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Kabanos

PostPosted: Tue Jun 19, 2018 7:03 pm
by ace202
am new at this sausage making stuff. Yeah, you see what I did there lol

anyway, looking to make those very flavorful Polish meat sticks called kabanos or Kabanosy. All the recipes I am seeing, they use the 18 to 22 mm natural sheep casings. The sausages available in the store are about the diaeter of a pencil. I am thinking the 18 to 22mm casings way too big. any suggestions? I am assuming the commercial sausages are even in a casing. how else would they retain the shape?

commercially there are the thin ones about a pencil thickness, but also some that are about half inch diameter. am really looking to make the thin ones. so any help appreciated

Re: Kabanos

PostPosted: Tue Jun 19, 2018 11:26 pm
by wheels
Welcome. Don't forget that the casings shrink along with the meat when you dry an air dried sausage.

Phil

Re: Kabanos

PostPosted: Wed Jun 20, 2018 10:45 am
by NCPaul
It's very difficult to stuff very narrow casings by hand due to the back pressure that develops, even more for more than five pound batches. I've seen casings down to 16 mm but haven't seen a stuffing tube that narrow. The sheep casing are what's traditional.

Re: Kabanos

PostPosted: Wed Jun 20, 2018 7:24 pm
by wheels
I have a 10mm tube that I got made by a friend who was an engineer. As you say, it worked better on a 5lb stuffer than my 15lb one. We use 18/20 sheep's casings for cocktail sausages.

Phil