Finally done with sausage!

[MaryB]

I had a KS Pro model with steel gears. Grinding meat bogged the motor down and burned it out. End of grinding meat with it. Put in a new motor and still use it for making bread and pizza dough(it BARELY can handle my pizza dough, very stiff dough...).

[almar]

I made some with UMAI dry bags a few times. I takes up some room in your fridge but you don't need special curing chambers. You just make the sausage and place them in your fridge for a few weeks. It makes a fantastic product.

[Winger Ed.]

. You just make the sausage and place them in your fridge for a few weeks. It makes a fantastic product.

I've done that.
They're slow, and you need to use that special salt for preserving meat or making dried sausage,
but frost free refrigerators do make a pretty good 'redneck dehydrator'.

[cephas53]

Not to step on OP's good work but canned sausage is also an alternative.
I raise a few pigs every year. We do the whole 9 yards with them. Slaughter, butcher, smoke bacons and hams.
Can the majority of the sausage. Although I do throw quite a bit of prime meat into the mix.
Use an old enterprise grinder, with some redneck engineering to an electric motor.
It's as good coming out as it was going in. Do enough to last the year until the next batch.

[Winger Ed.]

I recently found out how fragile the plastic tubes are that go on a sausage stuffer,
and how crazy expensive the Stainless Steel ones are to replace them with.

If you have the same issue-- replacement tubes are pretty easy to make:
I made this one from a piece of 3/4 water pipe type Copper tubing.

Hold it lossely in a vice with the end on the work bench.
Put the round end of a ball peen hammer on the top end and hit it firmly with another hammer to get a flare.
Peen down the edge as flat as ya can with a hammer.
Put the stuffer tube retainer resting on the vice jaws, with the output end hanging down on the bench.
Hammer the flared/flattened edge of the tube with a big socket.
Trim off & de-burr the bottom end since it will get a little beat up and dinged.

Going slow, and not getting in a hurry, the Copper drifted down flat enough it works
and seals well without needing a 'O' ring or rubber washer.

For the little thin tubes- you can make this one, cut it off and solder on a 3/4 to 1/2 adapter
and piece of 1/2" Copper tubing.

[shaner]

Looks fantastic

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