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Cured Meats & Food Preservation => Cured meats & Food Preservation => Dehydrating => Topic started by: Sandman on September 22, 2014, 12:41:43 PM

Title: Pepperoni snack sticks
Post by: Sandman 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.

(http://i1178.photobucket.com/albums/x372/Bradsanders99/IMAG0860_zps63288cfc.jpg) (http://s1178.photobucket.com/user/Bradsanders99/media/IMAG0860_zps63288cfc.jpg.html)

Title: Re: Pepperoni snack sticks
Post by: ACW3 on September 22, 2014, 12:55:24 PM

Looks great, so far.

Art

Title: Re: Pepperoni snack sticks
Post by: sliding_billy on September 22, 2014, 01:20:18 PM

Looking forward to the final results.

Title: Re: Pepperoni snack sticks
Post by: Scallywag on September 22, 2014, 02:13:00 PM

Quote from: sliding_billy on September 22, 2014, 01:20:18 PM

Looking forward to the final results.

Me too.. I'm thinking of buying the LEM 10 tray.

Title: Re: Pepperoni snack sticks
Post by: Smokerjunky 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.

Title: Re: Pepperoni snack sticks
Post by: Las Vegan Cajun on September 22, 2014, 04:08:52 PM

Looks great so far, nicely done.  ;)

Title: Re: Pepperoni snack sticks
Post by: DWard51 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.

Title: Re: Pepperoni snack sticks
Post by: spuds on September 22, 2014, 06:50:57 PM

Looking good,watching.....

Title: Re: Pepperoni snack sticks
Post by: RAD 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

Title: Re: Pepperoni snack sticks
Post by: Sandman 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.

(http://i1178.photobucket.com/albums/x372/Bradsanders99/IMAG0861_zpsfbdc0035.jpg) (http://s1178.photobucket.com/user/Bradsanders99/media/IMAG0861_zpsfbdc0035.jpg.html)(http://i1178.photobucket.com/albums/x372/Bradsanders99/IMAG0862_zps2d63cf58.jpg) (http://s1178.photobucket.com/user/Bradsanders99/media/IMAG0862_zps2d63cf58.jpg.html)

Title: Re: Pepperoni snack sticks
Post by: Saber 4 on September 22, 2014, 09:22:54 PM

Looks great, I will gladly volunteer for quality control tester duty.....

Title: Re: Pepperoni snack sticks
Post by: txpops on September 22, 2014, 09:26:38 PM

Nice job. Did you use a commercial mix or is this your own recipe?

Title: Re: Pepperoni snack sticks
Post by: Sandman 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.

Title: Re: Pepperoni snack sticks
Post by: DWard51 on September 22, 2014, 10:41:55 PM

Those are some mighty fine looking pepperoni sticks!!!!

Title: Re: Pepperoni snack sticks
Post by: spuds on September 22, 2014, 11:43:51 PM

Quote from: DWard51 on September 22, 2014, 10:41:55 PM

Those are some mighty fine looking pepperoni sticks!!!!

SUPERB!!

Title: Re: Pepperoni snack sticks
Post by: spuds on September 22, 2014, 11:53:33 PM

Quote from: Sandman on September 22, 2014, 09:20:32 PM

. Next I would like to try some fruit leather or "fruit roll ups". If anyone has tried these please make a post. Thanks.

Got you covered  ;)

http://www.letstalkbbq.com/index.php?topic=11228.msg152540#msg152540