home-made fresh sausage

What do you need first?

• Everything You Need to Make Sausage at Home | Epicurious
• You don't need a meat grinder:   [1] [2]
  • knife only — [1] [2]
  • food processor — [1]
  • pre-ground meat + some kind of mixer — [1] [2]
• You don't need a sausage stuffer:   [1] [2]
• If you have a KitchenAid stand mixer:
  • older (metal) meat grinder attachment
  • newer (plastic) meat grinder attachment
  • casing stuffer nozzle (designed to be used only with the plastic meat grinder)
• a reddit recommendation to get a manual meat grinder instead
  • list on Amazon
  • Weston #8   Weston #22   Vevor #12   Cam2 #10   LEM #10

Why is this a good idea?

• Using sausage in place of ground meat can add a ton of flavor very easily [2]
  • ▶ CookWell — How to turn Sausage into Infinite Weeknight Meals

How-to resources

Larger resources:

• /r/SausageTalk
• Meat And Sausages.com, by Stanley Marianski, Miroslaw Gebarowski, and others
  • list of books by the above team:   [1]   [2]

Individual articles:

• The Beginner’s Guide to Making Sausage at Home | Outside Magazine
• by ewilhelm | Instructables.com
• by mikeasaurus | Instructables.com
• How to Make Homemade Sausage | Hunter Angler Gardner Cook
• How the (Homemade) Sausage Is Made | Bon Appétit
• How to Make Homemade Italian Sausage | The Chopping Block (lots of photos)
• Making Sausages at Home | Butcher Magazine
• How to Make Homemade Sausage | Simply Recipes

Videos:

• Duncan Henry   [1]   [2]   [3]
• playlist by Scott Rea
  • The Complete Sausage-Making Master Class | Scott Rea
• playlist by Chuds BBQ
• playlist by Smokin' Joe's Pit BBQ
• search results | Bartlow's BBQ
• search results | Culinary Exploration
• | Joshua Weissman
• | PBS Food
• | Smithsonian Magazine
• Sausage Kielbasa | Natasha's Kitchen
• | Food Farmer Earth
• | Arnie Tex
• | Cowboy Kent Rollins   [1]   [2]   [3]
• Rustic

Specific recipes

• ▶ Thai-inspired sausage | Ethan Chlebowski

Whole lists of recipes:

• MeatsAndSausages.com/sausage-recipes
• ▶ playlists by 2 Guys & A Cooler — multiple seasons of "Celebrate Sausage"