Ideas please!

[Ma]

Hello all, just found the forum and had to sign up!

I started making sausages this summer when I had the great fortune to get a sausage attachment for my kitchenaid mixer for my birthday. I have had some success of which I am very proud!

I have half a pig coming around the end of this month and am anticipating major activity in dealing with it! Some ideas of where to start would be great. Can I use any bits of meat for sausages? Should I have go at a salami maybe? And what about a bit of home curing (never tried THAT before!)

All suggestions gratefully received!

[Paul Kribs]

Welcome to the forum Ma

It is quite a time consuming procedure processing 1/2 a pig as you can imagine. There is a lot of information on this forum regarding what you can make, and how to make it.. unfortunately you will have to do a lot of reading and using the 'search' facility on this forum, but you will find it of great benefit and woth the time and effort.

Initially you should butcher the 1/2 pig into primal cuts. I have a very basic tutorial on my website in the sausagemaking section, and if you need more detail there is a link on the bottom of that page for a very good in depth tutorial from Othmar Vohringer, master butcher. Just click the WWW icon on the bottom of this post.

Regards, Paul Kribs

[J.P.]

Will you be getting the blood?

If not, see if you can ask for some.
Make some Black pudding!

[othmar]

Hello all, just found the forum and had to sign up!

I started making sausages this summer when I had the great fortune to get a sausage attachment for my kitchenaid mixer for my birthday. I have had some success of which I am very proud!

I have half a pig coming around the end of this month and am anticipating major activity in dealing with it! Some ideas of where to start would be great. Can I use any bits of meat for sausages? Should I have go at a salami maybe? And what about a bit of home curing (never tried THAT before!)

All suggestions gratefully received!

I am very happy for you to have found such an rewardsing hobby. Like it has been said here you will have a lot of reading to do and learn but it will be fun. I invite you to visit my forum and ask any questions you may have. You will find a lot of helpful folks here.