Description
Our Natural Hog Casings Home Pack are small, more manageable casings. Ideal for small batches of meat (few pounds at a time). These casings vary in size and lengths, some pieces may be as short as 2-3 feet in length. Perfect for home use and all levels of sausage making. Home Packs are more inconsistent when it comes to length when compared to our butcher-packs of casings.
Natural hog sausage casings, Home Packs, are sourced from North American Hogs Only.
Natural hog casings are ideal for making Italian sausage, Polish sausage, bratwurst, jumbo hot dogs, and country-style pork sausage.
Product Details:
- Edible
- Grade A quality, minimum pin holes. better durability and tensile strength.
- Ideal for making Italian sausage, Polish sausage, bratwurst, jumbo hot dogs, and country pork sausage.
- Size: 32-38mm (1 ¼ – 1 ½)
- Makes between 20 – 30 lbs. sausage (depending on links/rope size)*
- Includes 1 pack per order
Preparing Natural Casings
- Remove the approximate amount you will need.
- Place casings in a clean food-safe bowl.
- Rinse casings of salt under cool running water.
- Flush the insides of casings to assist in smooth casing application.
- For small casings (<42mm): place bowl in cool water to soak for about 2 hours in the refrigerator prior to use.
- For larger casings (>42mm): place a bowl of the beef bung, middles, and/or rounds in the refrigerator to soak overnight before use.
- Optional for smell control – add 1/2 tsp baking soda per cup of water.
- Optional for tenderizing – squeeze a lemon or add a tablespoon of white vinegar to soaking water to refresh casings.
Refrigeration
The natural casings should be kept refrigerated until ready for use. Un-refrigerated, these salted casings may give off a strong odor. This is Normal. Simply put the casings back into the refrigerator and the odor will subside. Natural casings should never be frozen. It affects their integrity after thawing and will cause more blowouts.
Shipping Information
Natural casings cannot be shipped outside the United States. All natural casings are non-refundable and non-returnable.
Natural Casings 101
Click here for more information on what type of natural casing to use. Click here for additional sizes and types of natural casings.
*Casing capacity depends on meat/fill density, size/lengths of links or loops and how tightly casings being filled.
Joseph P. (verified owner) –
Great product
Patty Mock (verified owner) –
These casings are top-notch !!
Patrick Capaldi (verified owner) –
Joseph B. Carlini (verified owner) –
Can’t wait to use them!
Anonymous (verified owner) –
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Dirk Klover (verified owner) –
The package was open, not sealed and had a very bad smell. I threw them out, and will call customer service on Monday
John Paa (verified owner) –
Hi Dirk, I replaced the unsealed package this morning. Very sorry about the damage caused during shipping.
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Vince Thomas (verified owner) –
High quality casing. Much better than others I have used.
Coleman Chastain –
These casings do nothing but rip, they are very low quality and I would not suggest for anyone trying to make sausage at a high level.
willburr9765 –
I have been smoking meat and making jerky for decades “uncle Abes is the best”. However being new to sausage making I know from reading many reviews many vendors and sausage experts that cases are not all created equal. I have found these cases to be great, I have not struggled with ruptured cases split cases “as the lone negative reviewer states”. These cases have been great in stuffing and smoking, grilling, pan frying. Awesome product.
david H –
casings split when cooking, i usually cook my sausages in frying pan with water half way up on the sausage, cook for 25 minutes, all casings so far have split open letting all the flavor cook out of the sausage. whole batch ruined with these cheap casing never buy again, looks like have to go to butcher for some good casings can’t understand why the ratings are so high i can’t be the only one who has this issue.