The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science

BASIC HOMEMADE

SAUSAGE

There are four basic steps to making any type of sausage:

1. Salt and season. Add aromatic flavorings and

salt    to  the chunks  of  meat    and fat.    As  discussed   here,

salt    is  absolutely  essential   and should  be  measured    out

to  between 1   and 2   percent of  the total   weight  of  the