First summer sausage

[Silver79]

So I built my 3rd smoker last year, had a decent deer season, and got motivated to smoke some sausage. I built a water powered sausage stuffer, and stuffed about 20 lbs into fibrous casings. Smoked em over charcoal and hickory for 6 hrs and let them bloom after cooling. I wish I'd have started doing this in my 20's. What fun. My 6 year old loves helping with the stuffer. Anyone have a summer sausage recipe they like enough to share? I'm always looking to try new recipes.
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[passedpawn]

Nice work. That's a pretty nifty stuffer you made there.

 

[Silver79]

Nice work. That's a pretty nifty stuffer you made there.

Thank you. I could not see spending the cash on the Dakota water stuffer after seeing how easy it looked to build. I built one for me and one for a buddy at the same time. Going to put the small horn on it next week and try snack sticks.

 

[rnorman57]

Any chance of getting some info on building the water stuffer? Looks like a great idea.

 

[SleepyCreekBrews]

I'm assuming you cold smoke summer sausage, right?

 

[Silver79]

Any chance of getting some info on building the water stuffer? Looks like a great idea.

Sure. I used a 30" piece of 4" pvc and glued an endcap on one end. I then glued a threaded cap on the other. I drilled a hole in the threaded plug big enough for my desired sausage horn size, 1-3/4" and glued that in. I then took a 3" glue cap and cut 2 grooves for o-rings in it. I used a lathe, but can be done other ways. That pa rt makes the piston. For water I drilled and tapped the glue cap for a standard hose bib and then adapted to garden hose threads. Off of that I use a hose splitter to supply and exhaust h2o. If you youtube, water stuffer I've got a video,as do many others.

 

[Silver79]

I'm assuming you cold smoke summer sausage, right?

I started at 100 and bumped it 20 degrees each hour until internal hit 155. Also has cure in it.

 

[Silver79]

That's the video of the stuffer in operation.