the wife and i are making venison summer sausage today

[Chad5005]

got things ready this morning and let some venison thaw,think we'll do regular,chedder cheese and jalapeno,pepper jack cheese and jalapeno,and mozzarella and jalapeno.get it all mixed and in cases tonight so we can smoke it tomorrow,might even make a little venison pan sausage while were at it

[CastingFool]

I was making venison breakfast sausage, mixing venison with ground pork. The ground pork was $5/lb. Then I ran out of ground venison, so my sausage was basically just ground pork. Then one day, I found Bob Evans natural pork sausage, for $3/lb on sale. Haven't made my own since then. Less $, less work, and it does taste good.

[Chad5005]

that sausage might be good but we love venison sausage,we kill and eat 5 or 6 deer a year so we always have good sausage

[snowwolfe]

I was making venison breakfast sausage, mixing venison with ground pork. The ground pork was $5/lb. Then I ran out of ground venison, so my sausage was basically just ground pork. Then one day, I found Bob Evans natural pork sausage, for $3/lb on sale. Haven't made my own since then. Less $, less work, and it does taste good.

Buy pork butts when they go on sale for about $.99 a pound. Perfect ratio of lean to fat 70/30.

[bikerbeans]

Is it legal to make summer sausage during the winter?

BB

[Chad5005]

yea its 70 plus here to so its spring sausage lol

[CastingFool]

Thanks Snowwolfe, I'll have to remember that.

[snowwolfe]

Thanks Snowwolfe, I'll have to remember that.

There is only one small bone inside the butt/shoulder. They also make a decent pork steak cut about 1 inch thick and grilled.

[Chad5005]

. Well we 12-1 1/2 pound summer sausage out of our mix today,now let them sit till 4 tomorrow and start smoking

[koger]

The wife and I both hunt here in KY, I took 4 deer this year and she took 2, for a total of 6. We ground most of it, combined part of it with 20% ground pork shoulder, for burgers and Salisbury steak. I make 2-3 batches a year, I love it for a midday snack. We use deer burger instead of beef, actually prefer it instead we have gotten so used to eating it the last 30 years.

[M-Tecs]

Unless you are cold smoking standard cheese melts out. High Temp cheese works much better.

[Chad5005]

we use ground venison for everything except queso,venison makes it taste weird,next we'll make hot smoked sausage and breakfast sausage,then about 10 pounds of venison hickory jerky

[Lloyd Smale]

yup theres a store that has a meat sale once a year and sells them for 99s. Had that sale last week and I bought 200lbs of it. I use it for breakfast sauage, Italian, bratts and summer sausage. Even wack off a few leaner chunks for roasts and pulled pork. My summer sauage is about gone. I only made a 100 lbs this year and probably gave away 2/3s of it. Going to have to go back to a 150 lbs next year. I like mine with high temp pepper jack cheese. That's about the biggest cost in making it. that cheese aint cheap!

Buy pork butts when they go on sale for about $.99 a pound. Perfect ratio of lean to fat 70/30.

[Chad5005]

Unless you are cold smoking standard cheese melts out. High Temp cheese works much better.

we use high temp cheese,we get ours from Walton's. we did pepper jack and chedder lastnight,we smoke at 4 temps with the last one being 175 to get a internal temp of 160

[Chad5005]

The wife and I both hunt here in KY, I took 4 deer this year and she took 2, for a total of 6. We ground most of it, combined part of it with 20% ground pork shoulder, for burgers and Salisbury steak. I make 2-3 batches a year, I love it for a midday snack. We use deer burger instead of beef, actually prefer it instead we have gotten so used to eating it the last 30 years.

we use our burger straight,we add 20% ground beef to our summer sausage,20% boston butt to our regular smoked sausage,andouille and breakfast sausage

[Chad5005]

finished product ready to be vacuum sealed

[Lloyd Smale]

this is the place ive used for 15 years for all my sausage making stuff https://www.askthemeatcutter.com/

[bikerbeans]

If any of you sausage makers need independent quality control performed on your finished product let me know.

BB

[Chad5005]

Thanks Lloyd we'll check them out

[Chad5005]

bikerbeans,if youre ever in ga stop by we'll have some sausage and shine