re: Homemade Smoked Deer Sausage

I have a cold smoke attachment for my master built smoker and it works very well for smoking damn near anything. It works very well with cheese and fish. What I do for my smoked sausage is let it sit in the cold smoke for a few hours then being the temp up in the main smoker to get it fully cooked. Sometimes I don’t even bother to cook it in the smoker I just make the sausage, cold smoke it for 4-5 hours then package and freeze. I will cook the sausage when I use it so making it fully cooked from the start is a waste of time. Now anytime I give sausage away I always make sure to cook it to a minimum of 145F internally. This ensures that whomever I am giving the sausage doesn’t eat basically raw pork. The cold smoker attachment I have is in the link below.
Masterbuilt slow smoker