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Best Make Of Sausage
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I23
13-03-2013
Not necesarily the flavour but which make of sausage does it for you?

I have tried the Tesco Finest and just do not like them. Also tried Jamie Olivers and did not like them.

The closest I've come to getting a decent 'non butcher' sausage is Riverside Premium pork.

Anyone have any recommendations?
jonnyinscotland
13-03-2013
Crombies of Edinburgh.. though they are a butcher.
walterwhite
13-03-2013
Debbie & Andrews and Supreme Sausages for me.
SHAFT
13-03-2013
Black Farmer or Heaps Simply Sausages.
Caldari
13-03-2013
My local farm shop, and also here - http://www.westingourmet.co.uk/ & http://www.donaldrussell.com/
Jambo_c
13-03-2013
For non-butchers or farm shop I do actually quite like Tesco Finest sausages, never had the "plain" ones but some of the flavoured ones are nice. Had some nice lamb ones too.

I do actually want to get my own sausage making machine, my wife thinks I'm a bit mad though.
indianwells
13-03-2013
Best i've ever had are Lincolnshire sausages from John Pettit butchers in Grimsby. They have an online shop as well. A Toad in the Hole made with them is to die for.
mackara
13-03-2013
Paul Rankin beef and black pepper, available from most supermarket chains
I23
13-03-2013
Originally Posted by Jambo_c:
“For non-butchers or farm shop I do actually quite like Tesco Finest sausages, never had the "plain" ones but some of the flavoured ones are nice. Had some nice lamb ones too.

I do actually want to get my own sausage making machine, my wife thinks I'm a bit mad though.”

I bought a Sausage making machine, however my ambition was far in excess of my skill level

I tried to make sausages like my dad used to buy from a butcher, we always had them on a Saturday morning after we had come back from shopping. This was in the 70's and he would literally have a 50 mile round trip going from one town to another to get the best sausages, the best bread, the best vegtables and they all were'nt in the same towns and it took him ages.

Anyway we'd come home and he would cook up the Snorkers and he'd open up a tin of tomatoes and add salt, pepper, garlic salt a bit of sugar and boil them down, he'd cut doorstops of bread with loads of butter and sometimes after frying the snorkers he would add them to the tomatoes to boil for a while.

He'd then serve up and we'd dip the bread in the sauce absolutely delicious.

I still cook it now for brekkie but it comes nowhere near the standard of me dads.
marc822
13-03-2013
Not richmond as they are anything but pork. I mean no one knows what they are, they are not allowed to say 8 pork sausages, they can only say 8 fresh sausages. lmao.
mackara
13-03-2013
Originally Posted by marc822:
“Not richmond as they are anything but pork. I mean no one knows what they are, they are not allowed to say 8 pork sausages, they can only say 8 fresh sausages. lmao.”

Richmonds sausages are 42% pork, one of the highest pork contents of supermarket sausages
grimtales1
13-03-2013
42% IMO a decent sausage should have about twice that amount of pork in it!
MICH78
13-03-2013
Originally Posted by grimtales1:
“42% IMO a decent sausage should have about twice that amount of pork in it!”

Yeah, 42% would put me off! Tesco Finest is over 85% but i have not tried many of the flavours.

Years ago i really liked M&S beef sausages, but i haven't had them for years and don't know the % of meat content.
degsyhufc
13-03-2013
Debbie & Andrews are nice although i've never tried the standard pork variety.
SilvioDante
13-03-2013
Originally Posted by marc822:
“Not richmond as they are anything but pork. I mean no one knows what they are, they are not allowed to say 8 pork sausages, they can only say 8 fresh sausages. lmao.”

They should be included in the "mechanically recovered meat" thread along with hot dogs and kebabs
SilvioDante
13-03-2013
Originally Posted by walterwhite:
“Debbie & Andrews and Supreme Sausages for me.”

Ooh, a step up from your usual hot dogs.
mackara
13-03-2013
Originally Posted by grimtales1:
“42% IMO a decent sausage should have about twice that amount of pork in it!”

Indeed, but as a budget priced sausage they are better than most supermarket own brand budget sausages, Asda smartprice sausages for example only contain 34% meat. like everything else you get what you pay for.
Caldari
13-03-2013
Sainsburys' own range sausages are ~60%.
mackara
13-03-2013
Originally Posted by Caldari:
“Sainsburys' own range sausages are ~60%.”

Their budget range is only 32% meat.
Jol44
13-03-2013
Linda Mccartney
Caldari
13-03-2013
Originally Posted by mackara:
“Their budget range is only 32% meat.”

I never buy budget range sausages. I've travelled quite extensively in my time, and as such have eaten many weird and wonderful things, but budget sausages are not something I'd ever eat. Well, not unless it's a sausage butty on drunken stroll back from pub after the match.
stud u like
13-03-2013
Originally Posted by mackara:
“Richmonds sausages are 42% pork, one of the highest pork contents of supermarket sausages”

Really? I buy 97 percent pork sausages in the supermarket.
mackara
13-03-2013
Originally Posted by stud u like:
“Really? I buy 97 percent pork sausages in the supermarket.”

Likewise I try to buy the highest meat content but I was referring to the budget low meat content range of sausages like richmonds and budget own brands, the legal cut off point between calling the product a sausage and a banger seems to be 42% but I could not eat any of the finely blended sausages no matter how much meat they have, it is the texture of the finely processed sausages that I do not like.
Pink Knight
13-03-2013
Originally Posted by SHAFT:
“Black Farmer or Heaps Simply Sausages.”

Black Farmer are not bad. Although I tried a related brand called Black Farmer's Daughter Chipolata's and they were way too full of herbs.

That's the main problem I have with supermarket sausage. Either tough skins or too much herb or pepper.

Jimmy's Farm sausage from Tesco are not bad, but £2.99 a pack, not cheap.
I try to get at least 70% pork. There's a chain of cooked meat shops in Manchester called Gabbotts Farm, their sausage isn't bad.
If I'm there, a pork butchers called Stanforth's in Skipton.
mackara
13-03-2013
another fav is vegetable roll, It can be bought as a large 3"thick sausage or sliced in the same way as white/black pudding., made from beef brisket and rib trimmings with carrot, onion and leak added with a coarse texture.
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