i too have yet to make my own sausages and im sure i will eventually splash into it. Keep us posted on how it goes!
I recently tried my hand at sausage making. It was harder than I expected it to be. I'm going to try again soon and hopefully will have worked out some of the kinks. I have to ask (and perhaps this is one indication that I don't know what I'm doing), but how does the pressure cooker factor into sausage making.
Good to know that you can still find pressure cookers. I've looked at stores before with no luck.
Good looking gear. You're going to get hooked! I did 6lbs of german/italian sausage today. Best investment ever.
Cool! It's the tieing off part that especially worries me. In the videos I saw, they saw, "reverse twist" every other casing as you're doing it. But if you reverse twist, how do you stop the previous one from unwinding?
btcg,
welcome to the wonderful world of sausage making. your library can be your friend. I've found lots of good books there on sausage making. I ended up buying a few but wanted to check them out first.
the twisting thing takes some practice. what i do is "pinch" each sausage as its coming off the stuffer tube at the appropriate length, say 6 to 8 inches. I pinch between thumb and forefinger and hold it till the next sausage has about inch or 2 of sausage in it, then let go. After the whole casing is filled , then I twist every other one the opposite direction while holding the ones on either side to keep from twisting. hope this makes sense.
btcg,
welcome to the wonderful world of sausage making. your library can be your friend. I've found lots of good books there on sausage making. I ended up buying a few but wanted to check them out first.
the twisting thing takes some practice. what i do is "pinch" each sausage as its coming off the stuffer tube at the appropriate length, say 6 to 8 inches. I pinch between thumb and forefinger and hold it till the next sausage has about inch or 2 of sausage in it, then let go. After the whole casing is filled , then I twist every other one the opposite direction while holding the ones on either side to keep from twisting. hope this makes sense.
What he said!
BTW, collagen casings suck. Natural are waaaaaay better.
I have a big pdf file on sausage recipes. I just dont know where to host it so people can upload it. Any help?
I'll PM you. We can put it on one of my commercial servers.
Cool deal.
Here we are:
https://kickam2.com/sausage/sausage.html
Follow instructions. Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader (free) link provided.
Hey, I dont deserve the credit for that. I got those links from other brothers here. I see it as we all help each other out. :thumb: