Sausage making

Preparing your own sausage casings

This is a messy, but satisfying job - however it is difficult to get consistent results comparable to professionally done casings.

The FAO has an excellent guide to preparing casings.

Buying sausage casings

Comparing suppliers and types of sausage casing

• Allied Kenco "we cater to the home butcher" - seems to be a good place to get smaller quantities and good information on sausage casings

• Butcher & Packer potentially the best prices on bulk purchase of items without having to make a phone call

• de Wied "making a 'strong case' for sausages" - have to call in

• Heinsohn's Country Store - good accessories

• One Stop Jerky Shop

• [thesausagemaker.com Sausage maker]