How to Make Sausage?

Some people believe that making your own sausage is a complicated and daunting undertaking. But making your own sausage is easier than you might think. Here is a step-by-step guide that explains how you can make delicious homemade sausage in your own kitchen.

1. Though you may purchase ground meat from your local butcher or grocer, it’s usually best to buy the cuts of meat you want to use to make sausage and grind it yourself. You may also be making sausage from cuts of deer meat (venison) or other wild game. The first step is to use a sharp knife to remove the meat from the bone, as well as any unwanted fat and any skin. Chop or slice up the meat you will be using into usable chunks for feeding into a meat grinder. Though you may be tempted to remove all of the fat, a great deal of sausage flavor comes from the fat, so leave a good portion of fat on the meat.
2. Using a food scale, weigh out the appropriate batch weights according to the sausage recipe you are using.
3. Grind each batch using the appropriate grinding plate for the type of sausage you are making. The grinding plates with smaller holes make finer ground meat, while the grinding plates with larger holes make a more coarse grind.