Sausage season

[Nick87]

Ya, it was less than ideal. Also meant I got really used to low fat sausages... I'm not doing 30% beef fat when the fat is going for $3/lbs. Heck at one point brisket was cheaper than what I could get trim fat for! Granted it was on sale, but still

Place in town wanted $4.50 for trim.

 

[SD_Prairie_Goat]

Place in town wanted $4.50 for trim.

Did they ask for your first born too??

 

[Nick87]

Did they ask for your first born too??

Right, but I guess when hamburger is like what $8 in the store?

Edit- we don't really buy much meat from the store. Googled it looks like $5 or so

 

[WildWill]

I save all the trim off the briskets and tri-tips I cook and use it for hamburger. We slaughtered two pigs in November and use the back fat and a couple shoulders for sausage making.

 

[squirrel]

Found a place this year with $.69 pork fat, extremely high quality. Same price for beef fat, got 3-10# packs of beef but one was older and not as good. The other two were also super quality. Ive found out the hard way that cutting corners on your fat compromises the end result and its freezer shelf life. We ended up with several hundred pounds of grinder chunks this year. We needed a lot of straight burger but had enough leftover for re-stocking all the sausage varieties.

Went heavy on hot breakfast which mimics spicy jimmy dean and freezes superbly. Favourite was smoked breakfast which does not take the freezer as well, so we have taken to doing it in smaller batches and always keeping it up top in the freezer.

Next victim is not venison but all pork hot Polish. Need to finish the regular polish before tackling the new batch. Stuffed sausages and the freezer are a bad mix, the sooner one learns this sausage truth the happier little sausage stuffer you will be...

 

[gburk]

I save all the trim off the briskets and tri-tips I cook and use it for hamburger. We slaughtered two pigs in November and use the back fat and a couple shoulders for sausage making.

awesome.. would love to have some pigs!

 

[SD_Prairie_Goat]

Right, but I guess when hamburger is like what $8 in the store?

Edit- we don't really buy much meat from the store. Googled it looks like $5 or so

I don't either, but ya I will check the store every so often to gasp at the price of ground. I remember when my dad was mad that ground was over $1/lbs. Long way from that...