How to air dry sausage

Chinese sausage is a food that many people like to eat, and it is also a salty food that many people prepare during the Chinese New Year. Chinese sausage has certain nutritional value, and of course, it tastes very delicious. However, if you want to successfully make sausages, you must first learn how to air-dry the sausages. Below, I will recommend two ways to air-dry sausages and how to choose sausages!

1. Hang it in a dry and ventilated place

After stuffing the sausage, you can put it in a well-ventilated, dry but sunny place to dry. The recommended place is a place with good natural ventilation such as eaves or windows, but no direct sunlight.

Tips:

1. Don't expose it to the sun. It dries too quickly in the sun and the necessary biochemical reactions don't have time to occur.

2. The ventilation conditions in the room are not very good, so the drying time will be longer. Moreover, the temperature in the room is also higher, so the food may deteriorate before it is dried.

3. The sausages hung outdoors must be brought into the house when it rains.

4. It is best to make it in winter, as the sausage will easily deteriorate if the temperature is too high.

2. Smoking

Hang the stuffed sausages over a fire pit or a pile of firewood and smoke them for 24 hours until the sausages give off an aroma and a small amount of oil comes out.

3. How to choose sausage

1. Choose brand sausage

Generally speaking, the quality of branded sausages is guaranteed. It is best to buy it in packaged form; it is not recommended to buy it in bulk. Don't buy those that leak.

Packaged branded sausages should have the "QS" logo, product name, net content, factory name, address, production date, shelf life, nutritional ingredient table, etc. If the labels are incomplete or unclear, you should choose with caution.

2. Choose dry sausage

A drier sausage means it is better air-dried, easier to preserve, and tastes better. If the sausage is wet, it means it is not dried thoroughly and will increase its weight, so it is not advisable to buy it.

3. Choose dark gray sausage

The color of high-quality sausages should not be too dark, otherwise it means that too much condiments such as soy sauce have been added, and the taste will be worse. Generally, dark gray is better, and bright red and other colors should not be chosen as illegal additives may be added. The sausage meat that has gone bad or is about to go bad is yellow and the fat is light yellow.