Ok guys here is the finished product. I have no comparison to give as I have never had a sausage stuffer before but this LEM 5lb unit is AWESOME! I cannot belive how easy it was to use and clean up.
I started with Breakfast sausage (wife's choice) and used Pops recipe and it came out fantastic. I was going to start small but figured if I was going to do the work and make a mess might as well start big (or at least big to me). So i went with 10lbs of pork shoulder. I weighed everything out so all measurements were right on.
Luckily I am in Michigan so my deck out back is my freezer and I was able to get all of the meat really cold (currently 28° here)
Here are the pics!
Spices:
Cutting up and weighing the pork shoulder: (5lb in each bowl)
Weighed and spices ready (also weighed spices)
Hand grinding (yeah I know, if I do this more a new grinder may be in my future) Ground all of it twice:
First couple rings (collagen casing).
All 10lb, I cut this all up into 5" links and will put this in vac bags and freeze.
This was a lot of fun and I will be doing this more. My son got me a spice mix for Bratwurst (for 25lbs) so this may be next.
Thanks for looking
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