Another new starter with dryish sausages

Sounds like your getting there. The bread needs to be very dry before making it into breadcrumbs and it could be that you need more breadcrumbs in your mixture - a lot depends on the meat used. Try using 150gms breadcrumbs and make sure that they are dry. Looking forward to your next report !!

My first batch was a little dry but very tasty, second was made with just bellypork and better, but still on the dry side

My version of 'breadcrumbs' is running 2 slices of bread through the mincer. Could this be the problem

Hi Geoff,

I use 100% Pork shoulder making sure it has plenty of fat (I do not remove the skin either), I have no problems at all with dryness! however I have made some 100% Beef and they ended up very dry, I now add about 30% pure pork fat and they are very nice, I have also found not grinding the meat to small also helps a great deal, it still end's up very smooth after filling,
Hope that helps a little, and good luck,

John

It is always good to have about 30 percent fat in the sausages and to make sure that the breadcrumbs are really dry so that they hold some moisture. Using the recipe from designasausage should work really well so maybe they were cooked for too long. Try baking them in the oven for 30 minutes at 175 deg C! Practice makes perfect!

I just made my first batch and, although the sausages were a good taste, they did seem rather dry when cooked.

I used the recipe suggested in the booklet that came with my mincer /stuffer from Designa Sausage (approx 1kg meat, of which 2/3 was pork shoulder, 1/3 pork belly; 100ml chilled water; 100g dried breadcrumbs; ~30g seasoning; ~12g stabiliser; I think that was it).

I did cook them on a lower heat than I normally do for bought sausages, so they may have cooked longer, but they weren't succulent and juicy like the ones we normally have from Waitrose. They had been left in the fridge for a couple of days after making before we cooked them and used the collagen skins.

Any thoughts on how to improve them? I wondered if I might need more fat, as the piece of belly that I used didn't seem to have a lot of fat in it, or whether the dried skins soaked up some of the moisture.

Thanks


Geoff