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Barton Seaver - Sausage. Saucisson. Salchicha. Salsiccia.
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Tuesday, July 19, 2022 at 2:00 pm Pacific, 2:00 pm Eastern
Join Chef Barton Seaver to explore the ancient art of sausage and the variety of global flavors of sausages.
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Question:
Some sausage comes with a casing which is hard to remove. I prefer to remove it, so what’s the best method?
— Hilda P J
Answer:
So like hot dog casing is very hard to
remove. So let's let's just try this the way that I do it. I will
cut off just a little bit at the top and then I'll make a
sliced down the side
of it.
and then
hot dog casings are very hard because they've already been cooked on.
And then sort of just peel down as I go. So
trying to get some purchase and some leverage
and then once you get
Enough of it pulled off. This is just sort of like peeling a sticker off
of a book. You're giving us a gift Etc. You
don't just start in one corner and rip you kind of work your way
down the side and then slowly slowly slowly kind of
roll it off Etc. That's that's what I do and
I typically take the
Such a covering off for things like Spanish chorizo
things like that if it
is a raw sausage.
it is easy enough just to
kind of push it out, you know just
find the end of it there and just find the end of the
casing and there's in this.
Case and then just squeeze the meat directly
out when raw is probably
easier than trying to get it off after the fact
if cooking just depends on the sausage and
the nature of it. So a couple of different techniques for
you there. Cheers.