Good find

[perchking]

Cleaning out the freezer, I ended up finding about 25lbs of venny from last year. So if course I smoked up some venny and extra sharp cheddar snack sticks. 

 

[leech~~]

I have to make up some jerky soon before this years deer comes back from the butcher. The wife's not going for another freezer!

The sticks look great.

Edited November 14, 2017 by leech~~

[rl_sd]

PK, those look awesome! Care to share your recipe?

[perchking]

Sure, I used about 21 lbs of venny, 4 lbs of pork shoulder 2.5lbs of extra sharp cheddar (I like high temp cheese but don’t like the price) and PS seasoning. I think PS seasoning is as good as it gets and it comes with everything so it’s real easy. I used collegen 21mm casing. I dried them out at 120 degrees for an hour or so then 4-5 hrs at 160 with heavy smoke or until internal temps hit 140-145. Let them cool and vacume seal them the next day. This is my go to recipe that is hard to screw up. My kids chew these sticks up!

[rl_sd]

Awesome! Do you cube the cheddar? In the pics it almost looks like it is injected directly in the middle!

[perchking]

1 hour ago, rl_sd said:

Awesome! Do you cube the cheddar? In the pics it almost looks like it is injected directly in the middle!

Yes, I invented a patent pending suffer tube that does that....

 

Kidding of course, that was totally luck which was the reason I took that pic:)  The cheese is basically just chunked up, I chop them with a chefs cleaver until they are the size of a eraser head on a pencil any bigger I have issues with it clogging my stuffer. It fairly easy with a dry crumbly extra sharp cheddar any thing else is just to sticky and doesn't stay together during the process.

[rl_sd]

So you don’t grind the cheese in with the meat then? Sorry for all the questions, but I have tried this a few times and never seem to get it right

[perchking]

Nope,  I grind the pork and venny only once then mix in the seasoning and hand mix it all together.  I then let it sit for at least 24hrs, I add the copped up cheese and mix it again by hand right before I stuff it.

[Flash]

Where do you get PS Seasoning?

Flash

Set the Hook!!

[perchking]

We have local grocery stores that carry it in Norther Wisc, but you could also buy it on one. 

 

https://www.psseasoning.com/collections/sausage-seasoning

 

[PurpleFloyd]

Since I had a problem shooting straight it's safe to say I won't need to buy one of these to help with my processing.