Low temp smoke ?

[UDave]

Making summer sausage for the first time and having a blast, just retired !
Question: my casings are stuffed and ready for the smoker. Most info I’ve read/watched says to start out low and slow 125deg and eventually up to 175deg. My question is how do you get your wood chips to smoke at that low of heat ?
Thanks - Uncle Dave

[Joe Hell]

UDave At those temps you won’t get much if any smoke but you can use a product called the A-Maze-N Tube to cold smoke at lower temperatures. This also works well for cold smoked cheese!

[AdamCA]

UDave Dave, you don’t want smoke for the first hour or two. Once you bump your temp upto 140-155 the chips will start smoking.

[UDave]

Thanks for the great info guys - I started at 12:30 and can’t seem to get it below 135deg but I’m guessing that’s ok. I’m using a Smoke Hollow gas smoker for the first time. Everything seems to be going great so far. I plan on cranking it up to 160deg at about 2:30.
Thanks again for the replies !
Uncle Dave

[denny66]

Joe Hell said in Low temp smoke ?:

UDave At those temps you won’t get much if any smoke but you can use a product called the A-Maze-N Tube to cold smoke at lower temperatures. This also works well for cold smoked cheese!

I don’t own a fancy smoker just a cheaper electric model. Where is the best spot in the smoker to place an a maze-n-tube smoker for best results.

[glen]

denny66 The smoke tube needs airflow but not too much. The trick is to keep it from flaming up. I put it in the air intake of my egg but I have to adjust the flow.

[PapaSop]

UDave
I also have a gas smoker. I Just lay the pellet tube on the lowest rack, usually to one side. Never had a flare up until going over the 200 deg. mark.
Congrats on the retirement. Send some pics when your done.

[UDave]

AdamCA
Yes Sir ! when I hit about 150deg it started smoking. It took a total of about 5.5 hrs when internal hit 160deg then gave it an ice bath. Tried it today and I was very impressed with the flavor. It took a 12 pack of heffe weiss with my buddies to wipe out a half stick! Now on to snack sticks - thanks for the help !
Uncle Dave
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