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Make'n Sausage
- JEBar
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Re: Make'n Sausage
info appreciated .... at this point we don't anticipate grinding our sausage or stuffing it in casings .... we will purchase the ground pork and add our on seasonings .... we may freeze it in some type of pound container .... we are still working out these and other issues
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- JEBar
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Re: Make'n Sausage
as an experiment we cooked a large patty (roughly 4" diameter and 1" thick) of the sausage purchased in post 1 .... to us the results shown in the pictures below were impressive .... texture and taste were fine .... virtually NO shrinkage .... the last picture shows a 1TBS measuring spoon with all grease rendered .... yep, less than 1/4 of a TBS rendered from a large patty .... this alone is a strong motivator to make our own
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- JEBar
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Re: Make'n Sausage
I pretty much did that this morning .... had fried eggs covered with shredded cheese and that patty of sausage on the side ...
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- JEBar
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Re: Make'n Sausage
early in our research on making sausage we realized that right now we weren't interested in stuffing sausage into casings to produce links of sausage .... for us forming sausages into patties is a much more attractive option .... realizing that we will be making runs that could involve a considerable number of patties .... we found that there are bunches off options available and as usual, come can be expensive .... we settled on the Burger Master Press & Freezer .... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00XHI1AGA?re ... tails&th=1 .... it is capable of turning 2 pounds of ground meat into 8 quarter pound patties .... it will work with pork, beef, chicken, or any other ground meat .... we are considering purchasing 5 which will allow us to process 10 pounds at a setting .... should we choose to do so we could mix up 10 pounds, fill the press, freeze it overnight .... the next day we should be able to empty the molds and repeat that process .... we often purchase bulk packs of hamburger at Sam's and fully intend to turn it into individual patties .... that should come in handy
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- JEBar
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Re: Make'n Sausage
this morning we purchased enough 93/7 hamburger to test one of our new burger presses .... looking forward to seeing if it lives up to the hype
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- JEBar
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Re: Make'n Sausage
Maureen bought two 4.5 lb bulk packs of 97/3 hamburger from Walmart .... each pack filled 2 Burger Presses with a pound of hamburger left over ..... washing/drying them was simple .... sealing the lid to the bottom requires a touch that wasn't hard to master ..... we learned that the top shelf in our camper's freezer can accommodate 4 presses ..... we hope they will freeze overnight so that we can work through the next step of vacuum sealing the patties .... so far, so good
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- JEBar
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Re: Make'n Sausage
Burger Press performs as advertised .... shown below are 32 quarter pound hamburger patties that have been vacuum packed and put into the freezer .....
lessons learned :
preforms pretty much as advertised
it does take some effort to get the burgers out of the forms, with practice it gets much easier
need to wear gloves when handling the frozen patties
lessons learned :
preforms pretty much as advertised
it does take some effort to get the burgers out of the forms, with practice it gets much easier
need to wear gloves when handling the frozen patties
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