Cooking Sausages

[gollob]

After watching today's "Four In A Bed" they cooked sausages in the oven. Is this the best way to cook sausages or do you have alternatives?

[EcclesCake]

Cooking sausages isn't as easy as some think...........

[RATTER15]

Lol eccles, I dare say your butcher does use natural skins and I never said any different, I just said that after googling I cant find anything to suggest that chipolatas are in lambs skins and other sausages are in pig skins, and suggested that this maybe something your butcher does but others do not. I may be wrong!

[237SJ]

It doesn't matter how they are cooked - if you like them cooked in a certain way then you do and if you don't, you don't

[ethandron]

I always grill sausages, always have and always will. I like the way they sit nicely between the rungs of the grill and are easy to turn. As well as tasting nice of course ;)

[EDDIE51]

Islay, the first person into the kitchen at 6am turns on the ovens .
They are at full heat before we put any food into them . I have never heard of anyone putting food into a cold oven. They don't get turned off until service has finished for the day.

[RATTER15]

"Cooking sausages isn't as easy as some think..........."

not exactly difficult either are they!!

[Islay]

I was being sarcastic Eddie!!!
Chef humour you can't cook in a cold over so no need to mention a hot oven!!

[EDDIE51]

^ I can think of few things that could be easier to cook than sausages.

[EcclesCake]

Ratter,your googling must have been somewhat halfhearted as natural skins for songs/chipolatas really aren't that unusual. The

[EcclesCake]

As my autocorrect is taking over my posts I will wander off.

Couple of posters would benefit from a walk round the garden to clear their heads and make room for some sense.

[RATTER15]

Where have I said any different, of course natural skins are still used for making both!

Let me know when you get in from the garden. You losing the plot girl!!

[RATTER15]

All I am suggesting is that the same "NATURAL" skin is used for both types, not different ones.

I can explain it for you but I cant understand it for you! Strewth!!

[EcclesCake]

Girl?

Seriously, girl?

[ummmm]

I'm not a fan of sausages but if push came to shove I'd opt for the cheaper ones. I find butchers sausages too strong in flavour.

As I rarely eat them it doesn't really matter though.

[EcclesCake]

Good god that has to be the most patronising post I have seen on AB in a long while.

Hat off to you Ratter.

[gollob]

As a retired Butcher who has probably made a thousands of pounds of sausages I must say there are some pretty clued up people on here. To start large sausages are made with pig's intestines and chipolatas with lamb's, Besides natural casings there are synthetic skins mainly made by a firm called Devro casings.. One way not to cook sausages is putting them in the oven as this can make the skin very tough and chewy. Sometimes when we were making sausages we would drop a few in a large pot where we were cooking hams and I found boiled sausages really delicious.

[-Talbot-]

Better boiled in 'beer' than water.

[NoMercy]

I always cook them in the oven.

[jennyjoan]

The "boiled sausage" can be tasty but I do not like the texture of them in my mouth. Yuck.

[Mamyalynne]

Simmer then roast, beer sounds good.


Mine are never tough from the oven.