Made some elk snack sticks

[punkur67]

A friend and I decided to make some elk and pork belly snack sticks today. Came out great for the first try.

-15#s of ground elk
-10#s of pork belly
-Seasoning and pink salt
-Half of the meat was mixed with high temp hot cheese

Cooked on the trager for about 5 hours

 

[CAL'NDN]

That's some fine looking work and sticks there.

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[SurfNHuntSD]

So.... where do we get samples?

 

[ilovesprig]

Looks great....

 

[NBK]

Looking good man! Love those elk snack sticks!

 

[longbowhunter2]

Well done, food of the gods

 

[punkur67]

We will definitely be making more of them. They came out great and are easy to make

 

[punkur67]

Anyone here have a recommendation for a meat grinder/sausage stuffer combo? We used a kitchenaid attachment to grind and a manual stuffer. Everything worked but we could have worked much faster and more efficiently.

 

[NBK]

Anyone here have a recommendation for a meat grinder/sausage stuffer combo? We used a kitchenaid attachment to grind and a manual stuffer. Everything worked but we could have worked much faster and more efficiently.

I use the Hakka sausage stuffer. It works amazing.

 

[MAG 1]

So.... where do we get samples?

I'm with you, where does the line start ??

 

[punkur67]

I use the Hakka sausage stuffer. It works amazing.

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We used one that looked identical to that. I was looking at power grinders that also stuff if they are worth it

 

[Jacobo2012]

Did you cure them or just smoke to a certain temp and package them up??


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[punkur67]

Did you cure them or just smoke to a certain temp and package them up??


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We put pink cure salt in with the mix and smoked to 165 internal temp. They are not shelf stable so some were frozen.

 

[NBK]

What casing did you use?

 

[punkur67]

This is what I was thinking about getting

Cabela's Carnivore 1/2 HP Commercial-Grade Meat Grinder | Cabela's

www.cabelas.com

 

[NBK]

Order it through the Bass Pro Shop link on the site.

 

[punkur67]

Did some experimenting and found if I put the snack sticks in the dehydrator for about 90 minutes the clolgen wrapper tightened up and dried out more making the sticks much better. Put a little snap in the bites. Also found individual snack stick wrappers so its easier to pull one or two at a time instead of a whole pack

 

[punkur67]

Cooking the last of my elk today in to snack sticks with the new grinder. First batch is on the Traeger now.

 

[NBK]

Bring me some please!!

 

[punkur67]