sausage making

Shipping Natural Products for Home Processing

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Thank you very much for ordering natural products from High Caliber Products.   When you place an order online and select shipping, we want you to know that we take the appropriate care to ensure that your items are shipped out in a timely and safe manner.   Due to the sensitive features of some natural products, … Read more

Pork Trim vs Pork Fat: Know your cuts

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Pork Trim vs. Pork fat High Caliber know your meat block

If you’re new to sausage-making you may be wondering about a few terms such as pork trim, pork fat and meat block. Sausage-making is an art, perfected over time with trial and error. But there is definitely a science to it, and you need to know the basics to ensure your masterpiece not only tastes … Read more

Sausage Making: 5 Steps of Cooking

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Join High Caliber Instructor Chris Giffen as he teaches Mantracker Terry Grant the 5 Steps of Cooking.

Many DIY sausage-makers like to smoke their sausage. Find out the tips to do it like a pro! Chris Giffen shows you step-by-step how to get that perfect result.

Did you know there are 5 Steps to Cooking?

Here are Chris Giffen’s pro tips for achieving the perfect smoked sausage:

  1. Reddening
    Set the cure to achieve desired colour. Warm the sausage at about 50 degrees Celcius.
  2. Drying
    Increase the temperature and trap the proteins in the casing.
  3. Smoking
    Get the flavour! Smoke at about 70 degrees Celcius for about an hour and a half .
  4. Cooking
    Cook the smoke flavour into the sausage. Raise the temperature of your smokehouse to about 85 degrees Celcius until you have an internal temp of 71 degrees Celcius to achieve food safety (dependent on the diameter of your sausage; this phase can take as little as half an hour up to 7 or 8 hours.)
  5. Showering
    Cool the sausage and stop the cooking process. Prevent casing from wrinkling.

If you are new to sausage-making, click here for a great article How to Make Sausage at Home, A Step-by-Step Guide.

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I would like to try making sausage at home, what do I need to get started?

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fresh sausage made in the high caliber kitchen

How To Make Sausage at Home, A Step-by-Step Guide So many people are looking to make sausage at home, but they don’t know what they need to get started. Making your own sausage is a great way to provide a healthy food option in an affordable fashion. There are so many variables to sausage-making, it is hard … Read more

How to Prevent a Shrivelled Sausage Casing

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Tips & Tricks of the Trade: Showering & Cooling Making your own smoked sausage is a great way to stock up on handy, healthy snacks for your winter excursions, but they don’t always look as good as they taste. So how do you get the outside to look as good as the inside tastes? The … Read more