smoking sausages

[aris]

The ice water thing you mention what is used for cooked sausages like frankfurters. There is an interesting episode of 'How its Made' which takes you through a frankfurter factory These are cooked/poached, then rapidly cooled and can be eaten cold or re-heated or grilled etc.

As for cooking raw sausage low-and slow - i've tried it with a traditional banger at 250f - wasn't impressed. I need to try it with an all-meat sausage. I think i'll stick to 225-250f as it will probably be in there with other stuff.

[YetiDave]

Oooooh cool, I'll have to look that up

[aris]

Yes, the frankfurters episode was quite surprising. The franks are piped into a thin plastic casing - cooked, rapidly cooled, and then the casing is cut off and discarded - leaving a perfectly formed frank.

Here you go:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NzUm7UEEIY