Smokehouse Run Record
Keep every run of the smoker on one page so a good result can be repeated, a poor one explained, and any batch matched to the run that smoked it.
Food production and artisan makers · FP-26
A free printable curing batch record sheet — one batch of sausage, bacon, ham or salami with supplier lots, weights in and out, cure dates and where it went.
One page. Choose your paper size — both versions are laid out identically, so neither one gets shrunk to fit.
Print it and write on it
Fill it in type and save
The fillable versions have real form fields — open them in any PDF reader, type into them and save. Printing help.
Lead any pack back to the meat, the supplier and the cure it came from, and show the batch was made the way your own recipe sets.
Small butchers, charcuterie makers and farm shops making sausage and cured meat for sale.
One page, top to bottom:
Printed under the title: One batch of sausage, bacon, ham or salami from raw meat to packed product — every ingredient with its supplier and lot, the weights in and out, the cure's start and end as your own process sets them, and where the batch went.
Write-on lines: Product · Batch no. · Date started · Made by
Table, 6 rows: Ingredient / casing / cure · Supplier · Supplier lot / kill no. · Qty used · Checked
Write-on lines: Raw meat weight in · Cure mix used (yours) · Cure end / hang start · Target loss (yours) · Finished weight · Loss achieved · Packed as · Lot code on pack
Table, 4 rows: Date · Customer / outlet / own counter · Qty · Left · Notes
Because those are your recipe, and the amount of cure that may be used is set by the rules where you trade. The sheet has blanks for what you used and how long it took, labelled as yours, so the record shows your process was followed.
Yes — leave the cure line blank and use the ingredient table and the weights. The traceability is the same either way.
Keep every run of the smoker on one page so a good result can be repeated, a poor one explained, and any batch matched to the run that smoked it.
Record the batch codes going in and the destinations going out, so a recall or a complaint can be traced to one day's production rather than all of it.
Handle a bad batch in order and prove afterwards exactly what was pulled, from where and when, rather than reconstructing it from phone calls.
Keep the ordering knowledge out of one person's head and on a page anybody could pick up.
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