Reuben Brats with Swiss Cheese

[Jamieson22]

Dang, I cannot wait for these to be ready as they smell just like a Reuben on Rye.

25lb pork butt with a single 4.5mm grind and 2.5lb hi-temp Swiss. Used 24oz of water and the seasoning mix and sure cure from Excalibur. Currenting in fridge curing overnight and will vac seal tomorrow or Monday.

[Jamieson22]

Also guessing most of you use tubed casings but if not you should give them a try. Loaded an entire tube of 35/38mm before I started and was able to run entire batch into it. Only needed to cut it so I could reload by 15lb stuffer. Major time saver for sure.

[Bob Stehlik]

Jamieson22 Those look awesome.

[Hosshess]

Jamieson22 looks great! Did you use a premixed seasoning or make your own spice blend?

[Jamieson22]

Hosshess this is a Walton/Excalibur seasoning mix.

[YooperDog]

Jamieson22 nice looking links, I have been thinking about trying that seasoning mix. I used to buy my casings by the hank, I agree the tubed casing makes stuffing a bit nicer.

[Jamieson22]

YooperDog yeah nice to not have to unknot/unravel.

[kyle]

Jamieson22 do they have sauerkraut in them or just the flavor?

[Jamieson22]

kyle just flavor. Thought I remember a past post that said the kraut affected the bind or something. So figured I’d rather serve on top that add to it.

[Dave in AZ]

Sounds good! I’m surprised on the 100% pork though, I would think some beef with the cured/salted/corned aspect would help the reuben corned beef flavor?
How did they taste? What was in the seasoning to give it a reuben flavor?

[Denny O]

Well I’ve got my local favorite Brat bun ready with spicy stone ground mustard and fresh made kraut awaiting!!

“Where’s the Brat!”

[samspade]

Pre-tubed are so easy got to try them if you haven’t
May cost more but golly they are great.

[Dave in AZ]

I tried the pretubed, didnt work great on conical plastic tubes… definitely would work better on straight tubes, stainless. Bought some stainless tubes because of it.

[Jamieson22]

Dave in AZ I still kind of manually thread the casing onto the tubes. Have never been able to just push the handle side of the casing tube onto the horn and just pull them on. I usually put the blunt end of plastic maybe an inch of so onto my tube and slide on much like you would a regular casing.

[Jamieson22]

Dave in AZ said in Reuben Brats with Swiss Cheese:

Sounds good! I’m surprised on the 100% pork though, I would think some beef with the cured/salted/corned aspect would help the reuben corned beef flavor?
How did they taste? What was in the seasoning to give it a reuben flavor?

I guess I am a much bigger fan of $.99/lb pork butt than $3.99/lb chuck
I could def see maybe adding 20% or so cured corned beef to the meat block though and will maybe try that in future.
As for now have not yet tried them as they needed to cure overnight. Plan to grill some up this eve.

And here is seasoning ingredients. Was weird when mixing as it smelt JUST like a reuben on rye.

Ingredients
Salt, Sugar, Sauerkraut Type Flavor (Salt, Natural Flavors, Canola Oil), Natural Thousand Island Dressing Type Flavor (Sugar, Natural Flavor [Contains Canola Oil], Maltodextrin, Nonfat Dry Milk, Tapioca Starch, Spice (Mustard), Modified Food Starch, Autolyzed Yeast Extract, Vinegar Solids, Gum Arabic), Corned Beef Type Flavor (Maltodextrin, Autolyzed Yeast Extract, Natural Flavors, Garlic Powder), Sodium Phosphate (6.3%), Spices (Including Whole Caraway Seed), Garlic Powder. Contains: Milk

[Jamieson22]

samspade said in Reuben Brats with Swiss Cheese:

Pre-tubed are so easy got to try them if you haven’t
May cost more but golly they are great.

I had never really done the math so am curious:

The 30/32 hog casing on Walton’s are $42.80 for 105/lb of product so $.407/lb.
The 30/32 tubed casings are $44.99 and do 105lb for $.428/lb.
So for a 25lb batch it will cost you $.525 more at $11.98.

I tend to use the 32/35mm for $35.99 or the 35/38mm for $36.99 mostly. Those each do 125lbs.
So like $.287/lb for the 32/35mm or $7.20 for a 25lb batch.

[pepperettes]

@dennyo-s Brats are all grown up and moved out.

[Dave in AZ]

Jamieson22 thx for taking the time to write that all out, much appreciated

[cdavis]

Jamieson22 looks great

[gus4416]

Jamieson22 I made the Philly cheese steak today 25 pounds half with high temp Swiss
The only thing I do different from most icube my meat the night before and put the flavor pack in it mig it up and leave in the fridge over night then grind the next day and mix and stuff