Hello Everyone
After two months of not doing much of anything on Sunday i decided to make some sausages i did 15 pounds of summer sausages with hi temp cheddar cheese and 10 pounds of snack stix
Sunday started out pretty good i got my smoker insulated and all set up during the two months of laying around i got up early around 0500 and started grinding mixing and stuffing around 0800 i put all the sausages into the smoker and turned on the power i opened the door to check things before i got going about my day when i touched the door i got a nice shock ouch something is wrong so i shut off the power and check it out i find that my heating element is broke in half
so i go back into the house now what am i gonna do its Sunday nothing is open and not at this hour so i decide to drive across town to an appliance repair shop and i was right its closed well its a small town i figured i could knock on the door and get what i needed no problem i was wrong again i knocked on the door and a young lady answers the door hi i need a heating element dads not home he will be home around 5 pm give me your number i will have him call you when he gets back into town
so i decide to go lok at the landfill its closed go to the wrecking yard no ovens there call all my buddys who have smokers one guy has a small oven and says i can get the burner out of it i do and go home and give it a go its now 2 pm everything is going ok 120 for an hour no prob 120 for another hour no prob raise temp up to 140 and smoker temp wont go above 125 i raise the temp up to 160 the smoker does not go above 125 raise the temp up to 180 and the smoker temp goes to 130 and i cannot get it above 130
Stage two i move all the sausages into the wifes oven to finish them off i set the temp to 170 and the sausages take all night to get up to a safe eating temp i pulled everything out at 0430 and had to get up and go to work at 0500 so no sleep that night
i work all day and come home and still have 7 pounds of Jerky to do so i load the GOSM up and set temp at 225 and smoked the jerky for 4 hours
everything turned out great but what a long day here are the pics LOL
http://s44.photobucket.com/albums/f45/salmonclubber/smoking/?action=view¤t=101_0394.jpg
http://s44.photobucket.com/albums/f45/salmonclubber/smoking/?action=view¤t=101_0396.jpg
http://s44.photobucket.com/albums/f45/salmonclubber/smoking/?action=view¤t=101_0397.jpg
After two months of not doing much of anything on Sunday i decided to make some sausages i did 15 pounds of summer sausages with hi temp cheddar cheese and 10 pounds of snack stix
Sunday started out pretty good i got my smoker insulated and all set up during the two months of laying around i got up early around 0500 and started grinding mixing and stuffing around 0800 i put all the sausages into the smoker and turned on the power i opened the door to check things before i got going about my day when i touched the door i got a nice shock ouch something is wrong so i shut off the power and check it out i find that my heating element is broke in half
so i go back into the house now what am i gonna do its Sunday nothing is open and not at this hour so i decide to drive across town to an appliance repair shop and i was right its closed well its a small town i figured i could knock on the door and get what i needed no problem i was wrong again i knocked on the door and a young lady answers the door hi i need a heating element dads not home he will be home around 5 pm give me your number i will have him call you when he gets back into town
so i decide to go lok at the landfill its closed go to the wrecking yard no ovens there call all my buddys who have smokers one guy has a small oven and says i can get the burner out of it i do and go home and give it a go its now 2 pm everything is going ok 120 for an hour no prob 120 for another hour no prob raise temp up to 140 and smoker temp wont go above 125 i raise the temp up to 160 the smoker does not go above 125 raise the temp up to 180 and the smoker temp goes to 130 and i cannot get it above 130
Stage two i move all the sausages into the wifes oven to finish them off i set the temp to 170 and the sausages take all night to get up to a safe eating temp i pulled everything out at 0430 and had to get up and go to work at 0500 so no sleep that night
i work all day and come home and still have 7 pounds of Jerky to do so i load the GOSM up and set temp at 225 and smoked the jerky for 4 hours
everything turned out great but what a long day here are the pics LOL
http://s44.photobucket.com/albums/f45/salmonclubber/smoking/?action=view¤t=101_0394.jpg
http://s44.photobucket.com/albums/f45/salmonclubber/smoking/?action=view¤t=101_0396.jpg
http://s44.photobucket.com/albums/f45/salmonclubber/smoking/?action=view¤t=101_0397.jpg