Tasso Time!!!

[mosparky]

awesome, I got a bunch in the freezer that need a purpose.

 

[Gwanger]

The good thing about making tasso while cutting up meat for sausage is that I can pick and choose the best cuts for the tasso. Sausage don't care if it gets ends and misshaped pieces, it's gonna be ground up anyways! I also trimmed the fat cap off the butt prior to slicing and set aside 9# of fat to add in the sausage. Less I got to buy later.

Inda, what is your meat to fat ratio for your venison sausage since venison is so lean

 

[indaswamp]

20~25% fat.

 

[Gwanger]

20~25% fat.

wher do you buy pork fat, last time I bought they charged me same price as pork shoulder and I am sure they just dug it out of fat cans in cutting room

 

[indaswamp]

I buy it locally at small A&G grocery stores. The butchers keep it in stock for in house sausage making. The stores bulk up on fat to sell after the hunting season is over for people making sausage. I get it for $0.69/lb. normally. They also carry back fat cut in 1" strips with the skin still attached for making cajun cracklins. I can get that for $0.99/lb. but I have to trim the skins...not a problem for me with a very sharp filet knife-it's like filleting a fish. I keep the skins for making boudin and head cheese.

 

[pc farmer]

I buy it locally at small A&G grocery stores. The butchers keep it in stock for in house sausage making. The stores bulk up on fat to sell after the hunting season is over for people making sausage. I get it for $0.69/lb. normally. They also carry back fat cut in 1" strips with the skin still attached for making cajun cracklins. I can get that for $0.99/lb. but I have to trim the skins...not a problem for me with a very sharp filet knife-it's like filleting a fish. I keep the skins for making boudin and head cheese.

Would love to have a store like that here.

 

[indaswamp]

Back in Feb. when we processed all the deer, I bought 42lbs. of pork Boston butt trim fat for $0.79/lb. for all the sausages we made. Paid about $35 bucks with tax for it.

 

[indaswamp]

Would love to have a store like that here.

No butcher shops where you can buy fat?

 

[pc farmer]

No butcher shops where you can buy fat?

Not anywhere close. So I made sure when I butchered I got back fat. I have 10 lbs I think.

 

[indaswamp]

Gotcha...you must live back in a remote area in PA....

 

[indaswamp]

wher do you buy pork fat, last time I bought they charged me same price as pork shoulder and I am sure they just dug it out of fat cans in cutting room

Check with any asian or mexican markets in your area...you will more than likely be able to buy what you need there for a great price....

 

[Gwanger]

I buy it locally at small A&G grocery stores. The butchers keep it in stock for in house sausage making. The stores bulk up on fat to sell after the hunting season is over for people making sausage. I get it for $0.69/lb. normally. They also carry back fat cut in 1" strips with the skin still attached for making cajun cracklins. I can get that for $0.99/lb. but I have to trim the skins...not a problem for me with a very sharp filet knife-it's like filleting a fish. I keep the skins for making boudin and head cheese.

Don't have any small grocers anymore, all replaced by big box stores, Jewel, Meier, Walmart, Butera and one custom butcher sells prime beef for a big price.I have been looking for veal shoulder for German sausage, 6 or 7 $ per pound.Very cost prohibitive.