Sausage Review - we review sausages

Sometimes we do get sausages passed to us for our opinion by businesses and in this case from good friends who had tried and liked them enough to bring them to our attention. Free sausages are always welcome of course! However, "Boar" always brings to mind a strong flavoursome eat that strikes fear in the minds of two of the team here...and so without further ado...

Unfortunately we are without some basic info this review as the questions weren't asked at the time of purchase and with a bag of loose "snorkers" with no labelling, it will be difficult. I can't criticise as "most people" probably wouldn't ask the detail that we do. So missing the source of meat, the percentage of lean, the source of casings and whether the butcher was left or right handed aside...I jest about the butcher of course...we'll do our best to do these not too dusty looking sausages an honest review.

From the look, I would say that the meat percentage was fairly on the high side. Cooked up the natural skins were indeed very good and apart from a couple of little splits, the innards were well contained. We did however get some burnt liquid in the pan resulting in a little stickiness and crust. I suspect that this may be the apple ingredient caramelising. 

They cut OK which was pleasing as some sausages we sample, the skins are quite "rubbery" making them tear rather than cut clean. Quite a good chew too but the flavour was a touch surprising. With "Boar" as a title, there wasn't that very strong "porkiness" we expected. Frankly really strong flavoured pork doesn't go down that well here with a couple of the team, so the medium textured not so strong flavour got the thumbs up. We felt though the apple content could have had just a touch more impact. It was OK, just needed a bit more. Whereas the other seasonings were just about right.

Weight loss was interesting. Moisture and apple ingredient loss may account for this. I will enquire when next able to as to whether the apple ingredient was fresh apple or desiccated.

In a hot dog roll though with a daub of Dijon, these were gone in no time!

Next time we are over to see our friends, we will drop over to the shop in St Osyth, and see what other delights they have on offer.


St Osyth Butchers (St Osyth, Essex) - Boar & Apple (Aug 22)

Here's the sample details:
115x30mm before cooking, 105x30mm after.
84g before cooking, 72g after.
That's a shrinkage of approx 8% & weight loss of approx 14%.
(Sorry, didn't get the price as these were dropped off to us)

St Osyth Butchers
2 Spring Rd,
St. Osyth,
Clacton-on-Sea
CO16 8RN

01255 820292

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