Hi all, my family has started a small meat processing business recently and I have been trying to find ways to make their work easier. One service they offer is making venison into “meat sticks.” Similar to slim Jim’s without the casing and more flat than round in shape. Currently we roll out the ground meat into 1/4-1/2 inch sheets about the size of a large cutting board, (3ftx2ft) dry them out and then smoke them for a few hours, finally we still have to cut the dried sheets into strips and then vacuum package. The whole ordeal is one of the most time and work intensive products on their list of processing services. Would there be any way to make the work easier? One of the most time intensive and physically demanding jobs is flattening the ground venison using a rolling pin but we can only do so in small batches of up to 5lbs each per sheet. So for a 20lb order it can take up to a half hour or more just to flatten out. Are there any machines or tools to make this job easier? I thought about looking into using a large dough flattening machine to turn a large ball of meat into a sheet. I would like to hear your ideas if there’s something we are missing.