posted 14 years ago
I have just looked sausages up on -you tube- whatching people make sausages has made me feel a bit sick as whatching the dirty jobs man help to make slops for pigs out of food we leave on the sides of our platees did a day or two ago some bits of farming get more messy than even I like.
The video that shows how to clean the intestines best was an Amerian video called -home made italian sausage-. The man in the video leaves the intestines to soak a bit in water, in a spanish video of making chorizo, they advised soaking in water and a bit of vinegar, and then put the end of the intestine over a funnel end and poured water into the intestine through the funnel and washed the water through the intestin. He did not spend hours washing water through though, it was one quick wash through.
In the Spanish videos ladies were washing the intestines with their hands, in old saucepans full of water. They appeared to be rubbing them gently with the pads of their fingers, they were not scraping them. Maybe they were coaxing water into one end of the sausage and then pushing the bubble of water through the skin till it came out the other end.
There was a video of one man attaching the skin to the end of the tap and running water through the skin from the tap.
I whatched a man with an enormouse pile of intestines pull out first one long skin and then another untill all had been pulled out from the big pile of intestines and set out in a line more or less, prior to cleaning i suppose.
The comment on one video is that it is normal to buy the intestines cleaned and dried, which only need soaking. Maybe more normal here were they still, though less and less, kill their own pig and make hams and sausages and blood pudding and salt back fat deliciouse for pates i suppose pates are gourmet junk food. Modern day pigs are a bit lean though.
I whatched these videos if you put in to you tube the the first phrase in Spanish the others come up. the videos are demonstrations of sausage making more than explainations so you can whatch them though they are in Spanish.
The word chorizo is the word for the Spanish sausage or salami flavored with usually mild chilli powder. here are the spanish titles that give you a lot of sausage making videos some of which are south American.
como se hacen chorizos.
como prepara longaniza.
Como hacer chorizo.Chorizo casero cesareliseo. This is the video with The person who used a plastic bottle to stuff the meat into the skins with .
processo amarre de tripas.
They are worth whatching though you don't speak Spanish. They more show what they are doing than explain it and they show some pretty authentic and not very rich people bits of life so you see life through them.. Of course sauchage making is a moment for dirty jokes or embarased moans from one grandmother about how embarrassing the process was. I remember an Andalucian friend of mine saying her mother would not let her into the room were the women were making sausages but she would listen from the stairs and hear them say things like, "then i just tweak him like this", him being their husband so it was a perfectly legal tweak..
One of the videos has a usefull trick for those who don't have a machine for speezing sausage meat into skins. The man used a plastic squash bottle, say a family sized coca cola bottle with the bottom chopped off it. He put the sausage skin over the bottle neck and the sausage meat into the bottom of the bottle and pushed it through into the sausage case with his fist.
