SOme Venison Summer sausage on a homemade smoker
 

Hello everyone,

I finally gave making venison summer sausage a try. It came out so good i am ready to make some more.

Being as it was my 1st attempt at this i just went with the hi mountain summer sausage kit from Bass pro.

1st i mixed the meat with the seasoning and cure provided, stuffed the fibrous casing that came with the kit and let sit for 24 hours. I then put it in the smoker at 135 degrees for 3 hours and slowly raised the temp over the next few hours after that till internal temp reached 155 degrees.
Then gave a cold water bath and hung them for 24 hours at room temp.

Below is some pics of the sausage and my smoker that i am proud of, lol.

here is my drums welded together. 2 55 gallon drums the bottom 1 cut in half. then welded together. weber grill lid fits right on the top.


a close up of my fire door at bottom of smoker


pics of outside after grinding all the rust and paint off




pics of inside



Charcaol Basket


Paint and primer



Finished pic of smoker


Sausage going in



Finished 11.5 hours later


It was fun, can't wait to smoke some more.

WHat wood or charcol did you use for smoking? The smoker came out really nice, good job.
-Jake

I need a neighbor like you........

i used cowboy lump charcoal with a few fist sized chunks of hickory.

That looks awesome, both the grill and the sausage.

Fantastic Job...

wow. looks great! (the smoker and the meat)

We make it the same way but use pecan instead of hickory. Tastes better when it's venison you hunted hard to get.

We've been making our own sausage for three years now, but I use an old refridgerator for my smoker (your smoker looks much nicer than mine)...we usually do about 300-400 lbs of a combination of summer sausage, bologna, snack sticks, and brats so I need a large capacity smoker to fit all the meat ina nd get it done fairly fast. Nothing like making your own sausage though!

Deer Whisperer,May I reccomend the LEM seasonings also try adding cheese,jalepeno's,horseradish or salsa.Ihave tried all with good results
experimenting is almost the best part

This was My 1st attempt but i will be trying alot of recipes in the furure. I already have a couple recipes i cant wait to try.
I have 1 for venison Pepperoni and 1 for Salami that i am itching to try.

If you're looking for some more recipes here's a pretty good website to check out.
http://lpoli.50webs.com/Sausage%20recipes.htm#BRINED

They have all different types of meats and recipes for sausage/brats/bologna/ you name it!

Morel's on the side????

We have a Hobart supply store near by, they sell to the big processer and the little guy. They have seasoning for the small guy allready package to make 25# for like $4.50 to $5.00 a pack. 3# casings for summer sauage for $.49. I used to buy the kits and found this to be alot cheaper. They also carry a line of equipment for doing your meat processing. Zeak

Nice Smoker Dude
 

DW that smoker is Sweet! Very impressive work!
Bet it works as good as any store bought unit for $300. :cool2:

yeah, it works pretty great. it also gave me and my son a project to do together.

I just made another 48lbs of venison summer sausage. I gave most of the 1st batch away to friends and neighbors. i gave away a few sticks this time but i am freezing the rest to pull out in the summer time with some cheese and crackers.

nice job. I made a couple 4#ish summer sausages on my New Braunfels and they came out great, your smoker looks great though!