Sausage making

[RizzoTheRat]

Anyone make thier own sausages?

I used to live near a decent butcher in the UK who made thier own really good sausages, but Dutch sausages are rather different, and much as a like a good braadworst, I miss a nice British banger.

I have a sausage making attachment and mincer for the Kenwood Chef so I'm thinking it's time to start making my own.

It appears I can buy various types of skins online, from "naturally salted hog casings" to dried collagen ones. I've only tried making sausages once years ago and used dried casings that came free with a hand stuffing tool, but I found they split really easily when cooking. Not sure if this is a failing of dried casings or the fact that they were cheap ones. Any recommendations?

Also interested in any recipe recommendations.

[21TonyK]

Will watch with interest, I've got all the kit to make them but never got round to trying.

If anyone has a proper merguez recipe I'd give it a go.

[killysprint]

try weschenfelder in middlesboro' for all things sausage related.

Helpful, knowledgeable nice people. Supply the trade and to the public. Supply skins, rusk, spice blends and the equipment. Have used them for about the last 10 years.

No affiliate with the company, just a happy customer. Wish I could say the same about Jaguar and our POS ipace. Don't buy one of them.

[Morvan]

My Black Pudding sausages.

[RizzoTheRat]

killysprint said:

try weschenfelder in middlesboro' for all things sausage related.

Sadly they don't deliver to Europe, which is a shame because some of their mixes sound lovely.. What type of skins do you usually use? I've had a poke around several websites and they all seem to be focused on American and Italian sausages and not yet found any suggestions for a basic British banger.

Edited by RizzoTheRat on Friday 16th July 14:13

[Cotty]

To start with its certainly worth taking a look at the sausage making videos from Scott Rea.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_t4Om5siqqFtVGd...

Most of his videos contain links below where you can get the things he is using.

[Cotty]

21TonyK said:

Will watch with interest, I've got all the kit to make them but never got round to trying.

If anyone has a proper merguez recipe I'd give it a go.

This video good for you? That harissa paste he is using comes from Sainsburys, however the shape of the jar has changed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuG3VO9iL68

[CharlesdeGaulle]

Morvan said:

My Black Pudding sausages.

I like Morvan's posts, but many of them sicken me slightly!