Beef Sticks with Home Made Stuffing Tubes....

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 I have the Dakotah water stuffer modified to use air instead of water.

Works great.

Rich
 
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   Be VERY careful using that thing!! You have basically turned your plastic stuffer into a live grenade. If it ever hangs up it's probably gonna come apart. Again - be careful...
 
Happy New Year Dave, Just read your post about making the stuffer tubes.

My sin and I was making snack stix a few weeks ago, I have the Dakotah water stuffer modified to use air instead of water. Anyway My son leaned on the stuffing tube to hard and broke it right up close to where ift flared out to fit the suffer body.

I picked up a 1/2" X 12" piece of thinwall SS tube, did what you did and slid it inside the original section of the stuffing tube. Now I have a 12" stuffing tube instead of the shorter one that came with my stuffer.

Works great.

Rich
 
Rich...  There was a post the other day about a water stuffer converted to air that exploded.... Sending the piston at his wife and hitting her in the head.....   Using air, it is a bomb waiting for a failure point to send shrapnel everywhere...  Please put it back to water before you or your loved ones get hurt.....   Water does not compress so if it fails, no problem..... With air, there is a pile of air looking for somewhere to go.....   

Dave

Didn't mean to gang up on you..... Saw your post and started typing before I read the rest of them.....   
 
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Looking real tasty Dave..I think you are getting the hang of this stuffing thing...

  Craig
At my age it takes awhile..... Thank goodness for all the experts here saving me from too many failures..... 
 
 
By the way Dave thanks agian  for the other day for your help on my pp turned out great having pp tacos tonight

Happy new yrs

When you get this perfected i would luv to get recipe to make them if I could

Thanks agian - Steve
Steve, here it is.....  nepas concocted this I do believe......  When it first came out of the smoker and I tasted it, I was going to ditch the thyme... today it is perfect... Not changing a thing.... 

The one variation was I added AmesPhos to the mix.... after reading about it on the forum and checking out the supplier, I decided I needed to try it...   Oh, I also used beef consomme instead of water.... I added a whole 10 oz can to 2 1/2 #'s of meat.... Holy cow, the meat was swimming....   Sure was easy to push through the tube though...   I had a brain f@rt when I did that.....  Next batch will be 10 #'s and no changes to the recipe....     One more thing... all the experts we have on this forum, sure makes life easy-peasy for idiots like me... 

Dave

http://www.smokingmeatforums.com/t/114455/stick-batch
 
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I'm kinda confused....12 hours at 100 degrees and 12 hours more in the smoker?? That seems like an awful long time??
Stayhot, evening..... Maybe you don't know who nepas is..... When nepas says...... I say OK......... Like in his post he says, "I started making sausage in 1977"....... What would you do ????????

No point in trying to improve on the best......     Dave
 
Way to go Dave!  Seems like they work really well.  I actually need to find a 3/8 or 10mm tube for my grizzly.  I modified one of the old 3/8 tubes that came with my Kitchen Aid but the problem is that the tube is pretty short and doesn't hold very much casing until it starts to flare out.  If I can get 3/4 of an inch of 21mm collagen casings on there I am lucky.  Royal PITA!.  I may have to use this suggestion to modify something on that one of the Kitchen Aid tubes.

Good Job Bro!

Jim
 
 
Dave, your MacGyver work never ceases to amaze.  Wish I had your skills.

Great looking batch of sausage.

Even better, making it with your sweet helper.  Another generation of sausage makers in the works.

Good luck and good smoking.
 
Hi Smokin, Thanks for your comment, I should have added, what I actually use is a CO/2 tank run through a presure regulator and I regulate the presure to 20 PSI.

Thanks Rich
 
 
Dave, I never let more than 20 PSI of pressure go to the stuffer. I use a co/2 tank with a regulator set for a max of 20 PSI going to the stuffer. My stuffer is never exposed to more than 20 PSI internal presure.

I am aware of the dangers of over presuizing the stuffer, Worked as a heavy equipment mechanic all my working life. Been down that road of to much presure.

This is not meant as a soucastic reply, I just wanted to explain my experience with such things.

Rich
 
Rich, I didn't intend to come off as a jerk, I have seen what compressed air can do.... Saw a guy at work with compound upon compound fractures in his leg.... Off work 9 months and then medical discharged.... I was on the scene 10 sec after it happened.... UGLY I tell ya... You wouldn't believe what compressed air can do....   He was in shock and it was not pretty....  
 
Dave the tubes you made are awesome.

If i take pics of the tubes on my Dakota you think you could make one?

Dakota only has 2 tube sizes.
 
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Dave the tubes you made are awesome.

If i take pics of the tubes on my Dakota you think you could make one?

Dakota only has 2 tube sizes.
Yep...  need some critical measurements too...  flange or thread size or how to connect it up.....   
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Yep...  need some critical measurements too...  flange or thread size or how to connect it up.....   
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Roger that.

looks like i gotta get the tripod out so i can take measurements.
 
Laser or optical ????   Optical I think, you being an "old school" kind of guy.... emphasis on "old" "guy".....
 
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