Thread: Sausage and Smoke Cooking

When I drop it in the grass it will be easier to find!

I have been looking at some of their more expensive units and want to check this one out.

I'm trying a small batch of breakfast sausage from a new recipe. The recipe is from the guy who had that great percentage way of measuring to make bacon.

It's 'OK', but I think I'll make another batch and add some ingredients from another recipe which my kids really like.

I've usually had help with guiding the sausage casings as they filled but yesterday it was just me and I struggled with blowouts. I used sheep casings and they are very easily torn.

I've always had the stuffer facing the middle of the table but when I went to stuff the last bit a light bulb came on and I turned the stuffer around and used a baking pan to catch the sausage and it worked great! In fact a little too great as the casings filled a bit too full and a couple of times when I used my thumb and forefinger to indent the casing to twist it the casing ruptured.



Here's before I made individual sausages.



I've packaged the links for the kids, my son picked his up last night. I'll take the rest to the others tomorrow. I used part of the slop from the stuffer to fry and get an idea of how it tasted. The rest is frozen and I'll take it to Ski to try.

C clamps on the dining room table.

My kind of guy!

Originally Posted by 32t

C clamps on the dining room table.

My kind of guy!

Just ONE of the advantages of not having a SWMBO Plus that table is my workbench. I prep bread on it, make sausage, pin razors AND it also doubles as a place to serve food and eat on!

Many, many years ago the company I worked produce for used an electric 'Lettuce Trimmer' to cut the butts of of head lettuce and other things. All it was was a 1/3rd HP electric motor mounted on a frame that had a coupling fixture that held an injector razor blade--Safety First????

At the time they used a company known as Harold's Electric for 99.9% of any repair work. Anyway the thing needed new bearings as you could hear it rattling from one end of the back room to the other when it was running but the store manager wouldn't pay Harold's to have it fixed so I took it upon myself to write down the motor's serial number and buy new bearings and brushes. Then one day when I got off at 2 pm I took it home and rebuilt it on my kitchen table and brought it back that night.

The very next day, the store manager came by when I was using it while it hummed away and he exploded! God Damn It Roy! I told you I wasn't going to pay Harold's to have that fixed!

I told him that Harold's hadn't fixed it that I'd done it at home.

He stood there like a deer in the headlights for a moment then said; God Damn It! That's working Off The Clock! I told him that I didn't consider sitting at my table drinking beers 'Work'.

He said that he'd put me in for two hours OT to cover my time and thanked me for caring enough about the companies property to take care of it.

Man I miss him. Cancer took him far too young. His two daughters were still in school. One in Jr High the Other a Sophomore in High School.

That breakfast sausage looks great. I wish you would adopt me, because your kids get the best food.

Originally Posted by spazola

That breakfast sausage looks great. I wish you would adopt me, because your kids get the best food.

Hmmm 'Spaz Davis'--------------------------Sounds like you'd fit right in with the Davis Clan.

I'm going to frame that