I am doing summer sausage in my SM066. I put it in around 11:00 am yesterday. I went through the 130 degree drying process with the smoker door cracked open, then put in the wood and closed the door. Bumped the smoker temp to 140 degrees for an hour, then 150 degrees for an hour, finally hit 170 degrees for 2 hours. The sausage was at 145 degrees. I let it go another 2 hours at 170 degrees and the sausage was at 150 degrees. 2 hours later and it was at 153 degrees. 1 more hour and it was 151. Somewhere around midnight I bumped the smoker temp up to 180 degrees. 2 hours later the sausage was at 155 degrees. I bumped the smoker to 190 degrees and an hour later the sausage was at 157 degrees. I could go on, but I finally got the sausage to hit 160 degrees at around 5:00 am. The smoker temp was 210 degrees. Some of the sausage had started to render the fat. What the heck am I doing wrong, or missing?
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