Its freezing

[welsh wizard]

Further to a recent topic I posted on how long does a sausage keep in the fridge from which I recieved some very good advice I would like to ask in your experience do any sausages freeze better than any others?

[sausagemaker]

Sorry we seemed to have missed that point, but would like to re-address it now.
I do not think any particular sausage freezes any better than others, although the more fatty the meat the more change of off flavour's developing.
Expect a shelf life of 6 months but do keep them cover or better still sealed to prevent freezer burn.

regards
sausagemaker

[aris]

Vacuum back before freezing to prevent freezer burn.

[welsh wizard]

Vac pack good idea - any advice where I can get one of these and how much they cost?

[sausagemaker]

You can get one from the shop on this site for �130 please see the link below

You can then expect a shelf life of one year using this method.
Oddley has put this machine through its paces & gives it good reviews.

http://www.sausagemaking.org/acatalog/V ... hines.html

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Sausagemaker

[Oddley]

Yep still using the vacuum packer. There is one small problem with it. As I said in the review. It doesn't like wet ingredients. Especially when using the large bags. They have trouble sealing.

I think what happens is any fluid that travels up the bag dissipates some of the heat from the sealing strip. I must say though that I have not had that much trouble vac packing sausages.

The main problem has occurred when trying to pac large cuts of pork in frozen immersion cures. Due to salt and sugar content they take a long time to freeze hard. Anyway still working on it.

I think maybe I am expecting a bit to much from it. After all it is a domestic machine as the price reflects.