How to keep sausage cases from splitting?

I make the sausage mix and put it in the casing. Although, when I twist them to make them into individual sausages it splits and I have wasted the casing and sausage meat.

The sausages split literally as I twist them. I use 'Single dry beef collagen casing 28mm' cases. I store them in a dark safe cupboard where they cannot get damaged. Before filling them I wash the to make sure they are no snags

Any help would be appreciated, Domford

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Best Answer

Collagen casings are quite fragile, unfortunately, and can’t easily be twisted off. You can try filling them less and pinching the meat away in the area you’ll twist, or tying them off with kitchen twine, or use natural casings instead.

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Quick Answer about "How to keep sausage cases from splitting?"

Preventing Sausages From Splitting on the Grill The best way to prevent your sausages from splitting on the grill is by cooking them low and slow. Put them on a side with indirect heat and let them cook a bit longer. Make sure you also turn them a few minutes to even out the heat distribution.

Why is my sausage casing breaking?

There are other reasons for sausages bursting though. During the filling process, if the sausage mix is stuffed too tightly into the casings there would be no room for expansion when cooking and also when linking the skins \u2013 and they would be at their maximum capacity.

Why do sausages split lengthways?

It turns out that for a pressure vessel, the stress going around circumferentially is twice as high as the stress going lengthwise. So that means that it tends to rip along the length because the circumferential stress is twice as high as the longitudinal stress.

How do you seal sausage casings?

Sealing Fibrous Casings

Before filling, take a small pin and poke a hole at the sealed end of the casing. ...

Once you've filled the casing, leave a few inches empty so that you can seal that end. ...

Press the bottom of the fold to squeeze the air out. ...

Grab a piece of twine or string and fold it in half.

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