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Smoking Techniques => Sausage Making => Topic started by: jack and coke on January 06, 2011, 07:16:58 AM

Title: proper way to tie sausages
Post by: jack and coke on January 06, 2011, 07:16:58 AM
you guys have any good ways to tie sausages up.  i'm not trying to have them blow up on me.  i'm new to this.  any help will be great.  you guys just knot the casings, use butcher twine, or those wire things.

thank you
Title: Re: proper way to tie sausages
Post by: classicrockgriller on January 06, 2011, 08:27:44 AM
Collagen casings (sticks and 32mm) I tie with butcher twine.

Hog casings, I tie on the ends using the casings and then do the twisty

thing for my lengths.

I use hog rings on bulk sausage (bag) and Fiborous casings. (chubs and 3 lb'ers)

But I am new at this and I might be doing something wrong, but that is what I do.
Title: Re: proper way to tie sausages
Post by: Waltz on January 06, 2011, 08:56:27 AM
This is a useful guide:
http://www.sausagemaking.org/linkingSausages.html
I hope the link works.

Regards, and Happy New Year,
Waltz
Title: Re: proper way to tie sausages
Post by: 3rensho on January 06, 2011, 09:36:36 AM
QuoteThis is a useful guide:

He only has two thumbs - I have 10 LOL
Title: Re: proper way to tie sausages
Post by: RAF128 on January 06, 2011, 12:14:31 PM
For sticks with collegen casings and regular sausage with hog casing I don't tie at all.   I pinch it and twist it.   You can cut it later and it doesn't leak.   When I make summer sausage using the bigger fibrous casings I use hog rings and hog ring pliers.