re: Homemade Smoked Deer Sausage

I started making my own sausage this year. Wife found the pork butts in sale for .99 c a lb. I built my smoker out of our old stainless dishwasher. It holds 40 lbs of sausage. I ended up at 1.45 lb on the first batch.. I use a hot plate and a smoke cage for smoking. Add pellets and light it on one end it will smoke for 4 hours.

What I learned. Cube and season meat before grinding. I prefer a single grind its less mushy. Stuffing with the grinder sucks and makes the sausage look like hot dog wieners. So I bought a 5 lb lem stuffer. Sausage is easy to make and not worth paying someone 3.50 a lb plus the meat.

I'm gonna try to cold smoke a batch on the next cold dry day we get.