Posts by carlo1

Start off with a cold antipasto ...... sliced dry sausage, sliced soppresata, small cuts of reggiano parmesan, assorted olives, roasted pepper, mozzerrella balls and a nice italian dressing. Put some bread sticks on the...

teamfat ............. color of interior when fully cooked was a bloody pink. Not a pleasant experience when eating pork.  Also, when I sliced a piece in half and left the sausage exposed to the air for a few minutes, the exposed...

Just thought I'd bump up this old thread to tell you folks my findings regarding sausage casings. After making about 80 lbs of italian sausage I have discovered that the natural hog casings are the best casing. BUT ...... don't...

Greg said .......   "That would be "Are" with a capital a. How's that glass house in the summer?"       It was a joke. I'm not being a grammar nazi. In fact, potato and...

Potatoe and bacon salad   are you Dan Quayle ?

Ok ...... just cased some delicious italian cheese and parsley sausage with collagen casings. Stuffing them was simple compared to natural hog casings. They looked beautiful in the casing.   Threw them on the barbeque (temp @...

I love sausage with snap or no snap. I love sausage with casing or no casing. What I don't like is eating a sausage with a tough casing. Sometimes this happens, not often, but enough to worry me about the consistency of my...

Just spoke to the president of a long established family owned casing company and he was nice enough to spend some time with me. He told me that natural hog casings will never be consistent because of all the different hog...

That is EXACTLY the casing I think that would be good for me. But when using the same casing but larger size is good for smoking it makes me wonder. I will try the collagens first. I'd rather not try the sheep ..... yucky...

Mary B ...... the website you showed is what confuses me. If collagens are good for smoked sausage how can they be the same for breakfast sausage ? Smoking sausage I would think would require a very durable casing. The differing...