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Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: Buffy the eggs layer on October 28, 2015, 05:02:26 pm

Title: Skins - One size fits all?
Post by: Buffy the eggs layer on October 28, 2015, 05:02:26 pm

I've been making sausages today and had all sorts of trouble with my dry skins. Are they one size fits all like condoms or do they come in different sizes?


I just couldnt seem to slide the skin far enough onto the sausage nozzle to make any reasonable progress. In the end I took to making 5 bangers at a time with short lengths.


Any advice on the whole sliding the skin on palava?

Title: Re: Skins - One size fits all?
Post by: Foobar on October 28, 2015, 05:10:17 pm

Are they wet enough? :)


There are (at least) two sizes I think, sheep casings and hog casings.  The sheep being the smaller and the hog being the larger.

Title: Re: Skins - One size fits all?
Post by: harmony on October 28, 2015, 05:16:20 pm

I think the trick is to soak them.

Title: Re: Skins - One size fits all?
Post by: Buffy the eggs layer on October 28, 2015, 05:56:51 pm

Thanks.


  I knew you would know. The you tube demo that the manufacturer has on line uses them dry and made it look easy but there were two of them at it. The husband was shoving it in at one end and his wife was holding the skin back and feeding it through.


I realise that I was doing it by myself and the video did say that its better with two but wet skins may indeed be the answer if you are planning to do it alone.

Title: Re: Skins - One size fits all?
Post by: Porterlauren on October 28, 2015, 06:30:14 pm

Hate to break it to you, but they make more than one size of condom to. . . .

Title: Re: Skins - One size fits all?
Post by: Buffy the eggs layer on October 28, 2015, 07:10:05 pm

And you would know that because.......? :-J




I just meant that they are made to accommodate different sized...objects. At school, in health ed we once had to put one on a banana and I had a bit of trouble then as I recall, but a boy at the back of the class managed to put his whole head in one!.......shortly before being sent to the Headmasters office..... :innocent: [size=78%] [/size]

Title: Re: Skins - One size fits all?
Post by: Porterlauren on October 28, 2015, 07:52:44 pm

. . . . . they make extra large ones.   . . . . . for special people.  ::)

Title: Re: Skins - One size fits all?
Post by: Buffy the eggs layer on October 28, 2015, 08:08:08 pm

People with really big heads.......? :thinking:  Or are we back onto sausage skins?

Title: Re: Skins - One size fits all?
Post by: Porterlauren on October 28, 2015, 08:26:50 pm

Yep. . . . . and that works on more than one level  :-J

Title: Re: Skins - One size fits all?
Post by: Buffy the eggs layer on October 28, 2015, 08:35:45 pm

Thank you flippin Sid James  ;D


  can I remind you that this is a family forum  :o


Returning to my original thread....I'm thinking of trying hog skins as I understand that they accommodate size fluctuations without splitting.


No Porter.....dont go there....., ::)

Title: Re: Skins - One size fits all?
Post by: Porterlauren on October 28, 2015, 08:38:13 pm

Sorry, forgot to put the clocks back. . . . thought it was after the watershed!

Title: Re: Skins - One size fits all?
Post by: Buffy the eggs layer on October 29, 2015, 05:59:17 am

 ;D :D ;)

Title: Re: Skins - One size fits all?
Post by: Bionic on October 29, 2015, 09:12:53 am

I have some of these in the fridge ready for use this weekend.


http://www.weschenfelder.co.uk/sausage-casings-skins/natural-british-hog/home-pack-ready-spooled-british-hog-casings.html (http://www.weschenfelder.co.uk/sausage-casings-skins/natural-british-hog/home-pack-ready-spooled-british-hog-casings.html)


They are a bit more expensive, being already spooled but worked well for me last time.

Title: Re: Skins - One size fits all?
Post by: Buffy the eggs layer on October 29, 2015, 09:39:35 am

Oooh thanks Bionic

Title: Re: Skins - One size fits all?
Post by: Foobar on October 29, 2015, 11:29:04 am

I prefer the sheep casings; I find the hog casings a bit tough.  The ready spooled ones are ace though, so much easier!