First attempt at making sausage

[new2smoking]

I made sausage for the first time on Sunday, no pic's but turned out pretty tasty for my first attemt. I let the meat cure overnight and then smoked the sausage for approx. 12 hours. My question is does the sausage need to be store in the fridge? Can I freeze them?

 

[pineywoods]

You can freeze them in fact thats what should be done with any thats not going to be eaten fairly soon. Personally I vacuum seal bags with the amount I figure we will use per meal that way when we want some we just grab a bag out of the freezer

 

[mballi3011]

I'm with Jerry (Pineywoods) on this one to I eat what I want to and then put the rest into a food savers bagsin single meal size and then freeze it. That way you don't have to eat 20lbs of sausage ion a couple of days. But then before you make anything else now you need to practice the Qview part of smoking. It helps your pride and confadence with smoking too.

 

[rbranstner]

Yep mine always go right into the vacuume bags then into the freezer.

 

[scarbelly]

I too and a vac sealer in portions - if you don't have a vac sealer it is well worth the $ to get one -

 

[que-ball]

Yes, definitely freeze what you don't eat right away, in meal-size portions. If you don't have a vacuum sealer, you can double wrap in saran wrap and then freezer paper. Both methods work equally well for me, and seem to take about the same amount of time.

 

[walle]

That's how we do our sausage as well.

Amen on the Q-View! Figure it out brother! You're posting too much stuff for us not so see it

 

[new2smoking]

I'll Vaccuum Pack and freeze, Thanks