Annual sausage making fun

[Glass]

Few photos from our annual sausage making weekend. This year we had 4 families make sausage over Presidents day weekend. We made a total of 610 lbs of sausage and tried a lot of different Owens BBQ recipes. My new homemade smoker worked great, the new motorized stuffer was awesome and the new vacuum sealer worked good with no breaks for getting hot. Always nice to have a full freezer!

 

[Walleye_Chaser]

Nice work!! Looks like a blast

 

[JMF]

Mark, you look super excited about it. ;:;rofl

 

[Glass]

Its called concentration, and lack of sleep! Who are you JMF that you know me?

 

[LBrandt]

There is child labor laws you know::: Good to get the kids involed. Grows character and pride.

 

[Jm1986]

Always so much fun making sausage.
Dad and I make sausage about 10 times a year. Always fun, and a great way to perfect a recipe.

 

[Migrator Man]

Its called concentration, and lack of sleep! Who are you JMF that you know me?

How did everything turn out? What was your favorite Owens recipe? Our meat fest uses pretty much exclusively Owens after trying it a couple years back.

 

[2400]

Looks like you had a great family weekend! It seems you have way too much sausage so I'd be happy to take some of the extra off your hands.

 

[RNinND]

why the hearing protection in pic #2? is the grinder that loud?

 

[Glass]

It all turned out really well. We too have been using Owens since we first tried them 4 years ago. They have hands down the best seasoning mixtures I have found so far. I really like the stadium brats, and the spinach feta brats. We made the north county SS this year and that is really good. The Dakota sausage is good with lots of sage flavor. They also have the best Italian mixture.

Hearing protection was needed while grinding cause the thing whined more then a kid....it was loud! wasnt bad while using it to mix though.

Sausage making is one my favorite times of year. It was a tradition started when I was a kid.

 

[BBQBluesMan]

That is a very festive apron! Lol

 

[2400]

My new homemade smoker worked great

How about some more info on your smoker?

 

[Glass]

The smoker is made from old school lunch food warmer. All stainless inside and insulated. The bars/racks on the sides are what the pans used to rest on while warming. I put a larger top vent in as well as 2 vent ports on the bottom. All the vent ports are made from old stainless 3 inch milk pipe. my rods are oak and I got the large racks from capital restaurant supply. I got the burner from home depot and the chip pan is just a round baking sheet. I like to use a mix of cherry, apple, and hickory when I smoke sausage

Overall it seems to work good. Still a few kinks to figure out but I can keep the temp at 130 and if I wanted to hold it at 340. I can fit about 125 lbs of ring sausage in at a time. I tried 100 of summer sausage but it was to much, maybe 50 lbs max for that since it needs to be cooked.

 

[2400]

THANKS!!!

Looks like I need to see if I can find an old food warmer from the hospital they're rehabbing in town.

 

[Glass]

THANKS!!!

Looks like I need to see if I can find an old food warmer from the hospital they're rehabbing in town.

Good luck! I found this one at the farm. We use to use it to smoke meat but it never worked right cause the lack of vents. It hadnt been used for 15+ years. I put about $150 into it, a bargain for what it can smoke.

 

[fj40]

They work well Mine has dutch doors.

 

[Ristorapper]

not only was the sausage stuffed, the brats stuffed, the summer sausage stuffed. You damn near stuffed that fridge as full as you could get it.

 

[Glass]

not only was the sausage stuffed, the brats stuffed, the summer sausage stuffed. You damn near stuffed that fridge as full as you could get it.

Your telling me, I opened it this weekend to grab something and got claustrophobic just looking in there. Not much more room, better start eating! What a good problem to have.

 

[BrokenBackJack]

Man that sausage makes my mouth water! :;:cheers