Links to New Pics - not for the vegetarians

spud · « **on:** October 04, 2006, 17:59 »

Hi All,

Thought you might like to see what I was up to today....Not strictly to do with gardening...but it's in keeping with helping ourselves to eat better food!

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m82/webpics_06/Sausages_1.jpg

Preparation

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m82/webpics_06/Sausages_2.jpg

Bag of Pork

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m82/webpics_06/Sausages_3.jpg

Pork cut up to feed mincer

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m82/webpics_06/Sausages_4.jpg

First mincing

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m82/webpics_06/Sausages_5.jpg

Minced twice

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m82/webpics_06/Sausages_6.jpg

Stuffing sausages

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m82/webpics_06/Sausages_7.jpg

Finished Product...almost 9lb of homemade Sausages...Hmm!

Hope you enjoy the pics

Best Regards,

KIM200 · « **Reply #1 on:** October 04, 2006, 21:01 »

hi spud,
that looks great fun. my husband has been wanting a sausage maker for ages. that looks a good one where did you get it?
kim

GrannieAnnie · « **Reply #2 on:** October 04, 2006, 22:26 »

Lovely sausages spud. I have a Kenwood chef with mincer and sausages stuffer attachments, but I can't use them because I think my motor is on the blink!!!! sob sob!!!!

hayles62 · « **Reply #3 on:** October 05, 2006, 07:06 »

Looks delish,,,,,,

spud · « **Reply #4 on:** October 05, 2006, 08:41 »

Kim200 Got all my equipment and spices from www.sausagemaking.org/

Found them to be very competitive on price and very helpfull on the phone.

And All, Yes it's a very rewarding hobby, and you know the quality of what you are eating!

John · « **Reply #5 on:** October 05, 2006, 09:05 »

The idea of making your own sausages is appealing but the equipment is hardly cheap!

Great series of pictures, though.

spud · « **Reply #6 on:** October 05, 2006, 11:36 »

John Certainly not cheap, but if you are into eating the best food possible in todays age, and you like sausages, then you sort of have to over look some costs. Just as in our Veg. plots. sometimes it would be cheaper in the shops...but then it never gives the same satisfaction nor has it the same nutritional value.

Plus, as it happens I now have a few orders from family, and it's growing to include friends....

:roll:

John · « **Reply #7 on:** October 05, 2006, 11:51 »

It's a sad reflection on society that the only way to get really good food is to:
1) Produce it yourself
2) Pay through the nose, and hope that the truth is as advertised
3) Know someone like you who produces the food

Having watched that TV program where they went undercover in the factory making hospital food (throwing it around, nutrition - huh?? ) I don't trust anything much that's mass produced. Even Cadbury with the sewer leaking into the factory.

My brother in law is a chef and if he goes to a new restaurant asks to see the kitchen. If the chef isn't proud and happy to show him he goes somewhere else. Imagine asking to see inside a supermarket food supplier's factory.

Celtic Eagle · « **Reply #8 on:** October 05, 2006, 12:43 »

Wow Spud

Those look magic, it looks like pure pork mince going in I can't see any other ingredients. Am I right?

Oh Sausages with a list for too long for a post.

Well done Spud an inspiration

fatgit · « **Reply #9 on:** October 05, 2006, 13:36 »

I never even realised you could get home stuffers, it's something I'm seriously looking at now, as I'm very fussy about my sausages, and I love different varieties

Looks like a kit is going on my Wish List.

John · « **Reply #10 on:** October 05, 2006, 14:24 »

Quote from: "fatgit"

I never even realised you could get home stuffers, it's something I'm seriously looking at now, as I'm very fussy about my sausages, and I love different varieties

Looks like a kit is going on my Wish List.

Sorry, but that made me laugh out loud :oops: :oops:

spud · « **Reply #11 on:** October 05, 2006, 17:26 »

Celtic Eagle Pure pork as in the pic, but I do add some rusk and organic porrige oats, this is needed to hold in moisture and the natural flavours from the spices and herbs (no chemical flavourings), it also helps give a nice texture, also in some of these I added some shop bought black pudding (in the pics)(just cause I like it).

John Yes its sad that we can't get what we think we are buying! but the gov. do pass all the regulations and we vote for them! I feel its up to the indivudal to make a difference. It can be a challange but if you know you're doing your bit, it all adds up....just like the total area of land used for veg growing...adds up to a lot of healthy food, pity not everyone gets to eat it.

John · « **Reply #12 on:** October 05, 2006, 18:09 »

Well I think the British public has been brainwashed about food. The supermarkets grew on the back of cultural and technological change enabling price reductions.
The continual drive for increased profit means that prices are forced down to suppliers to increase margins and competition drives down retail price. What's left to squeeze? Quality. I've spent long enough in marketing to know that if you sell a product as 'Fair Price £1.00' and sell 100 units you can sell 300 units by saying 'Was £2.00 now £1.00"
Tell people your product is premium, quality assured, the best and they will fall for it and often know no better. Farm Fresh Eggs - that one drives me mad - it's truthful but misleading. Where else would eggs come from? I don't want to buy stale rotten eggs.
Maybe it's just me. Then there was the free-range egg seller I called into some years back and noticed a large commercial egg box being emtptied into baskets. That was criminal and really made me wonder who we can trust.

GrannieAnnie · « **Reply #13 on:** October 05, 2006, 21:04 »

There are few people you can trust anymore I think, and yes John, like you, we know all what the shops get up to.

But most people are sooooo gullible. If you are a big supermarket, you can tell them anything and they believe you. Its like all the people who believe everything they hear on the TV or read in a newspaper, they are all out to sell and make money, be it newspapers or supermarkets.

And of course now there is that very important ingredient.........The SHAREHOLDER!!!!!!!! We mustn't forget him or her must we???

What was it Tesco made in the last 6 months out of us? 1.2 BILLION pounds?

And the reason we only pay £1.62 for our 6 pints of milk is because the farmer is only paid about 10p a litre the last I heard!

GrannieAnnie · « **Reply #14 on:** October 05, 2006, 21:08 »

PS Just before we moved from Essex, Brian's friend Don who had a turkey farm. (It was one of the last farms that hand plucked their turkeys in this country) said that a man from Safeway came to see him. The man said to him, we'll take all the turkeys you can produce. Oh yeah, said Don, and how much will you pay me for them? £8 each said the Man from Safeway. Get lost said Don, it costs me more than that to keep them for 5 months. I'll stick to selling them retail and getting £30 for them.

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