i have posted before that i was interested in a "Dakota water stuffer " and during the winter bought one
i used it for the 1st time this past Saturday on a 10lb test batch , the reason i called this thread a "public service announcement " is because for many of us "older folks " with bad shoulders that like to make sausage the water stuffer is the answer to our prayers
like most of you i had a ton of questions regarding these odd looking stuffers, but having bad shoulders i knew i had to find a better way to stuff sausage casings , so Saturday i set it up , filled it with ground sausage , held my breath and slowly opened thewater valve , i will swear on my dead mothers grave the 1st words that ran through my mind was "you've got to be kidding, it can't be this easy "......with no more effort than cracking open a small water valve , i was stuffing sausage , i was totally amazed at how little water pressure it was taking to make it work . it was just that easy , the water doesn't get anywhere near the meat in the tube thanks to the double o-rings ,it will stuff the casings as fast OR slow as you could ever want it to
now for how i set it up : our house does not have a facet that i could connect a hose to so i ran a garden hose from outside through the kitchen window to the stuffer ( this takes about 1 1/2 -2 minutes to do ) i did not have a way to drain the stuffer where i wanted to use it , so i got the big turkey fryer pot to catch the discharge water, then i found and old garden hose and cut it so that i had about a 5 foot drain hose and connected it to the drain valve of the stuffer ( worked like charm ) after stuffing a tad more than 10 lbs of sausage the drain pot was no more than 1/4 full
IF you are like me and don't want to have sore tired arms and shoulders from cranking the other types of stuffers
buy one of these and say goodbye to all that hard work !!
i used it for the 1st time this past Saturday on a 10lb test batch , the reason i called this thread a "public service announcement " is because for many of us "older folks " with bad shoulders that like to make sausage the water stuffer is the answer to our prayers
like most of you i had a ton of questions regarding these odd looking stuffers, but having bad shoulders i knew i had to find a better way to stuff sausage casings , so Saturday i set it up , filled it with ground sausage , held my breath and slowly opened thewater valve , i will swear on my dead mothers grave the 1st words that ran through my mind was "you've got to be kidding, it can't be this easy "......with no more effort than cracking open a small water valve , i was stuffing sausage , i was totally amazed at how little water pressure it was taking to make it work . it was just that easy , the water doesn't get anywhere near the meat in the tube thanks to the double o-rings ,it will stuff the casings as fast OR slow as you could ever want it to
now for how i set it up : our house does not have a facet that i could connect a hose to so i ran a garden hose from outside through the kitchen window to the stuffer ( this takes about 1 1/2 -2 minutes to do ) i did not have a way to drain the stuffer where i wanted to use it , so i got the big turkey fryer pot to catch the discharge water, then i found and old garden hose and cut it so that i had about a 5 foot drain hose and connected it to the drain valve of the stuffer ( worked like charm ) after stuffing a tad more than 10 lbs of sausage the drain pot was no more than 1/4 full
IF you are like me and don't want to have sore tired arms and shoulders from cranking the other types of stuffers
buy one of these and say goodbye to all that hard work !!
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