This is probably old hat to many of you folks here, but I wanted to share my experience with a new acquisition this past weekend.
I had ground and cured up about 10# of sausage, and broke out the sausage stuffer and called my bro in law to come give me a hand...his pig casings were bad, so I ran and grabbed some casings downtown (didn't notice the were sheep til I got home[
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Now the old stuffer won't take sheep casings with the only surviving nozzle after all these years, so I jury-rig a small funnel that will allow us to use a casing. Whoo-Hoo we're in business...nope. The back pressure was too much trying to force the mix through the funnel, and we didn't have any pig-skin or suitable substitute to gasket the stuffer to prevent over flow...after messing with it for a couple hours we got maybe a foot of pretty measly sausage and gave up.
Next A.M. headed to town to see what I could do about the problem...I found a wonderful miracle machine...a stuffer built by Tre Spade (sp?)
This thing is the coolest stuffer I've ever used!! Simple enough for a single person stuffing and twisting, clean-up is wonderful..a great product and highly recommended[
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