How to clean sausage intestines

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 1 hr

1. STEP 1

   

   I clean the chopped intestines from the top fat and thin film. I cut the intestines into 50 cm or meter pieces. For blood sausage, 50 cm each, and for homemade meat or minced meat, one meter each. Then I stuff it through the attachment in the meat grinder.

2. STEP 2

   

   Then I turn the intestines inside out under running water and soak them in soda for an hour.

3. STEP 3

   

   I rinse off the baking soda and prepare for cleaning.

4. STEP 4

   

   I take 2 knitting needles (for knitting socks) and tie them tightly at one end.

5. STEP 5

   

   This is what kitchen “equipment” looks like.

6. STEP 6

   

   I pass a little from one end of the intestine through the knitting needles (tightly clamped together). The layer of this internal “mush” is removed.

7. STEP 7

   

   We clean if unnecessary remains on the knitting needle.

8. STEP 8

   

   We grab the cleaned tail with our fingers and pull the rest of the dirty intestine through the clamped knitting needles in the opposite direction.

9. STEP 9

   

   If the intestine slips out of my hands, then I put a glove on my left hand (for working in the garden or at a cotton construction site) and then the intestine did not slip out.

10. STEP 10

    

    Something like that. You see on the needle one end is tied, and I clamp it with my right hand and gently pull it. But you need to control the pressure of the needles so that the intestine does not tear.

11. STEP 11

    

    It turns out very quickly, conveniently and cleanly. Then I rinse the intestines under running water, both on top and inside, and soak them in water acidified with vinegar for 20-30 minutes (50 ml per 1 liter of water). Then I rinse and put the finished intestines in cold water. When I make the sausage, I will post a photo of how I tie the intestines without threads. These intestines can be filled with salt water in a jar and stored in the refrigerator or freezer, but without water, but in an ethylene bag.