Solved How to load your snack sticks to MB40

[wdaly]

Kavon Finally getting around to sending you the picture. I’ve done them both ways, hung on rods and laid flat on racks.

[wdaly]

[calldoctoday]

wdaly Don’t throw in the towel though, they look great.

[Kavon]

wdaly I am still pondering hanging or cut to length. I’m leaning towards cut, alot easier in my book. I’m wondering when that s**t towel will be available. Thats what Jonathon called it for short. Moisture wicking towel for water pan.

[wdaly]

Kavon My towel helped I think but I don’t have a way to measure humidity. I have been researching some meters and may get one soon. One advantage to cutting and using racks, is there aren’t all the kinks. Probably just boils down to preference.

[samspade]

I drilled the top of my MB and put 6 eye bolts. I cut 3 wooden dowels that slip in between the eyebolts and can hold about 15 lbs of snack sticks.

[salmonmaster]

samspade good idea.

[calldoctoday]

Kavon I don’t have that model smoker, I cannot afford it any more, but to hang the sausages on the one I do have now, I initially wanted some stainless s hooks of the right size to just attach to the normal rack cross bars, but I could not find any around here of the right size like what I had a few of. Plus what I could find had gotten ridiculously expensive. So, I took a bunch of old #12 Copper wire I had hanging around down in the garage, old stuff I had taken out of some place, & bent a lot of s hooks from it. I mean a lot & the perfect size too. Plus the price was right & it works perfectly right with the racks in place. On the one I had a long time ago, my lost Pitts & Spitts Baby, the model we designed together had the metal dowels in place on the vertical section to adjust & move around when ever you were doing sausage or hanging birds.

[chippewa]

Kavon
This is how I do my sticks. I don’t fill my sticks super full and I pinch where I am bending the sticks. I rotate my racks top to bottom and flip 180* every hour and I have fairly consistent temps and no burning this way. I added extra l-channel supports in my MB-40 and bought extra racks so I can do 5 racks at a time and not put anything on the bottom where the water pan goes.

[rjh2]

chippewa How many pounds can you do at a time in the MB40?

[Kavon]

rjh2 I did 12.5 lbs. I hung a batch 12.5 lbs and I cut to lengths on racks 12.5lbs. I made a 25 lb batch of willies snack stick seasoning. So my first time and smoker was full MB 40

[rjh2]

Kavon thanks. Good to know. I always do 5 lb batches and my MB1040 works great for that. Every once in a while I think I should do bigger batches though…

[chippewa]

rjh2 said in How to load your snack sticks to MB40:

chippewa How many pounds can you do at a time in the MB40?

My memory is horrible! But I believe that was 15#. I usually keep really detailed notes but I haven’t since I got the extra racks.