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Offline Sandman

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Pepperoni snack sticks
« Reply #-1 on: September 22, 2014, 12:41:43 PM »
I got my LEM 10 tray a few weeks ago but have only had time to run one batch of jerky. Today I stuffed 10# of pepperoni snack sticks  and put into the dehydrator. It only took 5 of the trays. More pics to come.


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Re: Pepperoni snack sticks
« on: September 22, 2014, 12:55:24 PM »
Looks great, so far.

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Re: Pepperoni snack sticks
« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2014, 01:20:18 PM »
Looking forward to the final results.
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« Reply #2 on: September 22, 2014, 02:13:00 PM »
Looking forward to the final results.
Me too.. I'm thinking of buying the LEM 10 tray.
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Re: Pepperoni snack sticks
« Reply #3 on: September 22, 2014, 03:08:17 PM »
Heck - those are going to be great!!!  Love that kind of stuff!  Looking forward to pics of the final product.
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Re: Pepperoni snack sticks
« Reply #4 on: September 22, 2014, 04:08:52 PM »
Looks great so far, nicely done.  ;)
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Re: Pepperoni snack sticks
« Reply #5 on: September 22, 2014, 05:40:31 PM »
Watching this one as well. 

The LEM is a pretty decent unit, especially for the sale price.  Mine ran pretty even temp wise on the last set of sticks I did (I just screwed the measurements up and ended up with Mace sticks instead of snack sticks - all I can taste is the mace).  But the LEM worked flawlessly.

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Re: Pepperoni snack sticks
« Reply #6 on: September 22, 2014, 06:50:57 PM »
Looking good,watching.....
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Re: Pepperoni snack sticks
« Reply #7 on: September 22, 2014, 07:28:12 PM »
can't wait. Need to know how you put the sticks together and how long you let them go
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Re: Pepperoni snack sticks
« Reply #8 on: September 22, 2014, 09:20:32 PM »
They are done, took 7 hours. I thought I had the temp set @ 155f but was 145f for the first 4 hours. I put them in the fridge for an over night chill wrapped in newspaper because I don't have a big paper bag. They taste awesome. I will do this one again. Next I would like to try some fruit leather or "fruit roll ups". If anyone has tried these please make a post. Thanks.



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Re: Pepperoni snack sticks
« Reply #9 on: September 22, 2014, 09:22:54 PM »
Looks great, I will gladly volunteer for quality control tester duty.....

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Re: Pepperoni snack sticks
« Reply #10 on: September 22, 2014, 09:26:38 PM »
Nice job. Did you use a commercial mix or is this your own recipe?

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Re: Pepperoni snack sticks
« Reply #11 on: September 22, 2014, 09:29:27 PM »
It was the recipe I used for my dry cure pepperoni.  It is the homemade traditional pepperoni recipe off the UMAI site but I used anise seed instead. Also I used cure #1 for this recipe.

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Re: Pepperoni snack sticks
« Reply #12 on: September 22, 2014, 10:41:55 PM »
Those are some mighty fine looking pepperoni sticks!!!!

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« Reply #13 on: September 22, 2014, 11:43:51 PM »
Those are some mighty fine looking pepperoni sticks!!!!
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