No problem! Always good to get a problem worked out!

Nice setup! I’ve collected a fair amount of the same gear for a similar chamber. I can’t wait to get started!

@bhouin1086 Even with the skin I don’t think you will be much beyond 75%, which is no problem, you don’t need to be. As for the Encapsulated Citric Acid if I were you I would still use it. I shouldn’t even have brought it up but I did a lot of experimenting with low fat (all breast) chicken sausage so that is where I was coming from but you wont have that problem so you should be good!

@deplorablenc1 We’d love to see some pics of your curing chamber set up! Maybe in the Bragging Board section?!

@scottwaltner I agree, I think that is going to be what your issue was! As always thanks for your help @lamurscrappy!

@ed_orum As far as I am aware there is no way to make a lower salt dry cured sausage, it plays too important a role in the initial stages. That being said I am going to talk to someone next week and I will see if they have any ideas on how, or if this would be possible!

Just spitballing here but dipping it in an antimicrobial might help and make sure your meat is clean and your processing area is pristine.

Weekly Blog Post - Cured Sausage Advanced Classes & Seasoning and Additives

Find out what's going on at Walton's and Meatgistics this week. We will have a loose schedule for soon to be released videos, what we are working on long-term and maybe a few quick tips and tricks that are on our mind!

What Videos are being released soon?

Meat Processing Equipment 203: Meat Mixers - We go over how to breakdown, clean and reassemble the Weston #20 and #44 lb meat mixers as well as how the paddle style mixer helps you achieve protein extraction.

Seasoning & Additives 202: High Temp Cheese - A product review of High Temp Cheese as well as some information on when to use what flavor of cheese. In this video, we show the difference in using regular or high temp cheese in your sausage.

What Projects are we looking ahead at?

Seasoning & Additives The Science of Cure - Curing of meat has been around for 1,000s of years but it is only in the last hundred or so that we started to really understand it. We will go over what the functions of sure cure are, how they perform those functions and what the dangers and misconceptions of cured meat are.

What’s on our Mind?

Meatgistics continues to grow in membership and reach, which is great but we also have been pretty relaxed with guidelines and rules on the site. We don’t want to restrict people too much but we will be coming up with a list of Best Practices on Meatgistics. Two important ones will be, no links to external sites (specifically those of our competitors) and treating everyone with respect. I am sure you can understand why we don’t want people linking to external sites and if we find it we will just the link and possibly the post. The second one has not been an issue for us yet, but as we grow we know has the potential to cause problems. A full list of these best practices will be posted at the bottom of the site for everyone to review once they have been completed.

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@Tim-Salois Yes, brining and pickling are used in the same way even though they do not mean the same thing even though they have slightly different actual definitions.

@scottwaltner i personally think we found your problem. After the ice bath you need to hang them at room temp for at least an hour. That helps to bloom the product and help set the casing as well. I think thats your issue.