I was thinking about getting one for a while. But I didn't want Chinese aluminum junk and professional all stainless steel are pretty expensive. Here are some photos and video of making Polish salami (pork + wild boar meat):








Video here: https://youtu.be/HjWhMr__9NI

Jiri…very interesting. I haven’t tried salami but I make a lot of kielbasa and krakowska using my grandfather’s recipes.

Hope you have been well!

Z

Hi Bob,

I am fine, thank you. How are you? Hope you and Raye are fine too.

This summer, I spent about a month in USA, going with friend's family in RV from Texas to Oregon. Ocean to ocean.

This salami or sausage, don't know what word is better, is characterized by onion flavor. It is composed of two main parts. Binder and that bigger pieces of meat (don't know english word for it).

Binder is made from wild boar meat, frozen onion, spices and salt with pink salt (Cure #1). It is mixed in cutter to fine paste.

Then pork meat is added and mixed and cut in cutter just for few seconds. Then it is stuffed, smoked for two hours, hot water bath until safe temperature is reached in sausage core and dried/smoked again to add more flavor and to seal the sausage (longer shelf life).

We do also meatloaf, wine sausages and different stuff. And drink beer too ;-)

Wine sausage for Christmas:


Some venison+wildboar+pork stuff:





And I bought also this big brother for 915 model I already have:


I love this big canner. We do a lot of canning in:


Jiri

And of course, when in USA, we made about 100 pounds of 4 different types of those for friend's father party in Portland:

Jiri, this is just spectacular! I had not heard of a bowl cutter before. Looks like a great tool for the sausage maker. Your sausage looks incredible.

Jiri, that all looks very tasty! Making sausage is truly a labor of love!

Raye and I have been healthy and following our work plan: hunt, fish, travel,,repeat! Retirement is good! Sounds like you had a great holiday with your friends.
Z

Wow! Terrific looking sausage.

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Raye and I have been healthy and following our work plan: hunt, fish, travel,,repeat! Retirement is good! Sounds like you had a great holiday with your friends.

And please, say Hello to Raye.

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Originally posted by Aspen Hill Adventures:
Wow! Terrific looking sausage.

Thank you.

Last weekend, we made some Czech style sausage with a lot of small pieces of pork back fat in. Next weekend, we have a plan for about 40-50 pounds of canned pate. Will take some pictures.

Jiri

Nice buffalo style chopper. Katana 6? Nothing like high grade equipment to ge the job done.

Katana 12 with variable speed.

Last weekend, we made liver pate. I have sausage stuffer, but I had only straight tubes. So I designed 90 degree one in Solidworks and friend 3D printed it in Formlabs 3D printer. I needed this one for filling jars.



We made over 150 jars of liver pate, it was about 70 pounds or so. We used boiled and baked pork meat and wild boar liver. All was processed in meat grinder with plate with 6mm holes (little under 1/4") and about 1/3 of it was fine minced (don't know right english word for) in bowl cutter and mixed together. So it has smooth texture but with small particles you can enjoy. About half of the pate was enhanced by green peppercorns in salt brine and the other half with minced prunes and walnut.

Jiri

Well. I'm not a fan of liver pate or prunes in anything. But, looks like a hot set-up you have there. Smoked ham is my favorite meat. One local place makes the best. Low water content and smokey.
Have fun...

Last weekend, I made some Czech Wursts. You can see the progress of smoking.





Jiri

Some update here:

Canned pork:


and here with bread and pickles:


But we do also vegetables. Own pickles, pickled bitterroot, peppers and Sauerkraut. My friend found older Robot Coupe slicer, so 50 pounds is few minutes job:


In the weekend, we smoked venison sausages. Here it is raw - just loaded in hog casing:


And also we did horseflesh sausages:

Short video here: https://youtu.be/uCPWjpmi3FA