Hi guys,

I am pretty new to the forum but have been curing whole muscles and sausages for about six months now using the common converted fridge setup with pretty good results so far...

Anyway, I have recently restored an old building on our property which measures about 4x5m with a ceiling...

Did a little research on food processors, as I'm looking to get a new one, with largest capacity available for home use, and making emulsions.

I landed on this model at Amazon

It's the largest home use model available, with great reviews. One review was a kitchen chef who stated this machine...

I did some searching and didn't find any threads and or post that talked about a moisture meter.

So, I have a moisture meter that I use to check the moisture of my fire wood.
Would a meter like that one, or perhaps another type of moisture be a good tool to have to check the moisture in your meats...

I had a Cabela's 20lb manual meat mixer for a number of years. I rarely used it because when I do a small batch, I do it by hand, and when I did have 20lbs of sausage, it's pretty darned hard to crank for 20 minutes to get a proper mix. And doing it by hand is cold and not very pleasant. Cabela's...

A little over a year ago I stopped using my Smokai brand smoke generator. It was producing a large amount of tar, the smoke colour was more white than blue and I suspect that it imparted a slight bitter flavour. I replaced it with the Amazen 12 smoker tube and I couldn't be happier. Easier to run...

I have a question about using the kidney plate without the blade, when I tried that before
the auger would wabble and the square end of the auger got damaged which I filed so I`m still ok. what am I doing wrong ? I have a #12 uniworld grinder.
I really enjoy this forum I read it everyday. 1st...

I am thinking about selling my sausage stuffer. I believe its a 10 liter unit. Excellent unit with two speed gear system. I am thinking $ 400.00 is a very good price. Send me a pm if you are interested. I live in Victoria.

Bert

Hi,

I use beef middle casings to make chorizo - and until now I've just been sealing the casings with string. The trouble is I too often suffer from the string slipping off and the sausage falls to the ground. Also it takes ages fiddling about with the string trying to make it as tight as...

Hi,

I've bought a bowl cutter. I'm hoping to use it instead of a grinder to improve the texture of Chorizo. Any tips on how to use it best? i.e :

- how long should I run it for when cutting pork?
- should I still grind the fat?
- what difference should I expect to the end result because I used a...

Anyone know where I can get some Hemp butcher twine here on Vancouver Island?

Bert

Hi everyone,
I am on the path to buy Smokin-It #3 electrical smoker mainly for making sausages and not for cooking/smoking meats like ribs, buts, briskets and so on. As soon I will be dealing (mainly) with sausages, I need to keep very precise temperature - preferably within 5 degrees. After...

Hi everyone,
In spite I went through this forum and found several posts discussing vacuum sealers but I did not really found an answer for my question: which sealer is better.
I am not going to but a vacuum chamber because I don't do too much of packaging but need a relatively powerful and reliable...

Anyone use a sous vide to finish sausage after smoking. I know some poach after smoking directly in water but I was wondering if after smoking placing the smoked sausage in a zip lock bag and then use a sous vide to finish without directly going into water. Then placing the same zip lock bag into...

Anybody use them? I bought one for cold smoking and am a little unsure if you can use it all by itself without another heat source? Just light it and let it go? I have country hams that will be getting some smoke in a couple months. If I can just light it and let it go that would be perfect.I could...

Anyone ever try these. More money than an ordinary bucket but it is intriging.

Is anyone using one of these?

I did my first 14# batch this weekend and I felt like I was over mxing before getting the seasonings properly incorporated. Not to mention 14# of freezing cold meat is kinda uncomfortable. I saw the above mixer and was wondering if anyone had any experience with...

I got a PH meter from Aliexpress. It has a glass probe. I'm just curious if I'm using it right. I have test solutions and it seems fine with liquid. When testing the meat do you just put the probe directly into the meat? It works fine with the test solutions and distilled water but I'm getting...

For those of you that have followed my posts you've probably noticed I have a fair bit of equipment in my small man shed . This is my meat shop/bow building/reloading/quiet place. I posted some pics in another thread of my new chamber. I had to remove my wood stove to fit it in but I have gas heat...

It's another cold Alberta weekend, which means tinkering and sausage making until it warms up in the afternoon to go X country skiing. I've made Landjaeger a few times and just press it in a meat lug. I had this big chunk of racquet ball flooring I was going to use for a cutting board but went with...

Sometimes it's worth the time to visit a thrift store. Today I found just what I needed when making emulsified sausages. Making finely crushed ice was a real problem as I tried a blender and the bag and hammer trick but just could not pulverize it finely enough. I was amazed how well this cheap...

I can't find any mention of this anywhere on the internet, so I suspect it might be either unbelievably obvious or unbelievably ridiculous, but.... does anyone use a vegetable dicer to chop up frozen fat?

How many of you are still mixing your ground meat and spices by hand?

I know Bob K has one of those nice metal paddle mixers!

My wife and I trade off mixing with food service gloves on, but still end up with near frostbite sharing the mixing duty by hand!

Do the meat mixers work well enough to...

Hi welcome everyone.
I have weston stuffer 5 lb , works good,but after job is done i ended up with a 0,5 lb leftovers from the horn.
Any idea to minimize this problem,some folks use bread to push meat through the horn to casings, but I don't know if is good idea.

I intend to make salami today but realized I don't know how to use my PH probe. I have the Milwaukee MA920B probe, green in color with a pointed tip. I think I can just stick it into the meat right before stuffing and take a reading. But once its cased and curing , do I just punch the probe through...

Some of us old boys never get tired of new toys and so I added to my collection. :lol: For some time I have been looking at getting a sous vide heater and circulator for poaching sausage and when Anova dropped the price to $139 with free shipping, how could you not?

Gave it a test run yesterday...

I'm looking to purchased a reasonably priced pH meter shortly and have read several comments about a few on this site, Thermoworks, my-messgeraet, Lutron, Hanna etc. Some are just to pricey for my needs such as the Hanna. If found the Milwaukee MW102 on Amazon for $113.00.

BobK appears to have...

I'm still a new guy and slow to get this done as my job is out of town a lot. Be that as it may, I am planning to use a small ceramic heater that has a small fan and I will use it on the low setting. (low = fan speed) It just runs a minute or so to bring the temp up once its reached. The chamber is...

Princess Auto has their 5lb stuffer on sale for $99. Great deal especially when you consider our low dollar. Princess Auto will also will refund your money at any time if you are not satisfied with the product. I bought my 11lb stuffer from them and they went out of their way to bring in a relief...

looks very interesting application
possibility to check salt, sugar, water maybe bacterials too in the meat :roll:

For quite some time I've been looking for a used small Hobart or Berkel bowl cutter. Something that is reconditioned and in good operating shape runs at over $1,800. There are always a few around for under a thousand on eBay, but they are sold as is , so without testing them in person, it's quite...

Hey guys,

I have a brand new LEM 10 lb sausage stuffer for sale. Unopened. I'm asking $195 for it plus shipping. These normally sell for $300. If you're interested send me a message or txt me with your zip code and I can get a shipping cost. 9O3-8O6-0899

Thanks,
Nick

My Chinese pH electrode arrived today. $38USD with free shipping via registered mail. I was afraid that the one I have will fail one of these days and wanted a spare.

It has a standard BNC connector, but did not come with a cord so I have one on order for 5 dollars. I was still able to connect...

I will add to this thread as I get more comfortable using the Hanna Halo bluetooth PH meter.

Here are my initial observations:

1) Probe will give you a warning if you try to read the PH of anything with a temp under 32F. My meat mix after casing was 25F and I stuck my meter in it and it said...

While browsing Craigslist today I saw an ad for an older Berkel slicer.
Ad said it was in great shape and blade was sharp.

Called the number and a lady answered, said she owned a bar and that they bought the slicer 4 years ago (used) in hopes of opening a sandwich shop inside the bar.

Instead...

I have had a food saver vacuum sealer for a few years now and I was thinking about upgrading to a chamber style. The food saver works but it does not always give me a good vacuum and you have to get the bags just right for it to vacuum. It also does poor with anything that has liquid in it like raw...

Hi,
I bought used Berkel e-222 grinder.
I got it cleaned up and put it all together.
I tried to manually sharpen the plate and knife on a piece of granite and different sheets of sandpaper and emory cloth. I did fair job sharpending it... not great, the plate had some grooves in it that I need to...

I had to order more cut and tied beef middles, and more beef bungs so I went to the Craft Butchers Pantry website. The site is back up now after Evans move to Chicago.

He had the Hanna Halo PH meter on the website, so I went ahead and ordered one.
I also bought bottles of both calibration...

I made the mistake of putting a piece of my stuffer in the dishwasher. Turns out it was aluminum. I didn't think it was as it looked to be made of SS. Well it came out with a black reside all over and I'm having one heck of a time trying to get it back to the way it was. Is it possible to get it...

I have an opportunity to buy a used ProProcessor SF-150 Rapid Sausage Stuffer at a very reasonable price. Fully functional, missing the foot pedal. Any pros or cons, advice on price, experience using this stuffer, etc, would be great. I think it's a 30 lb stuffer.

Thanks,

Rich

Or should I say old farts aids.

I used to grind with a hand grinder, mix by hand, Stuff with a 3 lb horn. And wash all by hand to clean up. Arg!

Now its a 1 Hp electric grinder, Hand cranked mixer, and a 7L. stuffer.
Got all the toys out this A.M.

Time to try out the new curing chamber.

Pre...

Hi all,

I'm a new member here so this my first post looking for a bit of help...

Last night I made a batch of sausages and everything went as planned until it came to dismantling and cleaning my grinder/stuffer - the fixing ring just wouldn't unscrew, wouldn't budge an inch. I tried with all my...

Have a opportunity to get a Cabelas 20 lb mixer cheap.
Anybody have one, anything good or bad to say about it.
The guy that has it used it once and did not like it.
Although they don't run and hide our boys are tired of freezing there hands every time we butcher.
Have read reviews good and bad on...

I am thinking about buying this mixer for home use becuase i am getting a lot more orders in for selling sausage . i just bought a talsa and i am going to need a meat mixer and looking at buying this one click on the link below and check it out . i got the guy down to 1600 dollers brand new cash....

i just bought a talsa stuffer for home use production bacuase this thing is just awesome and can fill casings very quickly and it will probably last me a long time. Tell me what you think of this stuffer. does anyone on this forum use a hydrualic stuffer ? click on the link below and also check out...

So I'd like to get a pH meter, but a Hanna is just out of the price range. Can anyone comment to this ThermoWorks meter?

I have had this controler 1/16 DIN PID Controller w/Ramp/Soak Item #: SYL-2372P from .auberins.com and K type thermocouple 4 probe for almost three three years. I was going to put into my bigger smoker but never got around to it. Had some spare time this morning and decided to put it together. I...

If I didn't already have a Hanna Ph probe meter I think I would get one of these. I love technology :wink: