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My name is Jerry and I have retired but it seems I stay busier now than I did when I worked a job. I live in central Florida technically but spend a lot of time at some property we own in north Florida. We grow pine trees there and eventually hope to move up there. I have built several buildings up there and have power and water. One of the buildings is what we call the cookshed and its 24x48 with an additional 12x24 covered porch. Its pretty much for cooking meals and entertaining and I have a commercial 6 burner LP stove in it as well as a stainless pro series electric double oven and since I hate washing dishes it has a dishwasher. I do some smoking and sausage making as well as hunting and I process my own meat so have some equipment for that. I also enjoy fishing when I get the chance. I'm just staring into the whole cheese making thing and have to obtain equipment but I think I would enjoy the cheese making and know that if its any good my wife would enjoy the cheese eating    Thanks for having me here and I will apologize now for all the stupid questions I'm sure I'll ask

Welcome Jerry! Sounds like a dream kitchen to me! I also love to make sausages of all kinds. ALways experimenting. Got ssome great recipes I've developed on my website and an eBook you can download. AFter awhile you will learn to make high temperature cheese to add to your sausages. Good luck!

Making high temp cheese would be nice. Its still hunting season here and shortly after its over it'll be time to make a bunch of summer sausage and not having to buy cheese would be nice. I have a few other toys you might find interesting like a 1.5 hp LEM grinder, a 15 lb vertical stuffer, electric cuber, commercial slicer, GOSM, Smokehouse, Lang 84, and I just picked up a 10 tray dehydrator and now I have to start adding cheese making equipment good think I built the cookshed big 

My equipment is much smaller scale.  I dont' hunt so my sausage making is limited to what's on sale. Usually 10 to 30 pound batches. I have the smaller Lem grinder and I love it. Hard working little beasty! I have a 5 pound stuffer. I friend of mine has the 15 pound stuffer and I have to stand on a chair to fill it. That I wish I would have waited on sometimes and got the bigger one but then I have to store it somewhere and clinb up and down to use it. I have a small 9 inch weston slicer. Almost bought a commercial Globe slicer but couldn't lift the dang thing and it can't stay in the kitchen WAY to big. I have a Camp Chef Smoke Vault 24 inch I love, a Brinkmann ECB and a Cinese offset that I converted into a part time gas grill part time offset smoker - limited space and short of stature here.