Making pork sausage.

[bjrogg]

Every year we get together and make enough pork sausage to last the year.

It seems like every year we have more people who want to participate and share in the rewards of fresh home grown pork sausage. We did about 375 lbs last year. This year we did 519 lbs. it’s a big job, but we had some good help and I enjoyed it.

We got a crew cutting a deboning the meat. Getting it ready to grind.

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Next a crew to grind it.
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 Next step a crew to weigh, season and mix

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Then a crew to stuff it in casings.

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We couldn’t keep up with just one stuffer so we had to pull to older one out of semi retirement. This stuffer is older than anyone here, but it still works great.

Also got to train my grandson on it.

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Loaded it up in the back of pickup and headed to my neighbors smoke house.

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Here’s the smoke house

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And here’s the inside with sausage hanging

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Then the big job cleaning everything up. It took me longer to clean up than to cut , grind and stuff. I also did 50 lbs of venison summer sausage while I already had the mess.

Then went back to the smoke house and took the sausage out.

The next day four of us vacuum packed it. That took about four hours itself.

Then put it in freezer.

It’s a lot of work but I enjoy it and it’s so much better than from the store.

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[Pappy]

Looks like our brat making session , lots of work but lots of fun to go along with the work. Don't even seem like work.
 Pappy

[Stoker]

Good times. My friend and I started 31 years ago. I still have a old press exactly like yours. We will be making it in about 2 weeks
Leroy   

[BrianS]

Looks Great!

[Trapper Rob]

We used to do the same thing.
It tastes much better than the store bought also.

[bjrogg]

Looks like our brat making session , lots of work but lots of fun to go along with the work. Don't even seem like work.
 Pappy

I’m sure it’s very similar Pappy.

It didn’t feel like work while I was doing it but it sure felt like it this morning when I crawled out of bed.

It would be nice to be able to hose down the floor. Clean up is a big task I end up doing after everyone leaves.
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Stoker that’s cool. It’s nice to have someone to share a tradition like this with.

I use to do this with my old friend Cass. When he passed I inherited his grinder, mixer, stuffer and vacuum packer.

Even got his barbecue grill. I remember lighting it the first time after he passed. The aroma of past barbecues my friend had cooked brought back some good memories.

So does using all of this equipment. And cooking it up and eating what we make with it. Same old original recipe

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