Recent content by NDKoze

Yes, my family is having our annual sausage making weekend this weekend and one of the things we are going to try/experiment with is making Sauerkraut Sausage. I bought a ring of Sauerkraut sausage at a small town German meat market this Fall and it was delicious. So, we're going to see if we...

Hi to all of my old friends as well as to the newer folks that I haven't interacted with! It has been a few years since I have been really active here, but I have been lurking and posting occasionally while not spending as much time on this forum as I would have like to. But, I have more...

For you folks that regularly use your Sous Vide circulators, do you just leave water in your sous vide container all the time? What about the circulator itself? I was just wondering if those of you that use your units so frequently just leave them running all the time and refill the water as it...

This is more of an open-ended question to get some feedback from the group and hopefully come up with a recommendation for new users. Kari's post in the The Meater (wireless meat thermometers) - Kickstarter project thread revealed some interesting results where she had five probes in a Boston...

For better visibility to a more accurate category, this topic has been moved to Gadgets and Gizmos. https://www.smokinitforums.com/index.php?topic=7303.0

Some of you may have heard me talk about protein extraction and how important it is. The guys at Walton's Inc, just posted a new thread about Protein Extraction along with a YouTube video that is well worth the time to watch for all sausage makers...

I received a new Coupon Code yesterday: May your holidays be filled with joy and your belly full of delicious, precisely cooked meals. As a thank you, for the next two days (expires on 12/19 at 11:59pm PST) enjoy an extra $10 off on top of our holiday sale when you copy & paste your unique...

I have made hundreds of pounds of sausage over the years. But, have always left the Ring Bologna to my late uncle who was a butcher. Well, now that he is gone I figured it was time to start trying to make my own. Well, kind of. ;) I wish that I had thought to get his ring bologna recipe, but...

Since the initial released of the Sausage Rack 1000 (SR-1000) in October 2014, the SR-1000 has hung several hundred pounds of snack sticks, fry sausage, and summer sausage. Here is a post from the initial release: 50lbs of Snack Stix on the docket for this weekend Well, our R&D department has...

First, I am sorry for the lengthy post, but I started typing and couldn't stop. Can you tell that I am somewhat passionate about this stuff? ;) For 10+ years I have pretty much been making all of my snack sticks at my parent's house with equipment that has been purchased together with my Dad...

Well, the Fall 2016 Snack-Stick-A-Palooza is underway. We stuffed 3 - 28-pound batches of sticks last night, hung them, and then started the first batch this morning at 7:30. They are pretty close to coming off but have probably about 30-60 minutes to go. We stuffed two batches of Original...

My 10+ year-old Foodsaver Vacuum Sealer finally seems like it might be getting ready to give up the ghost. It is taking a lot longer to seal and sometimes just running and running and not sealing unless I click the seal button. So, I started researching what was available and was pretty much...

Does anyone have a good place to purchase a Bernzomatic TS8000 to be used with the Searzall Torch Attachment? I had this in my Amazon Wish List for a long time, but didn't purchase because the prices ranged from $70-$150 which was just ridiculous. I now see that it is down to #39.97 which...

I have been wanting to get one of these ever since I got my can koozies...

I used to have this in my favorites list on Amazon and I think it was like $67 or something like that. But, I just noticed that it is now showing as $264.99 on Amazon. Unless production is just too low to keep up demand, there has to be a better place to purchase. Otherwise, I'll just wait and...