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All we have left to do is package smoke sausages today and tomorrow. I have new seals for my vacmaster pro360 thanks to Lisa, so it should go fairly quickly. And I would have changed the title already.....but I can't edit posts! LOL!!Are you done smoking it all? What do you have left to do? Might have to change the title from Processing Day to Processing Week
Well, we know that overworking meat makes a tough chewy meatball or meatloaf.That could be it Fueling Around... the salt sitting on it for a day had to pull out some proteins and when I added the cure and remixed, I developed them even more. Then that coarse grind went thru second grind thru 6mm plate denaturing the proteins even more. With the phosphates in there grabbing on to them tightly....and trapping water too. This sausage is moist and has a GREAT bind!
How did you hold them overnight before the second cook/smoke?OK...when I pulled the sausage off the smoke yesterday, I noticed that the jalapeno and cheese sausage that I hung right near the door had not cooked all the way.
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Back on ice. Quenched in an ice water bath for rapid cool down.How did you hold them overnight before the second cook/smoke?
Got the call @ 7p.m. tonight from my buddy..."Hey man, you want (2) 100# hogs?"
My answer- "Well Hell Yeah!"
WOOOHOOO!!!!!
Buddy- "Meet me at my house in 25 minutes. We gotta drive to the launch to pick them up."
So we did...
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Hogs were MUUUUDDDDDY! Dragged through the swamp to the boat. Shot right at the end of legal light for deer. Hogs had not been dead an hour yet when we picked them up.
After a stop by the Carwash, $3.50 later they were clean from a nice power shower...
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Old man my buddy knows had his niece in the deer stand with him today. The hogs came out at 5:30p.m. and she wanted to shoot them then. Grandpa said, "lets wait and see if a deer steps out. But if not, and they return, then you can shoot them." Well, deer never showed and hogs step out. She shot them both right at the base of the skull and spine. Awesome! No bullet hole in the meat...and no bone fragments to deal with!
I got them gutted then drove to the firehouse....got them packed in Louisiana snow in the bed of the truck....
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...will skin and quarter out into primals with the sunrise tomorrow. It'll be 45*F here for the low so they'll be good till morning.
And THAT my friends....is a Louisiana Saturday Night!!! LOL!!!
Here in TX, feral hogs are considered a pest so we can hunt them day/night and with basically anything (spears, knives, firearms, archery, your car, etc.).
Been thinking about getting one of those 2" stiffing horns for my #22. Would like to talk to someone who has used one to see how much faster it works directly off the grinder during second grind.Just bought a 2" stuffer horn for stuffing the 1# meat bags faster...
Stainless Steel Tube Horn Funnel for Meat Grinder (#12)
Also bought 3 more colors of tape for product in bags...yellow, orange, and black.....color coding is a big plus!!
T.R.U. UPVC-24BS Yellow Poly Bag Sealing Tape: 3/8 in. x 180 yds. (Pack of 1)
Been thinking about getting one of those 2" stiffing horns for my #22. Would like to talk to someone who has used one to see how much faster it works directly off the grinder during second grind.
Just bought a 2" stuffer horn for stuffing the 1# meat bags faster...
Stainless Steel Tube Horn Funnel for Meat Grinder (#12)
Also bought 3 more colors of tape for product in bags...yellow, orange, and black.....color coding is a big plus!!
T.R.U. UPVC-24BS Yellow Poly Bag Sealing Tape: 3/8 in. x 180 yds. (Pack of 1)
I'm going to buy that multi pack for next season....cheaper to go that route. Thanks for the link.Yeah indaswamp you inspired me to get clear/white poly bags I found on the cheap at Ebay and then I bought this variety pack of tape so I could be like you with the bagging and avoid having to buy different bag colors/patterns:
Glad to help!I'm going to buy that multi pack for next season....cheaper to go that route. Thanks for the link.
I love it!!! I bet he is excited about it :)Thought you guys might like to see to mount of the buck my nephew shot this season...
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The euro mounts- first buck he ever killed is not he right, his second on the left.