Smoked Javelina Mexican Red Pepper Sausage 2/16/18

Yesterday we stuffed seven LEM 1 ½”X12” Fibrous Casings for today’s smoking. We ran out of casings so we improvised; Javelina Luncheon Loaf was an easy solution.

I don’t like having an empty rack when running the smoker. The easy solution was my wife bought a 6 ½ pound pork shoulder roast at the grocers.

We used yellow mustard with no spices on the pork roast to create a layer that will lock in the moisture. After pressing the remaining sausage mix into the glass bread loaf pans we put a layer of mustard over the top too.

At 4:54 pm we started the smoker set at 150*F with 2 trays of maple wood chips on top of about 2 trays of left over chips from yesterday’s smoking with the vent on top open.

At 5:30 pm I put another tray of maple chips in because the leftover chips had already turned to ash.

At 6:20 pm I put another tray of maple chips and raised the temperature to 170*F. The roast was not getting enough heat to seal the mustard glaze.

At 8:00 pm I raised the temperature to 180*F. At 8:30 I went to 190*F.

It looked like the sausage and luncheon loaves were tolerating the increased temperature so at 10:30 I raised it to 200*F

At 11:12 pm I pulled the sausage and increased the temperature to 225*F. The luncheon loaves and roast need the extra temp to glaze the mustard.

At 12:18 am I pulled the loaves and at 1:15 I pulled the pork roast. Total smoking time is 8 hours 21 minutes. There is no burned "bark" layer because I controlled the temperature. The pork meat is cooked well done, tender, smoke infused and juicy. The internal temperature is 187*F.

In northern Arizona the Javelina’s like to hang out in huge forests of cat claw brushes also known as Wait-A-Minute bushes. The bushes have 2 hooked thorns attached at 90* about every inch with the next set rotated 120*. The claws do not pull off very easily like roses or black berries. The hogs can hear anything coming and can easily tell the sound of your clothing being shredded.

This is a very angry sow that is just about to charge and tried to cut me with her razor sharp teeth. I wear gators to protect me from the cat claw, but they can also save you from Javelina attacks.