| No One |
Been having fun doing sausages with my new meat grinder. However, trying to
get that pig casing over the funnel attachement has taken most of the fun
out of it. I soaked them overnight to get most of the salt out. Finding and
getting the hole started is bad enough but it took me 45 minutes to thread
on 4 feet of casing today. I was so tired of pushing and trying to get it to
just move that I was losing interest by the time I got finished.
Any ideas on an easy way to thread the casing over the funnel feeder?
Joe
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| zxcvbob |
No One wrote:
> Been having fun doing sausages with my new meat grinder. However, trying to
> get that pig casing over the funnel attachement has taken most of the fun
> out of it. I soaked them overnight to get most of the salt out. Finding and
> getting the hole started is bad enough but it took me 45 minutes to thread
> on 4 feet of casing today. I was so tired of pushing and trying to get it to
> just move that I was losing interest by the time I got finished.
>
> Any ideas on an easy way to thread the casing over the funnel feeder?
>
> Joe
>
>
You *pull* it on, while it's still wet. It helps if there a bubble of
water in the casing. It should take about a minute to completely fill
the funnel with casing.
I don't ever soak the casings that long.
Bob
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| Edwin Pawlowski |
"No One" <NoOne@123.com> wrote in message
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> Been having fun doing sausages with my new meat grinder. However, trying
to
> get that pig casing over the funnel attachement has taken most of the fun
> out of it. I soaked them overnight to get most of the salt out. Finding
and
> getting the hole started is bad enough but it took me 45 minutes to thread
> on 4 feet of casing today. I was so tired of pushing and trying to get it
to
> just move that I was losing interest by the time I got finished.
>
> Any ideas on an easy way to thread the casing over the funnel feeder?
>
> Joe
Are you using the correct size tube? It should slide on in seconds, not
minutes. Take the wet casing and open the end. Slide the open end over the
tube and pull it back a bit. Now slide the rest on a couple of inches at a
time.
Maybe you soaked them too long. I rinse and soak about 10 minutes.
Ed
esp@snet.net
http://pages.cthome.net/edhome
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| PENMART01 |
> zxcvbob writes:
>
>No One wrote:
>> Been having fun doing sausages with my new meat grinder. However, trying
>>to get that casing over the funnel has taken most of the fun out of it.
>>
>>I soaked them overnight
>
>You *pull* it on, while it's still wet. It helps if there a bubble.
>
>I don't ever soak the casings that long.
I do, when I'm wearing them.
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| Kswck |
"No One" <NoOne@123.com> wrote in message
news:kpCdnTSa0I-XdIvcRVn-pQ@comcast.com...
> Been having fun doing sausages with my new meat grinder. However, trying
to
> get that pig casing over the funnel attachement has taken most of the fun
> out of it. I soaked them overnight to get most of the salt out. Finding
and
> getting the hole started is bad enough but it took me 45 minutes to thread
> on 4 feet of casing today. I was so tired of pushing and trying to get it
to
> just move that I was losing interest by the time I got finished.
>
> Any ideas on an easy way to thread the casing over the funnel feeder?
>
> Joe
>
>
Run some fresh water through them before sliding onto the nozzle. And don't
use 10+ feet at a time. Use 6 or so. You will have to thread it more often,
but it gets easier with practice.
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| Peter Aitken |
"No One" <NoOne@123.com> wrote in message
news:kpCdnTSa0I-XdIvcRVn-pQ@comcast.com...
> Been having fun doing sausages with my new meat grinder. However, trying
to
> get that pig casing over the funnel attachement has taken most of the fun
> out of it. I soaked them overnight to get most of the salt out. Finding
and
> getting the hole started is bad enough but it took me 45 minutes to thread
> on 4 feet of casing today. I was so tired of pushing and trying to get it
to
> just move that I was losing interest by the time I got finished.
>
> Any ideas on an easy way to thread the casing over the funnel feeder?
>
> Joe
>
Getting a smaller funnel is one idea. Another is to immerse the funnel and
casing in water while doing it. You did run water through the casing first,
right? Soaking overnight is not necessary - a coulpe of hours is enough.
--
Peter Aitken
Remove the crap from my email address before using.
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| zxcvbob |
PENMART01 wrote:
>>zxcvbob writes:
>>
>>No One wrote:
>>
>>>Been having fun doing sausages with my new meat grinder. However, trying
>>>to get that casing over the funnel has taken most of the fun out of it.
>>>
>>>I soaked them overnight
>>
>>You *pull* it on, while it's still wet. It helps if there a bubble.
>>
>>I don't ever soak the casings that long.
>
>
> I do, when I'm wearing them.
>
That must be the extra small lamb casings? ;-)
Best regards,
Bob
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| MARY1313 |
>
>> Any ideas on an easy way to thread the casing over the funnel feeder?
>>
My parents would rinse the casings well, then blow into one end to untangle the
casing. The wet, straight casings should be easy to slide onto the funnel like
putting on panty hose!
--Mary
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| No One |
Now, there's an idea! I'll attempt that one also! :-) One of these
suggestions is bound to work.
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"MARY1313" <mary1313@aol.com> wrote in message
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> >
> >> Any ideas on an easy way to thread the casing over the funnel feeder?
> >>
>
> My parents would rinse the casings well, then blow into one end to
untangle the
> casing. The wet, straight casings should be easy to slide onto the funnel
like
> putting on panty hose!
> --Mary
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| No One |
Thanks for all the suggestions. I'm beginning to think that maybe it's the
funnel size that came with machine. It's really difficult to get moving on.
Years ago, when just fooling around I used my regular funnel and hand
stuffed some sausage. The casing went on much more easily as I remembered.
I soaked them overnight (still experimenting)because last time they were too
salty. I will also try doing it underwater with both to see if that makes a
difference.
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"Peter Aitken" <paitken@CRAPnc.rr.com> wrote in message
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> "No One" <NoOne@123.com> wrote in message
> news:kpCdnTSa0I-XdIvcRVn-pQ@comcast.com...
> > Been having fun doing sausages with my new meat grinder. However,
trying
> to
> > get that pig casing over the funnel attachement has taken most of the
fun
> > out of it. I soaked them overnight to get most of the salt out. Finding
> and
> > getting the hole started is bad enough but it took me 45 minutes to
thread
> > on 4 feet of casing today. I was so tired of pushing and trying to get
it
> to
> > just move that I was losing interest by the time I got finished.
> >
> > Any ideas on an easy way to thread the casing over the funnel feeder?
> >
> > Joe
> >
>
> Getting a smaller funnel is one idea. Another is to immerse the funnel and
> casing in water while doing it. You did run water through the casing
first,
> right? Soaking overnight is not necessary - a coulpe of hours is enough.
>
>
> --
> Peter Aitken
>
> Remove the crap from my email address before using.
>
>
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| PENMART01 |
> "No One" writes:
>
>Thanks for all the suggestions. I'm beginning to think that maybe it's the
>funnel size that came with machine. It's really difficult to get moving on.
Finally someone understands the plight of us big boys regarding condoms... you
do realize that sausage casing is readilly available in various diameters, and
now condoms too, finally!
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| Roy Jose Lorr |
PENMART01 wrote:
> > "No One" writes:
> >
> >Thanks for all the suggestions. I'm beginning to think that maybe it's the
> >funnel size that came with machine. It's really difficult to get moving on.
>
> Finally someone understands the plight of us big boys regarding condoms... you
> do realize that sausage casing is readilly available in various diameters, and
> now condoms too, finally!
I guess that makes you a suitable match for Boxcar Bertha.
--
The last stage of
utopian sentimentalism
is homicidal mania.
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| Mickey Zalusky |
No One wrote:
> Been having fun doing sausages with my new meat grinder. However, trying to
> get that pig casing over the funnel attachement has taken most of the fun
> out of it. I soaked them overnight to get most of the salt out. Finding and
> getting the hole started is bad enough but it took me 45 minutes to thread
> on 4 feet of casing today. I was so tired of pushing and trying to get it to
> just move that I was losing interest by the time I got finished.
>
> Any ideas on an easy way to thread the casing over the funnel feeder?
>
> Joe
>
>
Fat, not water will be helpful. Here's what my grandparents always did
before making approx. 50 lbs. of Italian sausage every year. Before
putting the casing onto the funnel, run some meat through the grinder
and stop just as the meat begins coming out of the funnel tip. The meat
should only protrude past the funnel tip enough to create a rounded
edge. Now, when you slide the casing onto the funnel, the meat will not
get caught on the funnel edge and the fat from the meat will coat the
inside of the casing just enough so it will slide easily onto the funnel.
Mickey
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| Gregory Morrow |
MARY1313 wrote:
> My parents would rinse the casings well, then blow into one end to
untangle the
> casing. The wet, straight casings should be easy to slide onto the funnel
like
> putting on panty hose!
Back in the late 1800's German immigrant Julius Schmid did the same thing.
He worked at a NYC slaughterhouse and finally got the bright idea of
marketing all those sausage casings as condoms. By 1900 he had founded the
Julius Schmid company, and he was known as the "Condom King" (this was
despite the Comstock laws that forbade advertising condoms as anything but
"disease preventives"). Rubber condoms had been available since Charles
Goodyear invented the rubber vulcanisation process in 1847 (and lambskin
condoms since at least ancient times, Casanova first mentioned them in his
writings in the 1600's...), but Schimid's "Fourex" lambskin condoms were the
ne ultra plus of the condom world...Schmid also produced the "Sheik" brand
of rubber condom (piggybacking on the Rudolph Valentino craze of the
20's)....
You can read all about in _Devices And Desires_ by Andrea Tone, a recent
history of birth control in the United States...it is a fascinating
read....before the Comstock Laws of 1873 (Alfred Comstock was a
fundamentalist xian who pushed through legislation forbidding advertising,
dissemination, and mailing of contraceptives and abortaficients through the
US Mails...and ****o in general, too) contraceptives were advertised in even
_The New York Times_ and sold on city street corners...licentiousness was
the rule 'o the day in early and mid - 19th century America.....
The Schmid company was bought out a few years back by London International,
the UK - based company which produces the redoubtable "Durex" brands of
condoms....
The "Fourex" skin condom (in the blue capsule - "FOLDED, not ROLLED"...) is
no longer produced, the only skin condom left in all the world is the Trojan
"Naturalamb" brand. A crummy substitute IMNSHO....Fourex was a true first -
class product....
Didja know that all the lamb caecums used for condoms come from the bonny
isle of New Zealand...and that they are processed in the Dominican
Republic......
--
Best
Greg "SO THERE...!!!"
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| blake murphy |
On 09 Aug 2004 16:05:25 GMT, mary1313@aol.com (MARY1313) wrote:
>>
>>> Any ideas on an easy way to thread the casing over the funnel feeder?
>>>
>
>My parents would rinse the casings well, then blow into one end to untangle the
>casing. The wet, straight casings should be easy to slide onto the funnel like
>putting on panty hose!
>--Mary
but i've never put on panty hose! no...wait...never mind.
your pal,
blake
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| notbob |
On 2004-08-09, Kswck <kswck@optonline.net> wrote:
> Run some fresh water through them before sliding onto the nozzle. And don't
> use 10+ feet at a time. Use 6 or so. You will have to thread it more often,
> but it gets easier with practice.
We used to do a group effort every year and put up 600-700lbs of sausage in one
day. The casings, which were 8-10 ft long, were soaked overnight and were
still in water right up till the time one was put on the forcing tube
(SS). They were easily a 1/4" bigger than the tube and slid on with little
or no effort. All 10 ft would slide on in just a few seconds.
One point. Commercial sausage stuffers do not use a tapered forcing tubes.
The tubes are straight. I can see where tapered tubes would be a real PIA.
Another issue, grinders make lousy stuffers. Grind the meat first, then use
a stuffer. A good stuffer for the price is from:
http://www.harborfreight.com/
....do a word search for sausage. For $25, you can get stuffer and different
size tubes.
nb
nb
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| Kswck |
"PENMART01" <penmart01@aol.como> wrote in message
news:20040809153009.19192.00003071@mb-m06.aol.com...
> > "No One" writes:
> >
> >Thanks for all the suggestions. I'm beginning to think that maybe it's
the
> >funnel size that came with machine. It's really difficult to get moving
on.
>
> Finally someone understands the plight of us big boys regarding condoms...
you
> do realize that sausage casing is readilly available in various diameters,
and
> now condoms too, finally!
>
Yeah, just don't rip them when you pulling them over your head Sheldon.
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| PENMART01 |
>> Finally someone understands the plight of us big boys regarding condoms...
>you
>> do realize that sausage casing is readilly available in various diameters,
>and
>> now condoms too, finally!
>
>
>Yeah, just don't rip them when you pulling them over your head Sheldon.
No problem, with my endowment I often just pull a shower cap over the head.
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| Steve Calvin |
PENMART01 wrote:
>>>Finally someone understands the plight of us big boys regarding condoms...
>>
>>you
>>
>>>do realize that sausage casing is readilly available in various diameters,
>>
>>and
>>
>>>now condoms too, finally!
>>
>>
>>Yeah, just don't rip them when you pulling them over your head Sheldon.
>
>
> No problem, with my endowment I often just pull a shower cap over the head.
>
>
>
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> ---= Move UNITED NATIONS To Paris =---
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> "Life would be devoid of all meaning were it without tribulation."
> Sheldon
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You're talking about your inheritance right? ;-)
--
Steve
Everyone has a photographic memory. Some folks just don't have any film.
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| Kswck |
"PENMART01" <penmart01@aol.como> wrote in message
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> >> Finally someone understands the plight of us big boys regarding
condoms...
> >you
> >> do realize that sausage casing is readilly available in various
diameters,
> >and
> >> now condoms too, finally!
> >
> >
> >Yeah, just don't rip them when you pulling them over your head Sheldon.
>
> No problem, with my endowment I often just pull a shower cap over the
head.
>
>
Ah yes. the TBC Total Body Condom.
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| PENMART01 |
> Steve Calvin writes:
>
>PENMART01 wrote:
>
>>>>Finally someone understands the plight of us big boys regarding condoms...
>>>
>>>you
>>>
>>>>do realize that sausage casing is readilly available in various diameters,
>>>
>>>and
>>>
>>>>now condoms too, finally!
>>>
>>>
>>>Yeah, just don't rip them when you pulling them over your head Sheldon.
>>
>>
>> No problem, with my endowment I often just pull a shower cap over the head.
>>
>You're talking about your inheritance right? ;-)
In a manner of speaking, well yes.
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| Mike Carvin |
"Kswck" <kswck@optonline.net> wrote in message
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> "PENMART01" <penmart01@aol.como> wrote in message
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> >
> > No problem, with my endowment I often just pull a shower cap over the
> head.
> >
> >
>
> Ah yes. the TBC Total Body Condom.
>
For people who are total dicks, right? ;-)
MikeC
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| PENMART01 |
>For people who are total dicks, right?
>
>Mike Hunt
Hmmm...
Ahahahahahahahahahaha. . . .
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