave it to him in a Ziploc bag filled with water so the potatoes didn't turn brown.

He said she really enjoyed it---but I didn't see him again--

The best recipe I have heard is 1/2 Pork, 1/2 beef, and 1/2 potatoes.

Originally Posted by 32t

The best recipe I have heard is 1/2 Pork, 1/2 beef, and 1/2 potatoes.

This is the recipe I used:

Makes 5 Lbs

1 small onion cut up
1 Tablespoon plain salt
1 1/2 teaspoons ground black pepper
1 teaspoon ground allspice
1 cup non-fat dry milk
1 cup ice cold water
6 potatoes peeled and cut up (approx 6 cups)
1 1/2 lbs lean boneless beef
1 lb lean boneless pork

Grinding and mixing

Grind the meat, potatoes and onion through a 3/8" plate and place in a mixer. Add all the other ingredients with the water and mix well.

Then regrind through a 3/16" plate. Stuff into 35-38 mm hog casings.

This sausage is a very perishable product, it keeps best frozen.

The idea of keeping the finished product in water was my idea.

Well my dry cured soppressata is ever so slowly losing weight.

It's been two weeks to the day since they went into my frost free frig. Here's the progress report;

Original weights:

163--
685--
738--
923--

03/15--143
03/15-- 634
03/15--689
03/15--835

03/22--126
03/22--581
03/22--641
03/22--756

The small one is a ball shape and it's lost about 25% of the weight. I'm thinking this is due to not only being small but with more surface area for moisture to be drawn out of.

The largest has lost about 18% of the weight and the other two about 20%.

Originally Posted by cudarunner

ThermoWorks is discontinuing their Purple ThermoPens. Limited Supplies

https://www.thermoworks.com/?trk_msg...k4-closeout-cs

They ran out of the purple ones but had orange ones on sale also.

So I am going to get an orange one.

Originally Posted by 32t

They ran out of the purple ones but had orange ones on sale also.

So I am going to get an orange one.

Atta Boy!

When I drop it in the grass it will be easier to find!

I have been looking at some of their more expensive units and want to check this one out.

I'm trying a small batch of breakfast sausage from a new recipe. The recipe is from the guy who had that great percentage way of measuring to make bacon.

It's 'OK', but I think I'll make another batch and add some ingredients from another recipe which my kids really like.

I've usually had help with guiding the sausage casings as they filled but yesterday it was just me and I struggled with blowouts. I used sheep casings and they are very easily torn.

I've always had the stuffer facing the middle of the table but when I went to stuff the last bit a light bulb came on and I turned the stuffer around and used a baking pan to catch the sausage and it worked great! In fact a little too great as the casings filled a bit too full and a couple of times when I used my thumb and forefinger to indent the casing to twist it the casing ruptured.



Here's before I made individual sausages.



I've packaged the links for the kids, my son picked his up last night. I'll take the rest to the others tomorrow. I used part of the slop from the stuffer to fry and get an idea of how it tasted. The rest is frozen and I'll take it to Ski to try.

C clamps on the dining room table.

My kind of guy!

Originally Posted by 32t

C clamps on the dining room table.

My kind of guy!

Just ONE of the advantages of not having a SWMBO Plus that table is my workbench. I prep bread on it, make sausage, pin razors AND it also doubles as a place to serve food and eat on!

Many, many years ago the company I worked produce for used an electric 'Lettuce Trimmer' to cut the butts of of head lettuce and other things. All it was was a 1/3rd HP electric motor mounted on a frame that had a coupling fixture that held an injector razor blade--Safety First????

At the time they used a company known as Harold's Electric for 99.9% of any repair work. Anyway the thing needed new bearings as you could hear it rattling from one end of the back room to the other when it was running but the store manager wouldn't pay Harold's to have it fixed so I took it upon myself to write down the motor's serial number and buy new bearings and brushes. Then one day when I got off at 2 pm I took it home and rebuilt it on my kitchen table and brought it back that night.

The very next day, the store manager came by when I was using it while it hummed away and he exploded! God Damn It Roy! I told you I wasn't going to pay Harold's to have that fixed!

I told him that Harold's hadn't fixed it that I'd done it at home.

He stood there like a deer in the headlights for a moment then said; God Damn It! That's working Off The Clock! I told him that I didn't consider sitting at my table drinking beers 'Work'.

He said that he'd put me in for two hours OT to cover my time and thanked me for caring enough about the companies property to take care of it.

Man I miss him. Cancer took him far too young. His two daughters were still in school. One in Jr High the Other a Sophomore in High School.