[Sca-cooks] Looking for sausage casings

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Apr 30, 2007, at 5:22 PM, Michael Gunter wrote:

> I just got a new sausage stuffer attachment for my Kitchenade
> so, of course, I simply MUST make link sausages.
> I have a couple of wonderful recipes to try. But the problem is
> that I can't find a source for the casings. So far every grocery
> store butcher shop I've gone to does not sell casings. Not
> even the places that make their own sausage!
>
> I've been told to check out the more ethnic markets like
> Fiesta so that is my next step. Mistress Clara told me she
> got her casings through the mail but can't remember the
> vendor.
>
> So, any suggestions for sausage casing vendors in the Dallas
> area?

Remember about a million years ago, I posted a little essay about  
making friends with your butcher? Most shops that make sausage  
wouldn't mind dipping into their own supply of pre-soaked casings for  
a buddy...

But yes, failing that, ethnic markets are a good place to look; I've  
had good luck getting casings in Italian pork stores (this isn't a  
butcher shop, per se; while they do butchering, they're more like the  
Italian equivalent of a French charcuterie, but in English, among  
Italian-Americans, they're mostly known as "pork stores", salumeria  
in Italian. I've also seen them in some generically, default-ethnic  
(read discount) meat markets which tend to cater to a variety of  
ethnic groups.

And failing that, there's always Sausagemaker.com. They're in upstate  
NY someplace, maybe Buffalo, but process and ship orders _very_  
quickly. And, of course, they have just about anything you could  
possibly want in that general area.

http://www.sausagemaker.com/

Adamantius