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Post by strippitman on Dec 31, 2012 14:26:46 GMT -5
I gave my 5 lb. sausage stuffer to my brother for Christmas and here is what I replaced it with...I can't wait for it to arrive on my doorstep. www.dakotahsausagestuffer.com/This particular stuffer connects to your kitchen faucet and is powered by water pressure. It holds double the amount of meat as my former stuffer held. I can't wait to put this thing in action. Here it is in action: |
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Post by Greenedog on Dec 31, 2012 21:12:25 GMT -5
Sweet! Hope it works as good as advertised.
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Post by Greenedog on Jan 1, 2013 12:29:12 GMT -5
Matt, watching that video brought back some memories. When I worked at CP Foodservice in Florida we made our own sausage and had a hydraulic stuffer. I can't remember the brand, but it was something like this... That thing was sweet! We had a young guy that could work that thing like a wizard. Only bad part was sometimes he would blow a casing and it sounded like a gun going off in that meat cutting room.  |
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Post by strippitman on Jan 2, 2013 8:49:00 GMT -5
Only bad part was sometimes he would blow a casing and it sounded like a gun going off in that meat cutting room. I'll bet that was hilarious everytime it happened!  |
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Post by Greenedog on Jan 2, 2013 20:29:30 GMT -5
Only bad part was sometimes he would blow a casing and it sounded like a gun going off in that meat cutting room. I'll bet that was hilarious everytime it happened! I thought it was. There was some salty old cusses that worked there...guys all the way up into their 80's who had retired from the meat business in places like New York and Chicago and then decided they were bored down there in Florida and still wanted to work. They would berate that kid so bad that you couldn't help but feel sorry for him. |
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Post by strippitman on Jan 24, 2013 9:47:41 GMT -5
Well, I finally put the new stuffer to work over the past weekend. This thing is the cats arse! I had a little trouble at first getting the "bugs" worked out. It is a water powered stuffer and I had some issues with improper fittings that I had purchased which caused me to have some pretty severe leaks when I first tried to operate it. It connects to a kitchen sink faucet and I used a clamp-on fitting on the first attempt and as I was pressuring up the water lines the pressure blew the clamp-on fitting right off the faucet! It sounded like a gun going off and there was water everywhere. Luckily, even though I was pretty aggravated at that point, me and my dad were able to laugh about it and we decided to put the stuffing portion of the sausagemaking process on hold for a day until I could get the proper fittings. The following day, I picked up a fitting that threads into the sink faucet and then a hose can screw onto that. I put that on and VOILA! everything worked - leak free. Now it's time to operate the stuffer! I was a little tentative at first because it is just weird operating a stuffer that functions under pressure. So, I took it pretty slow at first but after a couple of minutes I felt pretty comfortable and cranked up the speed. This thing can crank some serious sausage in a hurry! Wow! Amazing! And it stuffs everything perfectly. The design of it does not allow air to get trapped inside which is a problem for vertical stuffers. Air makes the casings explode if there is too much of it. Here are some pics of the stuffer and the finished products: Ready to start stuffing (before I knew I had water leaks)  In action   Polish Sausage   From left to right: Mexican chorizo, bratwurst, polish sausage  I panfried the leftover portions that were at the end of the stuffer. The chorizo was absolutely awesome! The brats had great texture but the flavor was lacking a little. The polish sausage reaked of garlic but really the garlic taste wasn't near as strong as I was expecting...it was really pretty tasty! |
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Post by goosepondmonster on Jan 24, 2013 10:22:19 GMT -5
I love me some chorizo.
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Post by Greenedog on Jan 24, 2013 11:35:30 GMT -5
Awesome!! Glad it worked for you.  |
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Just another night at work for me and Monty will be back here again bright and early. 
