How to package breakfast sausage?

[tex_toby]

How do you package your homemade breakfast sausage? I'm not a big fan of breakfast sausage, but I made my wife up a 10lb batch last night. I was planning on rolling tootsie rolls style it into 1 lb increments, wrapping with plastic wrap and then wrapping again in freezer paper. My wife nixed that idea saying that she wants to be able to slice off frozen patties as she needs them the same way she does with the 1 lb packages of Jimmy Dean Sausage. Now I have a big mixing bowl of sausage ready to be packaged in my fridge and don't know how to do it now. How do you do it?

tex

[txngent]

I buy them off eBay cheaper.

[txngent]

You can also freeze in 1# or so loafs (in a bread pan), then once frozen vac seal.

[ChileFarmer]

Tex, I get my meat bags from here. http://www.midwesternresearch.com/iw_pr ... ?cat=22030 Then use my sausage stuffer to fill. Works out great. CF

[DATsBBQ]

You can also get them at https://www.lemproducts.com/product/4041/bags_tape , Bass Pro Shops also carries some of the LEM products.

I tried buy some from the local packing house. They refused because their name is on them. Nothing a sharpie wouldn't fix but they'd have none of it.

[tex_toby]

Thanks for the info, fellas. Yep, those 1 lb bags are exactly what I need. I didn't know you could buy them like that. At any rate, I may be out of luck since I already made up the batch of meat. How long you think it will hang out in my fridge and be ok? Not sure I can wait on shipping.

The only store I have close by that might have these bags is Gander Mountain. I checked their website and they do carry them, but it said "Web price only," so I am guessing that they won't have them in the store. At any rate, I may swing by there after work to see if they do.

tex

[txngent]

Worst case and you can't get the bags with in a few days, you can always get you some zip lock freezer bags. I used to use the bags and press out the meat flat. Stack them in the freezer. Take out a bag at a time. The wife would let it thaw just enough to cut out patties with the biscuit cutter.

[Stan41]

Here's what I did with the last batch. Since I like aged breakfast sausage I had the Mrs. to sew me some cloth sausage sacks out of some old flour sacks I had saved up.
Stan

[tex_toby]

BINGO - just stopped by Gander Mountain and they had some bags. I never get that lucky. Thanks again, guys!

tex