Made some elk snack sticks

[punkur67]

Bring me some please!!

Tell Joel to get my action in the mail so I have an excuse to come see you. Haha

 

[punkur67]

 

[NBK]

What temp did you run the Traeger?

 

[punkur67]

What temp did you run the Traeger?

I ran at 185 till I got internal temp of 160 this time. I ended up with less wrinkling on the casing than when I stepped the temp up to 250 last time

 

[JakeSCH]

Looks good! what fat % are you using?

*EDIT* looks like you did 40% pork belly. I use the costco pork belly in all my ground meat, but I only did like 18% in my first batch of sausage. Definitely a little dryer than typical.

 

[JakeSCH]

Have you thought about adding canned chili's and / or cheese to the sticks? I picked up some of the high temp cheese for my brats and definitely recommend it. I am thinking about adding can diced jalepinos and habanero cheese to a batch...mainly so I have my own without the kids steeling it. LOL

 

[NBK]

I like using fresh finely chopped jalapeno and habanero.

 

[JakeSCH]

I like using fresh finely chopped jalapeno and habanero.

That makes sense! I was thinking it would be crunchy but duh once you cook it then it wouldn't. Lol

 

[punkur67]

Have you thought about adding canned chili's and / or cheese to the sticks? I picked up some of the high temp cheese for my brats and definitely recommend it. I am thinking about adding can diced jalepinos and habanero cheese to a batch...mainly so I have my own without the kids steeling it. LOL

I did hi temp spicy jack cheese. I will do some sort of peppers in the future