Pre tubed casings

[johnyd]

I just bought some hog casings from a butcher ( while I was out of town), the ones he sold me where pre tubed and they were left over from their production that day.

So they came in a bag, already washed and ready to just slide on the stuffer......... trouble is i have some out of town stuff to do and I wont be using them for a while. 

How should I store them? should I drain the water and place in salt? or do I need to pull the plastic former off?

 

[pops6927]

Just drain any water and re-salt them with sea or non-iodized salt.  I use these all the time, I get them from Syracuse Casings:
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[boykjo]

 

[johnyd]

Thanks guys, that was what I had hoped.

 

[ak1]

Sorry, if this is a dumb question, but what are pre tubed casings? I've never seen them in my area.

 

[big dee]

Sorry, if this is a dumb question, but what are pre tubed casings? I've never seen them in my area.

I would also like to know this. Would these be better than the pre packaged ones. I am looking for not so tough casings after smoking brats.

Dennis

 

[smokinhusker]

Thanks for the link Pops, I think I'm going to give them a try.

 

[johnyd]

Pre tubed means they have been fed on to a plastic hollow tube. You slide the tube over the sausage stuffer horn, grasp the sausage casing and pull back ( retract) the plastic tube.

Vhalla! you now have sausage casing threaded onto your stuffer ready to go.

If my explanation sounds poor please add a comment

 

[ak1]

Thanks. I've never seen those. Too bad, they would be handy.