Following on from my first post about the Lidl mincer/sausage maker, I am now researching manual stuffers.
What started out as a budget exercise suddenly looks expensive.
Advice here says vertical stuffer, not horizontal.
£100 for a vertical stuffer?
http://www.sausagemaking.org/acatalog/Fully_Stainless_Hobby_Stuffer.html
This is for a "Hobby" stuffer - I suppose a fair description of what I am getting into but quite big money.
Amazon lists several verticals which are around the £120 mark.
Alternatively there is the Lakeland horizontal stuffer
http://www.lakeland.co.uk/71278/Home-Made-Sausage-Maker
or similar (very similar) from Amazon
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kitchen-Craft-KCHMSAUSAGE-Sausage-Maker/dp/B00BJ47AI6/
These are under £25.
So can you get acceptable results from a horizontal stuffer when doing small batches (say under 5 kg mix), or would this be money wasted?
Is the Lakeland (or similar) a step up from a sausage attachment for a mincer?
Finally, are sausage filling funnels of a standard design?
The one from the Lidl mincer is tapered and so not good for collagen casings.
The Lidl tube is 58.66mm external diameter (according to my digital callipers) so presumably this is "size 5" as shown in
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Size-Sausage-Stuffing-Attachment-Making/dp/B00BM5H1F4
which does look as though it might fit.
So my options seem to be:
(1) Spend around £100 (or more) on a vertical stuffer.
(2) Spend around £25 (or less) on a horizontal stuffer.
(3) Buy some extra tubes for my mincer/stuffer to make using collagen casings easier.
What does the team think?