Home Sausage Making Guide

These articles will guide you through the method of making traditional sausages. Making sausages at home is becoming more popular as people seek to improve the quality of the food they eat, avoid waste and save money.

Home-made sausages taste better,simply because they are made from better quality ingredients and to your individual taste. Sausage making is a fun hobby.

Reasons to Make Your Own Sausages

There are many reasons people are now making their own sausages at home rather than just buying from a shop.

Recent scandals, such as the horse meat being incorporated into ready prepared meals has reduced consumer confidence in the large supermarkets and their international, almost untraceable supply chains.

By making your own sausages you can be certain there are no unnatural or unnecessary additives in your sausage and that it is full of wholesome and fully flavoursome goodness.

Additionally you can know the provenance of your raw materials, primarily the meat, and you can be certain there are no unnatural or unnecessary additives in your sausage and that it is full of wholesome and fully flavoursome goodness?.

Knowing the source of your meat you can be sure that the meat within your sausage has come from an animal that has been kindly treated and ethically produced.

You can be certain about what you and your family are eating in a sausage and never get that horrid gristly bit again!

Others are striving to eat healthily and ‘go green’ by eating a lesser proportion of meat in their meals but without compromising any of the taste, texture or satisfaction.

If you have your own allotment, vegetable garden or growing space to produce your own vegetables, herbs and maybe even fruits, you open another way to utilize the produce

Guide to Home Sausage Making

Home-Made Sausage Ingredients: Meat, Fat & Rusk (Fillers)

The three main ingredients of a sausage are meat, fat and a filler. In this article we discuss the importance of quality ingredients and how perceived expensive ingredients need not mean an expensive sausage. However, quality home-made sausages will...

Home Made Sausage Ingredients: Liquids, Flavourings, Casings (skins) etc.

Beyond meat, fat and rusk you will need to ensure your home-made sausage is moist and flavoursome. There's a choice of casing, as the skins are called, wet or dry and from different animal sources. This article follows on from Home-Made Sausage Ingredients:...

Home-Made Sausage - Equipment, Processing & Cooking

You don't need lots of expensive equipment to make your own sausages as we explain, however, you do need to cook them properly to really appreciate the flavour and quality you've imparted. This article follows on from Home-Made Sausage Ingredients: Liquids,...

Ethical Meat for Making Your Own Home-Made Sausages

Ethically reared, premium quality meat with fat is the starting point for creating your own home-made delicious and gristle-free sausage and how your meat is reared really does matter for both taste and importance of caring how animals reared for meat...

Raising Your Own Pigs for Sausage Making

To be absolutely certain that your pork has been ethically produced to a high standard, you really can't beat raising a couple of pigs yourself if you have the land. If you are lucky enough to have land of your own then rearing a couple of...