Quote Originally Posted by STF View Post
I love hand powered kitchen doodads as well.

I bought a sausage making thing, it looks like a big hypodermic syringe, the sausage skin gets pushed up the spout until it's all on then twist the end so the meat doesn't squirt straight through.
Fill the body with sausage meat and press the plunger slowly as you let the skin run off the spout, holding it on until the sausage gets as fat as you like. Twist it when the sausage is the right length and keep pressing until the skin runs out and there's a nice plateful of sausage links.

I have great fun experimenting with flavours,
Sausage and Apple, Spicy, Mustard, Beef, Honey Mustard. Pretty much anything that sounds interesting.

I got it from Amazon, it was only about $10, white plastic but works really well, my dad had a large metal one when I was a kid.

On a side note. Here in North America we use actual sausage skin, in England and I assume the rest of Europe because of Brussels sausage skins are some kind of edible plastic.
I agree with you about sausage making. My meat grinder, and stuffer are both hand cranked. I use both natural and man made casings depending on what I am doing. It keeps me out of trouble.