It always takes longer than anticipated.
As soon as you start mixing the meat with your hands, your nose will itch.
You can't put 5 1/2 pounds of sausage into a 5# stuffer! no you can't!
No one seems to understand that making sausage costs money, they expect you to make it for them free!
The first time you put a natural casing on the stuffing tube, you giggled, yes, you did.
Making sausage while drinking alcohol, can make for some strange recipes! So I've heard.
You can't convince some people that natural casings are ok to eat.
No one believes you when you tell them how collagen casings are made.
Your beer frig, is now a sausage frig as well, and boy does it smell good! No beer frig? Keep making sausage, you'll get one!
At some point, you've mixed the sausage up and stuffed it, and then realized that you left out a key ingredient, or the cure! If you haven't, you will...
Pepper corns and mustard seeds, when spilled, will be found weeks later, regardless of how well you sweep or clean.
Someone you give sausage to, will tell you how to make it better next time, but they aren't willing to come over and assist in making it.
At some point, someone will question you about the pinkness of the meat, they'll never believe it's fully cooked.
If you make sausage sticks, you will eventually be asked if you can duplicate the original slim Jim's. They don't understand when you say that you'd rather not!
Upon sampling the first sausage you made, you're amazed at how much better it is than the store bought stuff!
No matter how hard you try, you just can't seem to duplicate "the sausage" you had as a kid from the local shop.
You can never gauge the amount of casing required when the stuffer is almost empty.
Your wife/husband/partner just don't understand WHY you want to play with raw meat. Once they sample the end results, they begin to come around.
You always "need" more "stuff"....
You will NEVER find the perfect recipe...
Ok, what did I miss?
As soon as you start mixing the meat with your hands, your nose will itch.
You can't put 5 1/2 pounds of sausage into a 5# stuffer! no you can't!
No one seems to understand that making sausage costs money, they expect you to make it for them free!
The first time you put a natural casing on the stuffing tube, you giggled, yes, you did.
Making sausage while drinking alcohol, can make for some strange recipes! So I've heard.
You can't convince some people that natural casings are ok to eat.
No one believes you when you tell them how collagen casings are made.
Your beer frig, is now a sausage frig as well, and boy does it smell good! No beer frig? Keep making sausage, you'll get one!
At some point, you've mixed the sausage up and stuffed it, and then realized that you left out a key ingredient, or the cure! If you haven't, you will...
Pepper corns and mustard seeds, when spilled, will be found weeks later, regardless of how well you sweep or clean.
Someone you give sausage to, will tell you how to make it better next time, but they aren't willing to come over and assist in making it.
At some point, someone will question you about the pinkness of the meat, they'll never believe it's fully cooked.
If you make sausage sticks, you will eventually be asked if you can duplicate the original slim Jim's. They don't understand when you say that you'd rather not!
Upon sampling the first sausage you made, you're amazed at how much better it is than the store bought stuff!
No matter how hard you try, you just can't seem to duplicate "the sausage" you had as a kid from the local shop.
You can never gauge the amount of casing required when the stuffer is almost empty.
Your wife/husband/partner just don't understand WHY you want to play with raw meat. Once they sample the end results, they begin to come around.
You always "need" more "stuff"....
You will NEVER find the perfect recipe...
Ok, what did I miss?
