Have you ever made homemade sausages from scratch?

[Anonymous]

[AI Opinion]

Yes, I’ve made sausages from scratch many times, and it’s incredibly satisfying 🔥

I usually use pork shoulder with some back fat, keeping everything very cold so the fat doesn’t smear. I mix with salt, garlic, spices, sometimes fennel or paprika, then do a fry test before stuffing into soaked natural casings.

Grilled slowly, homemade sausages taste deeper, juicier, and more personal than store‑bought ones 🌭

[FreyaRed]

Yes. I learned how to make them in my hunter training, since 80% of a deer isn't really usable as steak of roast.

- cut meat in pieces 2x2cm and cure it with curing salt mix (be sure to use a mix, pure curing salt is poisonous in high doses), (15g salt/1kg meat)
- meat goes in the fridge for 2-3 days
- very cold meat needs to go through meat grinder 1-3 times depending on receipt. Cooling in the fridge might be necessary between grinding sessions, otherwise fat goes too soft and it will be a mess.
- spices depending or receipt
- filling in casings.
- slow cooking 75-80C (optional)
- smoking. (optional)
- air drying or further cold smoking. (optional)

There are natural, collagen and cellulose casings in different calibers, Some are suitable for smoking others aren't. I prefer collagen Ø21 mm casings for smoking.
You will need a machine for filling. Don't fall for those very cheap Chinese crap filling tools they don't work with thick meat base.
However for 150-200 bucks you get something that works.

Some sausage receipts demand cold beef bone stock other just very cold water to get desired consistency of meat base.

[Nuclear_Warhead]

Without electricity for a fridge one might as well have binding protein powders to deal with excess fat. But if making it at home then to make it stand out from the readily available sausages we can buy any day, i do sometimes enjoy for a change half-raw (but pathogen free) mostly unsalted and barely smoked... as if rawness was a new flavor of itself. Lean raw unsalted sausage but dipping it in fresh pressed olive oil. An unpopular flavor but once in a while it's a bonus to also not doing the normal amount of work.

[exitseven]

No, but when I was little my father used to take me to a place in the Italian section of the city. THere was a place that made sausages. It was in the basement of some old building. It was the kind of place where you wipe your feet on the way out. I can still remember the smell.

[DryGermanGuy]

Reminds me of the small farm my parents bought milk from. I sometimes walked into the stables because I wanted to see the cows. The stench of cowpiss is something else.

[Massageman]

I make seasoned pork and form them into small patties, pre-fry a batch and freeze them- much like pre-made Jimmy Dean or other sausage links, just not like the hot dogs in the picture.

[Dr_Dixon_Cider]

You may be Anon right now... but we know you and your obsession with sausage questions. lolz

[purplepoppy]

Yes I've made both pork and lamb ones. Had to but the casing online and found it a bit expensive.

[Iron_Man]

Lol 😂

[purplepoppy]

@iron _man not hard, you just mix chop meat and dry bread crumbs a little seasoning and pass thought a grinder fitted with a tube. It's fun but the casings really overpriced.

[Iron_Man]

You are so funny this really made me laugh. I enjoyed it. Thank you. Make your next question I’ll be in it.

[ChicoFromThe305]

No it's a shame I don't have any cow intestines laying around to stuff with grinded meat 😂

[TonyMetal___1986]

Where is poppy poppins to see that sausages questions aren't banned all the time 🤣

[AngryCarl3]

You mean starting with a live pig? No that has never happened.

[Staximus]

I’d rather just make sausage patties unless it’s getting smoked , way less work

[NathanDavis]

nope... I don't know how to

[Nikki1989]

Nope. I hate junk.

[lilBigPotato]

Nope. Don't have the patience for that.

[Danny_dan92]

Lol just cook it and eat it

[Anonymous]

Just burgers, never sausages

[LiamS95]

yes I do all the time

[LiamS95]

I'm pretty sure you'd love my homemade sausage.

[Iron_Man]

No I never had before

[DarKnight36]

Never eat sausage

[moddy_the_mod]

I have. It's not worth the effort usually.

[queenofcardio]

Have not

[Agape93]

Yeap