The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science

½ teaspoon cayenne pepper ¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon ¼ teaspoon ground cloves 1 teaspoon ground cumin 1 ...

Free-form merguez on the grill. NOTE: Sumac is the ground dried berries of a flowering plant indigenous to Afr ...

1 tablespoon sumac (optional; see Note above) 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper ...

MAPLE-SAGE BREAKFAST SAUSAGE This is a classic breakfast sausage with a sweet and savory blend of ...

MAKES 1 KILOGRAM (ABOUT 2 POUNDS 3 OUNCES) 680 grams (about 1½ pounds) pork shoulder, trimmed and cut into ...

Place all the parts of the grinder in the freezer for at least 1 hour prior. Attach the grinder to your mix ...

{ COOKING SAUSAGES } I’m sure you have been to at least a couple of those weekend warrior cookouts. You ...

Cooking sausages is just like cooking steaks or a whole turkey: the best way is to be gentle. You want ...

skillet with melted butter or oil. Add the hot cooked sausages and sauté them briefly, jus ...

ingredients—say, sauerkraut and its liquid or some sliced onions and apples with a cup of beer—place ...

Just as with any meat, it’s important to allow sausages to rest after cooking in order to prevent j ...

THE WRONG WAY TO GRILL SAUSAGES Here are a few things that might go wrong when you grill sausages. The Ch ...

A burnt and busted-open casing, sooty flavor, juices lost to the grill gods. What happened: This is what ...

in proportion to his body. The casing and outer layers crack and burst open. Liquefied fat and meat ...

exterior. Simultaneously overcooked and undercooked. Not good. What happened: Another product of high-heat ...

OK, so this time you take it to the opposite extreme, cooking the sausage the entire way through on the cooler ...

interior layers have already overcooked. Steam and expanded muscle tissue will give the sausage a plump ap ...

GARLIC SAUSAGE WITH LENTILS These sausages are cooked with the simmer-then-fry technique to get them ...

Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper 1 recipe Garlic Sausage (here), stuffed into casings (6 to 8 links), ...

minutes. By this point, the lentils should be ready. Stir most of the parsley, olive oil, and vinega ...