How to Cook Sausage

Sausages are a delicious accompaniment to any meal. Smoked sausages have been cooked, but frying can help enhance the flavor. Uncooked sausages need to be boiled before being processed by other methods. This article will show you how to make sausages.

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Fried sausage

Heat a pan on the stove. Turn on the stove to medium heat. Place the pan firmly on the stove and let it heat for 1-2 minutes.

When the pan steams or starts to sizzle when a drop of water is added, you are ready to fry the sausages.

Pour some oil into the pan. Sausages are relatively fatty, so you don’t need to add too much oil. However, the fat inside the sausage takes a few minutes to release, so the sausage may initially stick to the pan and burn. To prevent that, you should spread a tablespoon of cooking oil (such as canola oil) to smooth the bottom of the pan before the fat in the sausage melts.

Be careful when using olive oil. Olive oil has a lower smoke point than many other cooking oils, so it will smoke at low temperatures. This is not dangerous but can trigger a fire alarm and slightly affect the flavor of the sausage. ^{[1] X Research Source}

Place sausages on hot pan. Carefully place each sausage stick in the pan, so that the sausages have enough room and do not touch each other. This way the sausage can cook evenly all around. If you have a lot of sausages, you may need to fry several batches. ^{[2] X Research Source}

If the sausage casings stick together, you need to cut them off before placing them in the pan.

Fry until sausage is evenly browned. Initially, you should leave the sausage in the pan. Turn the other side over after 2 minutes. Continue flipping the sausage every few minutes until evenly browned all around. Depending on the size of the sausage, the frying process will take about 10-15 minutes. ^{[3] X Research Sources}

When the sausage browns evenly, you can cut it in half. The sausage must be firm and evenly cooked, no longer pink, and the juices that come out should be transparent. Fry again if the sausage does not meet these criteria. ^{[4] X Research Sources}
Use long tongs to protect your hands from oil splashes.

Flatten or cut sausages in half to reduce cooking time. You may lose patience while waiting for the sausage to cook. Fortunately, there are many ways to reduce sausage preparation time:

Cut the sausage in half. Use a sharp knife to cut the sausage body in half from one end to the other. Split the sausage body in half (like a “butterfly wing”) and place the inside side down in the pan. Fry until sausage is evenly browned.
Or you can thin the sausage to cook faster. Press the bottom of a heavy pan or frying pan up until the sausages deflate before frying.

If needed, you can steam the sausage after frying. Some sausages (especially large sausages) take a long time to cook thoroughly. If you want the sausage to be cooked but are worried that frying it too long will burn it, you can try the following recipe. Prepare the lid to fit the frying pan.

Fry the sausage as usual until browned on the outside but raw on the inside.
Pour half a cup of water into the hot pan. Cover the pan. Steam will build up inside and begin to evenly heat the sausage bar.
Lower the fire. Steam for about 5-10 minutes and then carefully remove the lid to avoid steam burns. Fry the sausages for a few more minutes to retain the “crissiness” of the sausage casings.

Grilled sausage

Prepare the grill. Grilled sausages are similar to fried sausages but not exactly the same. First, light the grill and wait for the grill to heat up. If using a gas grill, you can turn the heat on medium-high. If you’re using charcoal, you can make lots of briquettes, let them burn until the wood is covered with ash and is bright orange.

If you’re using charcoal and don’t know how to start, you can read the article Make a Charcoal Fireplace for more details.

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Prepare the “hot” and “cold” portions of the grill. After the grill is hot, you need to make a little more adjustment. Let one side of the grill heat up and reduce the heat on the other side. This step is not difficult if you follow the instructions below:

If using a gas grill, simply turn the heat down on one side.
If you are using a charcoal grill, be careful to use the charcoal tongs to push most of the hot coals aside, leaving only a thin layer of charcoal on the other side. Then carefully place the grill on the hot side.

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Pre-grill the sausages on the hot side of the grill. Arrange each sausage stick on the side of the hot grill. The sausages should be spaced a little apart to cook evenly. Similar to frying in a pan, if the sausage skins stick together, you need to cut them apart before grilling.

Flip sausage after 2 minutes. The underside should be black-brown but not burnt. Continue to preheat the other side for about 1 minute before moving on to the next step.

Transfer sausages to the side of the cold grill. After the sausage is browned evenly, use a long fork or tongs to transfer the sausage to the side of the cooled grill. Continue to cook, but at this point you won’t have to worry about the sausage burning like you would on a hot grill. Bake for an additional 10 minutes and flip the sausages occasionally.

As mentioned above, the sausage is cooked when the outside is brown, firm and no longer pink. The juice that comes out should be transparent.

Boiled Sausage

Fill the pan with water 3/4 of the way. You can use filtered water, but filtered water will not add flavor to the sausage. Therefore, you should try mixing water with your favorite liquid ingredients. For example, meat broth, wine, beer, and ketchup can flavor sausages when boiled. ^{[5] X Research Sources}

The boiling method does not create a crispy crust for the sausage but helps retain the moisture and fat inside. Therefore, boiling is suitable for fine-textured sausages made of minced meat, fat and water, such as Bratwursts, Hot dogs, Frankfurters, Weisswurst, Knockwurst and Serdelki. ^{[6] X Research Sources}

Boil water. Turn on the stove to the highest heat because you need to boil a lot of water. It may take a few minutes for the water to boil.

Place sausages in a pot of boiling water. To prevent hot water from splashing, use tongs or long chopsticks to slowly place each sausage into the pot. Do not drop from above. After you have put all the sausages in, you can lower the heat to simmer.

Wait for the sausage to cook. Close the pot lid. If the sausage is already cooked (most hot dogs), simply boil it until cooked through (about 10 minutes). Conversely, if the sausage has not been processed , you need to boil it for 30 minutes before taking it out. Stir while boiling to cook sausage evenly.

Boiled sausages after cooking will be slightly different from grilled sausages or fried sausages. The outside won’t be brown — just firm and even, with no pink flesh left. Depending on the type, the sausage can have an unappealing gray waxy color. That’s okay, as long as the sausage is well cooked.

Another way is to fry the sausage until it turns brown. Boiled sausages can be eaten immediately. However, if you like the crispy outside, you can fry the sausages. Prepare a hot pan, add a tablespoon of oil and fry both sides until brown.

Many types of sausages in Central and Eastern Europe are often eaten after being boiled. However, the sausage still tastes good after frying, so don’t hesitate to fry it.

Oven-roasted sausages

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C. While waiting for the oven to heat up, you can move on to the next step.

Prepare the baking pan. There are many ways to grill sausages in the oven — the simplest is to place the sausages directly on the metal grill. However, to make the sausage more delicious, you should try the following method to let the excess fat from the sausage drip down like it is when grilling:

Line the pan with aluminum foil. This step makes cleaning easier.
Place the metal grill on a baking pan lined with aluminum foil. The grill bar should be tight enough so that the sausage does not fall down.

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Place sausages on the grill. Like the above processing methods, sausages must be spaced about 2.5 cm apart to cook evenly. If the sausage casings stick together, you’ll need to cut them apart to make it easier to spread the sausage out.

Bake for about 20 minutes. Place the sausage in the center of the oven. Bake for 10 minutes, then flip sausage once, continue to bake for another 10 minutes. ^{[7] X Research Sources}

Use long tongs to handle hot sausages as the sausages can sometimes be a bit slippery and difficult to grasp.

Advice

Some sausages (usually supermarket sausages) will have cooking instructions on the package that are different from the methods in this article. But you don’t need to worry. In countries such as the UK, New Zealand and Australia, sausages can be safely consumed after cooking according to package instructions, for example frying, grilling or grilling in a BBQ.
A perfectly cooked sausage should have an internal temperature of 60-66 degrees Celsius. If you have a meat thermometer, you can use it to check if the sausage is cooked properly.
When frying sausages, you can use the excess fat in the pan to cook other foods (eg vegetables, sliced bread, …). These dishes will have a bit of a sausage flavor.

Steps

Fried sausage

Grilled sausage

Boiled Sausage

Oven-roasted sausages

Advice

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