Hi dhg! Great to hear that you have taken the first steps in making your own sausage. I'll bet soon you'll never be seen in the sausage section of your supermarke redzed Redzed, when I was doing some recon in the meat department a couple of weeks ago, I picked up a package of a very well known brat...

My question, is it ok to mix the spices in the water?, both recipes required water, so i figured that if I mixed the spices in the water it would be easier to get the spices thourghly mixed in with the meat. I was afraid that if I sprinkled the spices as best I could over the meat that it wouldn't g...

I'm curious as to what measuring system most of you use, measuring spoons or a scale, or both? I did a little recon in the kitchen and found that we (my wife) has a hodge podge of measuring spoons that I really don't trust and am thinking about getting a quality set of spoons. Also, in my reading, o...

Hi, my name is Rich, and am very new to sausage making. My wife has been grinding beef for hamburger for a few years and burned up her #5 grinder last fall and over this past Christmas bought a #12 LEM grinder. While I was looking it over I came across the stuffing tubes and thought making sausage m...