My wife and I moved here about 3 1/2 years ago to retire. Yes we love it, health insurance $80 per month and it covers 100%. Lots of other benefits, too. We live in a small fishing village about mid coast on the west coast of Ecuador, Crucita.
I made breakfast sausage for us to eat. We were asked to donate something to an auction for a local charity, so we donated 2 kilos of our sausage. It sold at auction for $29 per kilo.
That was 2 years ago. We now make about 300 lbs per month and sell it all in about a 100 square mile area. We finally put up a web site, Casa de Shilchicha ( House of Sausage). We now have requests from all of the west coast and several large cities to buy it. I am supplying 2 wholesale outlets. Currently, we are delivering to 4 cities monthly. We will supply the rest of the country, but there is no dry ice here, so I will have to get a dry ice machine from the US.
I read the blog every day, and I always learn something useful. I would love to do some business with you guys. I tried to order about 1 1/2 years ago, but I was told the computers in Wichita thought that I was a scam operator and that my order was rejected. That was after my debit card was run, the money sent ,but that my ship to address did not match my billing address. No amount of explaining about having to use friends to mule to us because of a 60% tax on direct shipping products did not even defrost the lady’s cold heart.
I would still like to do business with you guys, if you are willing.

Thanks, keep up the good work.

PS, anybody interested in buying a growing business in Ecuador? I am retired= haha.

Moved to Ecuador from Dallas 3 years ago. Only hunted them once down around Burnett. We took a 400 lb sow and a 140 lb buck into the locker in Llano.6 of us split it. I ended up with 22 lbs of summer sausage. It was the best I have ever had. Wish I knew how they did made it. Processed the meat, made the sausage and delivered to us in 2 1/2 days. My 2 sons were down for 2 weeks and the sausage was gone before they left. Wish I had the recipe.
You are right about the wild hogs. Good if you have a place to hunt. Good friend owns Precision Sports in Carrolton. If you get by there, tell Larry I send my regards to him and his dad, if he is still kicking.

Parksider Thanks John,
Could not locate the d**n thing to save my life last night, but that is the chart.
TonyS

I use a 13mm, equi. 1/2" tube with 26mm collagen for hotdogs. I think Walton’s has a handy chart toward the bottom of individual collagen spec pages and as I recall they show either a 12mm or 13mm. Either works fine.

Yep, bowl is for sawdust. Pellets don;t exist here. You all can eat your heart out, though. Charcoal is lump, fist sized, and costs $7.00 for a 50 # bag.
I have an Amaz=N- Smoke tray on my wish list for the next returning expat.
My Thermoworks Smoke should be here at the end of this week so I can play with the heat from top to bottom.

Anybody have any ideas on a vortex? add on to help with heat distribution?

Thanks guys

Ecuadorean roaster that I found in a restaurant that was closing. All Stainless Steel with propane burner, 24 sausage hooks available to use in 2 different positions. Have a Thermoworks Smoke coming to use with it. I don’t know the capacity, but I did see it roasting 24 chickens.
Can’t wait to use.

TonyinEcuador

Hi Jonathon,
It will be a couple of months, I think before I am ready to order again. I need to take inventory on all my seasonings. I am using mostly Excaliber seasonings now, except for a few that are old recipes that I can get spices for.
We make 5 flavors of breakfast sausages, in both mild and hot, Italian, chorizo,both mild and hot, all beef franks, sugar cured bacon,ham, corned beef and pastrami.
I am using hog casings on some larger sausages, but they are only available per kilo ($22) that are whatever sizes came out and are mixed, so hard to be consistent.Using collagen, 26mm for everything else. It is all that is available, so works for franks,Italian, chorizo and breakfast links (short and fat).
Top of my wish list is a Weston pro butcher#32, and a linker. I couldalso, wish for a larger stuffer, except my Weston 7# handles almost all of my casing because very few orders, together exceed the capacity because of the variety. And a linker would also be great.
I am dealing with a man here for a " roaster" that is all stainless, about 4 feet in diameter an about 4 feet tall. It has a 6" propane burner in the center and 20 stainless rings at the 9around the inside,concentric with about 40 SS meat hooks. It only needs a 3" smoke stack with a damper, and some support rods for a SS bowl for sawdust. Then, I will need a couple of digital thermometers and I will have a smoker. Propane is perfect here. They are 50 # tanks, and cost $2.50 each to exchange. Using my XL GreenEgg for now, but only small amounts.

Yes 60% is a lot. That is why wee try to mule everything in.
Anybody coming down that can bring me the grinder?

More later, I am sure.
Thanks a million.

My wife and I moved here about 3 1/2 years ago to retire. Yes we love it, health insurance $80 per month and it covers 100%. Lots of other benefits, too. We live in a small fishing village about mid coast on the west coast of Ecuador, Crucita.
I made breakfast sausage for us to eat. We were asked to donate something to an auction for a local charity, so we donated 2 kilos of our sausage. It sold at auction for $29 per kilo.
That was 2 years ago. We now make about 300 lbs per month and sell it all in about a 100 square mile area. We finally put up a web site, Casa de Shilchicha ( House of Sausage). We now have requests from all of the west coast and several large cities to buy it. I am supplying 2 wholesale outlets. Currently, we are delivering to 4 cities monthly. We will supply the rest of the country, but there is no dry ice here, so I will have to get a dry ice machine from the US.
I read the blog every day, and I always learn something useful. I would love to do some business with you guys. I tried to order about 1 1/2 years ago, but I was told the computers in Wichita thought that I was a scam operator and that my order was rejected. That was after my debit card was run, the money sent ,but that my ship to address did not match my billing address. No amount of explaining about having to use friends to mule to us because of a 60% tax on direct shipping products did not even defrost the lady’s cold heart.
I would still like to do business with you guys, if you are willing.

Thanks, keep up the good work.

PS, anybody interested in buying a growing business in Ecuador? I am retired= haha.