Hey there to all you fellow cookers! It's that time of year again and hubby has been spending his days this past week out in the woods with his gun and covered in deer pee! I don't know why that seems so fun for them but hey...I enjoy the jerky and trail bologna as much as the next girl. However...I have ran into a problem! I have all the ingredients to make the bologna and have put the 36# of meat I had into 12 3# skins. I put 4 "tubes" into the oven and cooked them for 2 hrs on 225 but they still didn't seem done. Then this morning I put them in for another 2 hrs being sure they reached 156 degrees and they STILL don't feel done.
They are extremely pink in the center(Which I know they are pose to be) and very moist...to the point that it is crumbling when I cut into it. Anyone know why it would be doing this? I don't want to waste the other 8 tubes if I am not cooking them right. We put 30# of deer and mixed it with 6# of lean hamburger then put all the dry spices...2 bottles of liquid smoke and it would be a total of 2.5 cups of water. Mixed it all and let it sit for a few hours...stuffed the skins then let them sit in frige for 2 days. Any help would be great.
Also if anyone has any recipes for ground deer burger jerky I would love to hear some! We have a jerky gun and ran out of the pre packaged spice but would like to come up with our own.
Thanks in advance!!!
~Roo
They are extremely pink in the center(Which I know they are pose to be) and very moist...to the point that it is crumbling when I cut into it. Anyone know why it would be doing this? I don't want to waste the other 8 tubes if I am not cooking them right. We put 30# of deer and mixed it with 6# of lean hamburger then put all the dry spices...2 bottles of liquid smoke and it would be a total of 2.5 cups of water. Mixed it all and let it sit for a few hours...stuffed the skins then let them sit in frige for 2 days. Any help would be great.
Also if anyone has any recipes for ground deer burger jerky I would love to hear some! We have a jerky gun and ran out of the pre packaged spice but would like to come up with our own.
Thanks in advance!!!
~Roo