Sausages. Cooking Methods...

[Chipchopper]

Fry, grill or oven ?
I expect frying is the best way but what ever way, they always seem to make a lot of mess to clear up afterwards, so is there a way around this ?

I always go for a good quality banger, when I do buy them but I'm never really sure if I should prick them before, during cooking or not at all.

[Psybbo]

I really don't like the skin and some butcher's sausage skin is tough

[tonyav]

Got to ask, gollob. How do you know how old any sausages are in a butchers shop ?.

[jakep]

I buy from the butcher as well. Then I dry fry them gently in a non stick pan. Never prick!

[Tilly2]

When I was a child I used to eat raw sausages. My Grandma would hand me half a sausage and it was lovely. I wouldn't do that now.

[237SJ]

At the end of the day, sausages are full of crap. As was once said - earholes, eyeholes and ***. That`s what goes into sausages so it doesn`t really matter how you cook them, they are always going to be unhealthy.

[DTCwordfan]

some butcher's sausage skin is tough......the mind boggles.....

[DTCwordfan]

if you will eat Walls or equivalent, SJ, proper butcher's sausages are alright - I went on a course in France on making them over there, and we weren't using brains, offals, penises, ears or eyes...

[tonyav]

Tilly2
When I was a child I used to eat raw sausages. My Grandma would hand me half a sausage and it was lovely. I wouldn't do that now.


I used to do that to, Yilly. Mom always said that I'd get worms though.

[Tilly2]

Same here, Yont! Worms were a terrible threat.

[tonyav]

Yes, Yilly.

[237SJ]

Sausages are the way to use up the leftovers when you have used the best meat for other things. Same as Hogs Pudding. My mum used to make that (with pearl barley) when my Dad killed a pig. She was always adamant that she wouldn`t use the eyes or ears though as that was just a step too far for her. Still the same principle though - it`s a way to utilise the leftovers.

[Tilly2]

I have never ever had worms but I know/knew a lot of children who have. I have been very lucky.

[tonyav]

Neither have I.

[Canary42]

I never prick sausages, usually cook them on a rack in a halogen over, occasionally fry them.

[Tilly2]

In my teaching career, I have come across a lot of children with itchy bottoms.

[Stephen_G]

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[jourdain2]

I buy sausages from our local butcher (all meat used is from local farms and farm is named). I dry-fry them slowly and never, ever prick them. Can take over 20 mins. to cook a sausage properly - but they're wonderful! So glad to be back in England, sausages and bacon were in the top 10 of foods missed the most!

[Tilly2]

Do the not have sausages and bacon in France, jourdain?

[Graham-W]

No-one have braised sausage? Fry gently in a frying pan with thinly sliced onion. When onion starts to caramelise add water and a stock cube. Simmer gently for 15 mins and then thicken the gravy with cornflour. Serve as bangers and mash but do some bread and butter. You won't want to leave any gravy.

[EDDIE51]

I sometimes work in a 'pro' Kitchen, we cook 10 Kg of sausages & 15 Kg of bacon every day for breakfast. Always cooked in a hot oven 200 deg. Never prick the sausages. It would be impossible to fry that amount .