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Separating a Giant Sausage Roll
Separating sausages in the freezer can be a problem. Tupperware used to have a container called a Hot Dog Keeper; it had little pyramids in rows and you'd lay the sausages (or hot dogs if you were American) between them. Once frozen you could take a single sausage out of the container if you needed it.
I loved the idea, but not the expense. For years I'd try to freeze our sausages flat in freezer bags, or in lots of one, two or three sausages, but I'd end up with little packages of frozen snags all through the freezer and they'd still be hard to separate.
Once I started using the liners from cereal boxes as go-between, I realised I had a very simple solution to the problem that cost nothing and was also reusable.
I cut the bags open, wash them, dry them.
When I'm packing sausages for the freezer I lay the bag out flat, put a sausage on the end, roll it over, put another sausage on, roll it over, put another sausage on, roll it over until I've either used the bag or all the sausages. Then I close the ends with bread ties I've saved and pop the giant sausage roll in the freezer. Once it is frozen I put the entire thing into a freezer bag and close it (double wrapping will help prevent freezer burn).
When I need two or four or even one sausage it just unrolls and separates really easily. No more having to defrost a clump when I only need a couple and no more having little packages of sausages floating around the freezer.
Once all the sausages have been used, I take the liner and wash it in the kitchen sink, in hot water with detergent, rinse under hot water and peg on the line to dry in the sun, ready to be used for the next giant sausage roll. They last for ages before I eventually put them into the recycle bin.
Contributed by Cath Armstrong
I loved the idea, but not the expense. For years I'd try to freeze our sausages flat in freezer bags, or in lots of one, two or three sausages, but I'd end up with little packages of frozen snags all through the freezer and they'd still be hard to separate.
Once I started using the liners from cereal boxes as go-between, I realised I had a very simple solution to the problem that cost nothing and was also reusable.
I cut the bags open, wash them, dry them.
When I'm packing sausages for the freezer I lay the bag out flat, put a sausage on the end, roll it over, put another sausage on, roll it over, put another sausage on, roll it over until I've either used the bag or all the sausages. Then I close the ends with bread ties I've saved and pop the giant sausage roll in the freezer. Once it is frozen I put the entire thing into a freezer bag and close it (double wrapping will help prevent freezer burn).
When I need two or four or even one sausage it just unrolls and separates really easily. No more having to defrost a clump when I only need a couple and no more having little packages of sausages floating around the freezer.
Once all the sausages have been used, I take the liner and wash it in the kitchen sink, in hot water with detergent, rinse under hot water and peg on the line to dry in the sun, ready to be used for the next giant sausage roll. They last for ages before I eventually put them into the recycle bin.
Contributed by Cath Armstrong