Anyone can make sausage. Anyone. Just gotta get the ideas in order. Actually it is just like making the plastics we do. Curiosity nips you first, then you delve into information, then you line up your equipment and then you do it. There are successes and there are flops. Ultimately if you stick it out and pay attention to what you are doing you get hooked on it.
When I make sausage of any kind, I make it in batches that I can handle....just like when I make plastic.
I keep my immediate work area relentlessly clean and neat, just like my plastics work area.
I keep my tools simple. Remember, the more moving parts the wider the learning curve....the more that can go wrong.
I began smoking fish when I was 15 years old. Loved the smoked fish especially winter carp. As I grew into hunting and dressed all of my own game out smoking became a part of that process. For years I hunted three western states, Minnesota , Wisconsin and South Dakota every fall for deer and elk. I've never paid a penny to have a deer butchered. I have paid to have my trim ground but when I have done that I went in after hours and had MY meat done all at once and I had something on the order of two hundred pounds of clean trim from elk, deer, antelope and bear. This blend made the most amazing sausage I have ever eaten.
Just like this plastics stuff, taking on your own animal processing isn't all that hard but it does have a learning curve. Keep it simple to startt so basics get engrained real well and don't take on more than what you can handle.
