Nowadays boiled sausages have become very popular. They are cooked at a temperature of 80 degrees from minced meat, well salted. You can store such sausages for no more than three days. Semi-smoked and boiled-smoked sausages are stored in the refrigerator for up to three weeks. The longest shelf life - up to one month - for smoked sausages. But no matter what the timeframe, you must follow the rules of storage of products.
Basic rules for storage of sausage
- If the sausage is "worn out" or a little dried, you must put it in a bowl of cold milk for thirty minutes.
- If there is mold on the sausage, dip it for a couple of minutes in very salty water. After this, remove and wipe with a napkin.
- If the sausage becomes slippery, you must wash it in cold water and then fry with the addition of vegetable oil.
- To ensure that the cut end of the sausage does not dry out, it is necessary to grease it with egg white or fat.
- If the sausage was bought in advance, and it will need to use it only after a couple of weeks, then it is necessary to do the following: take three tablespoons of salt and dilute them in half a liter of cold boiled water. In this solution, lower the sausage for a few minutes, take it out, allow it to dry, wrap it in paper and place it in the refrigerator. After such a procedure, the sausage will remain fresh with good taste qualities for a long time.
If the sausage has changed color or smell, then it can not be used in any way. You can not save anymore, you just have to throw it away without thinking! Otherwise, you risk getting severe food poisoning.
How to store raw sausage
The history of raw sausages goes back to ancient Rome. In medieval Europe, many smoked sausage, in Russia it appeared in the times of Peter the Great, thanks to the Germans. The recipes for preparing sausages are varied, almost every nation has its own. For example, Viennese sausages, Italian mortadella, Spanish chorizo. Tasty delicacy sausages are stored for a long time, but you need to know the rules of their storage and stick to them.
Storage of raw sausage with a stick
- A stick of smoked sausage is not necessary to store in the refrigerator. It is enough to hang it in a room with a temperature of 10 to 15 degrees Celsius, which is well ventilated. And then the delicacy can be stored for up to three months. If you keep sausage longer, it will dry up so that it turns into a stone weapon. Return it to its original form can only be wrapped in a damp linen cloth and cleaning in the refrigerator. Such sausage, of course, can be chewed, although it will already lose its flavor.
- There is another way to soften a very tough sausage - treat it with steam. To do this, it is necessary to boil the water in a saucepan, place a colander over it, in which to put the sausage and keep it over the steam for more than 20 minutes, then take it out and put it in the refrigerator still warm.
- If the smoked sausage in the fridge is stored in a fruit compartment, it can last almost a year. It is possible to observe a whitish coating on the shell, but it is easy to get rid of it by wiping a stick of sausage with a cloth soaked in vegetable oil.
- The already cut sausage stick should be wrapped with a food film on the cut and placed immediately in the refrigerator, then it will be preserved for a long time. Or you can clean the sausage in a container.
Storage of raw sausage sausage, cut into pieces
If the sausage is in a vacuum package, it can be stored without opening for a long time, according to the terms indicated on the package. Sliced raw sausage can be wrapped with waxed paper or stored in a plastic container for 5-7 days. You can freeze slices of sausage, pre-wrapped them in foil. So the shelf life will last up to 4-6 months. Before eating, sausage should be thawed, having held it for 3 hours just in the fridge.