Smoked Cheesy Venison Sticks
Ingredients
8 lbs of venison
2 pounds of Kunzler Original Bacon (Salt, Sugar, Sodium Phosphate, Sodium Erythorbate, Sodium Nitrite)
Mix both through a meat grinder
4 jalapeño peppers (without seeds) chopped finely
16 oz of your favorite shredded cheese (in a separate bowl)
2 1/2 cups water
2.5 teaspoons of hi mountain seasoning per POUND = 20.5 teaspoons
2 teaspoons of hi mountain cure per POUND = 20 teaspoons
Preparation
Pour dissolved liquid mixture over top of the meat and mix.
Stuff in collagen casing
Place in the refrigerator from 4 hours to 24 hours (there’s more than enough cure in this to allow for immediate smoking)
Cooking/Smoking:
Allow sticks to reach room temperature
Set Bradley digital to 130 degrees F (54.4C) and allow sticks to dry for 2 hours in the cabinet (without a water bowl)
Bump the temp to 145 to 150 F (62.8C to 65.5C) and begin smoking with cherry bisquettes for 2 hours (with a water bowl)
Bump the temp to 160F (71.1C) and cook for another 2 hours
Bump the temp to 170F (76.7C) to 180F (82.2C)
Insert your thermometer probe into the top 1/3 of a snack stick (not too high and not too low)
Continue cooking until you get a reading of 155F (68.3C).
At that point, pull them and let them sit at room temperature for 1-2 hours (it will continue cooking to 160F).
Cherry
Wood
Cherry Bisquettes provide a mild, sweet, and fruity aroma perfect for smoking poultry, fish, seafood, beef, pork, lamb, water fowl, vegetables, and cheese.
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