How do you do this?

I have a SM008 smoker and when I make beef sticks, I lay them on the rack (the small screen type) so they are not touching each other, I also turn them and switch racks around about half way through. Might not be the best way but it orks for me.

had the same problem, so i started making them shorter. make better gifts so you dont give as much away. small sausages i lay on the racks.

I can fit 20- 24# of summer sausage in my 008. I make 2 1/2" dia. x 10" sticks.

I put the rack slides in the highest position and shorten the loops as small as posibble to still fit over the 1/2" dowls.

If I goof and make the sticks more like 11"-12" I will prop the dowls up as much as possible with whatever is available (like another dowl layed the length of the rack slide.)

This keeps them high enough off the woodbox and they are cooked pretty evenly.

Like spaerib said, the smaller sticks make better gifts. People tend to eat them till they are gone rather than 1/4- 1/2 a stick getting shoved to the back of the frige and waisting away.

As for the jerky, I have only done 5# batches to date. So hanging hasnt been a problem yet.

Good luck!

I stuff mine into, either 19 or 22 mm casings. so i normally have a long rope of them.


How bout that summer sausage recipe, commercial or homemade?

My recipe is homemade.

You can find some good recipes on Eldon's sausage page

Or his book Sausage and Jerky Handbook is available at my place.