Well if your going to eat, you need ingredients. So Sunday my son and I made Smoked Kielbasa. All of my kids have helped with making the various sausages that I make but Sunday was special. While we were getting ready to get going I mentioned that he really needed to pay attention to how things worked as someday I wouldn't be around and since he'd helped the most it would be him making the sausages in the future. He then said that he wanted to run the stuffer, place the casings on, then link the casings and put them on the smoke sticks.
He did a great job! Here's a few pics after stuffing while he was linking;
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Here he's using the boning knife to measure the links for uniformity;
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Here's some on a smoke stick ready for the smoker;
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We decided to try something different so we stuffed some 3 and 7/8" X 24" collagen casings;
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Well my smoker started acting up and we barely got the linked sausage done so I put the collagen casings ones in the freezer and am hoping it'll turn out right in a day or so. With that said, here's a few of the finished links. All others are packaged, frozen and ready to use or just eat with cheese and crackers. Some of them will be Christmas Presents;
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I hope all have enjoyed.