Looking for info on making smoked sausage.

[lennyluminum]

I have been making fresh sausage for years now but I want to try some smoked sausage. And more specifically smoked jalapeno cheddar sausage like you would get at a barbecue restaurant. Can you guys give me the run down on times and temps for smoking sausage and if you have a good recipe for jalapeno cheddar sausage that would be awesome as well.

I know you're supposed to start off low for an hour to let it dry and then at the end you're supposed to pull it out of the smoker and ice bath it and then let it rest on the counter to bloom. but I'm not really sure why you want it to bloom and I'm not really sure what that means.

I appreciate everybody's help thank you!

 

[indaswamp]

check the link in my sig. for jalapeno and cheddar recipe...

 

[indaswamp]

Read through the sausage sticky @ the top of the page. Lots of good info there.

 

[tropics]

Don't forget to use cure #1 smoking at those low temps.
Richie

 

[indaswamp]

Blooming sausage just means hanging it so the casing can dry. The color will deepen. It's a visual thing really. Plus, dry links make vacuum packaging easier....

 

[indaswamp]

One of the keys to making great smoke sausage is to use a minimum of 20% fat. Also, mix the meat very well for ~2 minutes. You want that meat to be so sticky that when you pull your gloved hand out of the meat paste, 1~2 pounds of meat sticks to your glove. That is how you get a great bind in your sausages. The denatured proteins are the reason why it becomes sticky, and those denatured protiens will bind a lot of water during the smoking process and help keep your links moist....

 

[indaswamp]

The #1 all time best thread you need to read to get started making smoke sausages.

By Crankybuzzard....
https://www.smokingmeatforums.com/threads/best-practices-for-sausage-making.255662/

 

[lennyluminum]

The #1 all time best thread you need to read to get started making smoke sausages.

By Crankybuzzard....
https://www.smokingmeatforums.com/threads/best-practices-for-sausage-making.255662/

Thank you this is exactly what I was looking for.

 

[lennyluminum]

check the link in my sig. for jalapeno and cheddar recipe...

Can't see your signature From my phone

 

[indaswamp]

Be sure to read all the way through that thread by Crankybuzzard, lot of tips in the posts...

Here's the sausage link:
https://www.smokingmeatforums.com/t...oke-sausage-snack-links.271905/#post-1789771/