Natural Casing Information/FAQ's/casing length required etc.

[Parson Snows]

Casings come in a variety of sizes and are usually sold by the hank, bundle, cap or ounce. It is always difficult to estimate how much casing you will need to stuff your batch of sausage. A few rules of thumb:

1 pound of meat will stuff about 2 feet of medium-size hog casing (32-35 mm)

1 pound of meat will stuff about 4 feet of medium-size lamb casing (20-22 mm)

1 ounce of medium-size hog casing (32-35 mm) will stuff about 8 feet of sausage

1 pound of medium-size lamb casing (20-22 mm) will stuff about 16 feet of sausage



The above table also gives some useful casing information

hope that you find this of some use


kind regards

Parson Snows

[sausagemaker]

Further Information on natural casings can be found on the link below

http://www.insca.org/faq

regards
sausagemaker

[Parson Snows]

Further natural casing information/FAQ's can be found on the link
http://www.dewied.com/DW20041029/default.htm

kind regards

Parson Snows

[aris]

How long is a hang of ox runners, and how much can they stuff per foot/meter?

[Parson Snows]

Aris asked

How long is a hang of ox runners, and how much can they stuff per foot/meter?

Ox runners are typically known as �Beef Rounds�.
Though I have noticed that both sausagemaker.org and scoobiedirect.com both refer to these in HANKS, the term hank is typically used to describe hog and sheep casings only. Beef Rounds are normally measured and sold in �units or sets� of 9, 18 and 30 metres (approx 29 � ft, 59 ft and 98 ft). As the sizes/diameter can vary from between 35 mm to 46 mm and up (1 ⅜ inches to 1 ⅞ inches). I would need to know what size you are planning on using, or if you're buying them from Franco what size he stocks. Unless you want the whole range.

Kind regards

Parson Snows

[aris]

I suppose franco should answer, as I'd probably be buying half a hank from him.

[Parson Snows]

I'll await the answer from Franco, though in the meantime I'll type out the whole range and post it in the next couple of days.

kind regards

Parson Snows

[Fatman]

I have often ignored this type of questioning, due to that I do not know the answer.

Well until now that is!

So to answer the question on how much casing is required , I took my tape measure and measured the length of sausage times by six ( I'm talking boar skins) which gave me 2ft 9ins appx per lb

Now you can say, well how much did you fill them by etc etc
My theory says allow 1yard per pound of meat plus water plus rusk.

Any comments ?

Regards

Fatman

[Parson Snows]

fatman wrote

My theory says allow 1yard per pound of meat plus water plus rusk.
Any comments ?

Sorry fatman I wasn't aware that you were looking for a figure. You didn't mention the diameter of the casings/skins though I'll assume that they are approx. 32 mm which is a pretty standard size for UK style sausages.
I posted this some time ago under �Sausage Making/Recipes/�how much fat?� refer to "Method - Item No. 10"
http://forum.sausagemaking.org/viewtopi ... 7&start=28

Typically for a normal sized sausage, 1 metre (3 ft) of 32 mm skin is required per 500 g (1 lb) of sausage.

kind regards

Parson Snows

PS I suggest that the moderators/admin. move the appropriate posts from this to the �Beginners Section�

[Fatman]

The point I was trying to make was, if we are searching for the amount of skins required to make lets say for arguement 2lbs of sausage and we know that we often get 6 sausages to the lb and each sausage is appx 5 inches long. Then 6 sausages times 5 inches gives us 36 inches i.e. a yard, so for 2 lbs we need 2 yards of skins.

This is of coarse is only my very rough assesment of working out how much casing is required for my 2lbs of sausage meat.

Sorry guys ! I don't do technical jargon and mathematics, but I do hope you find my version helpful.

Regards

Fatman