Churchgate (Old Harlow, Essex) - Special Hot Italian

We can honestly say that we’ve never been disappointed with produce from The Churchgate Sausage Company. The consistency of making and the quality of the ingredients of their sausages is spot on. If we want sausages for a family or friends event we know they will always go down well with our guests.

Jason Drage and Dan (their head sausage man) & team turn out very good sausages, sometimes we do agree with somewhat “out there” flavours, that might seem odd but do sell well it appears…the pork and slow gin variety comes to mind! (Churchgate Pork & Sloe Gin

These Special Hot Italians look excellent in the raw with a deep colouring. Containing 92% Essex pork with chilli, paprika, garlic, fennel and oregano all in natural skins…gluten free too…so what’s not to like!

Now given some of the chilli laced sausage that we’ve tried from Churchgate which don’t pull a punch on chilli power we were a little concerned that the “hot” title would see us with so much stinging we wouldn’t be able to taste the other ingredients let alone the pork! We didn’t need to be concerned as the chilli thankfully was well under control and the balance of flavours really worked.

A fairly chunky texture and firm-ish to the bite which was good really as I had bought these from Churchgate as part of a “frozen deal” they do occasionally and had been in our own freezer for while until we got round to sampling.

Taste-wise…what can we say? Excellent. You get the fennel and garlic straightaway, with the chilli just giving you a “tingle” to the tongue. We have unfortunately a team member that’s not into fennel and said it was too strong for her. Fine for the rest of us I will hasten to add. How can it be a proper Italian sausage without fennel?

A premium class gourmet sausage to be sure. Slight weight loss and hardly any shrinkage.

Would we buy again? Come on…of course we would!

Churchgate (Old Harlow, Essex) - Special Hot Italian
      (Jun 2021)

Here's the sample details:
110x30mm before cooking, 110x28mm after.
86g before cooking, 72g after.
That's a shrinkage of 6% & weight loss of approx 16%.
6 sausages in a 500g pack £5.50   (£11.00/kg)

  

   

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