Many meat grinder models come with sausage making attachments or sausage stuffers that allow you to transform your machine into a sausage maker. Popular meat grinder brands like
Waring Pro and
Weston offer sausage attachments as additional features. How do you use a sausage stuffer? First, as outlined in this
Meat Grinder Reviews article, use your meat grinder to make the ground sausage mixture. Secondly, follow these steps to easily make homemade sausage:
- Certain meat grinder models have sausage making rings that screw onto the grinder’s feed screw. The feed screw is where you would normally add the cutting blades and coarse cutting plates if you were grinding meat.
- Place the sausage attachment or sausage tube, that will be used to extrude the sausage mixture through, on the meat grinder’s sausage ring, or feed screw or feed head if there is no ring, and tighten. Many meat grinders have small and large sausage attachments and tubes to allow for different sized sausage links.
- Slide the sausage casing, that the sausage mixture will be extruded into, over the end of the
sausage attachment. Leave at least
2 inches of the casing’s end hanging over the end
of the attachment.
- Put the previously ground sausage mixture into the hopper and turn the meat grinder on.
Use the meat grinder’s pusher to force the sausage mixture into the hopper. Use the
pusher until the mixture appears and extrudes out of
the end of the sausage attachment.
- While extruding the sausage, keep the casing moist by watering
it frequently. Continue extruding until the casing is
approximately 2 inches from being full. Turn the meat grinder off.
- Twist the sausage filled casing at various intervals to make the sausage link sizes desired.
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Published 8/7/2010 12:00:00 AM
Tags: Sausage