Made these up this fall a while back and thought I would share some pictures with ya all. Made up a batch of Kielbasa using some left over summer sausage casing's I had. I even remembered to cut them in half to help them fit in the smoker Here's the Pork and beef ground up using the course plate. ht...

andrejwout I been reading your post and was wondering where are you storing your pastrami after you open it from the vac. pack? If it's inside a fridge that has a auto defrost that will suck the remaining moisture out of your pastrami in no time at all. I have had some summer sausage I found at the ...

Well done Chuckwagon. I like to see when people run a tight ship, good for you and keep up the good work you do around here.

For anyone who is interested in using natural cures based on celery products, some excellent work has been done by Prof. Joe Sebranek in the Dept. of Meat Science at Iowa State University. A forewarning - the references noted below are academic in nature and are not the easiest reading (lots of $50 ...

Picked two small fillets of wild salmon yesterday, price is out of this world. Used Kummok recipe with Soy Vay Veri Veri Teriyaki. Getting air dried under the kitchen fan for three hours to get a good pellicle/glaze to form. https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-NQ6mK6-S7tI/Ts62tnfN-vI/AAAAAAAABkQ/VFMI...

That is a really cool idea, I put this one in my recipe vault and thanks for the post

what will you do when your cold winter weather prevents you from going outside with the water thing? No need to go outside, run this thing in the kitchen. Here are some links from the fellow who builds these things. He also built a mixer. Every thing he builds is top notch and will do large loads. ...

I now have an electric pump hooked up but the small drill pump works just fine. Thats the round thing in the center of the picture

I almost got a 5lb vert. stuffer, but heard about a guy who builds his own hydro-powered horiz. tube stuffers. I was intrigued enough to have him send me the plans & some of the machined parts that I'm unable to create, and built one from parts I located at the local hardware stores. The 'Kirby Can...

Nothing special about my smoker, just a 4 rack digital bradley. Made a cold smoke adaptor for it. Made this up with a broken microwave from work. The recycling places are full of these things. All you need is a dryer vent hose and some short pipe connectors. A good pair of sheet metal cutters and a ...