How do you cook your sausages?

[TVR1]

I only ask as I was always a frying pan man. I have tried in the oven, under the grille on the BBQ but unless I have left them to get to room temperature first, something always goes wrong. Split skin, undercooked, overcooked. One way or another, it is very hit and miss.

This evening however, I think I may have stumbled upon perfection. I couldn't be arsed waiting from them to get to room temperature so thought why not microwave them? So, 3 minutes, with a few pricks, on high. Then in a smoking frying pan to brown.

Result? Perfectly cooked sausages, not greasy or dry and with a delicious slightly crunchy skin!

What is your method?

[Simpo Two]

Grill. And if the inside refuses to cook, cut them open and do 'butterfly' style.

[Changedmyname]

Only time a sausage dosen't cook ,if it's full of rusk, and I know cos I make 'em.

[SHutchinson]

Cook them on a low heat in the oven. An hour at 140/150 usually does.

Get up an hour early on a Sunday to put them in.

[Puggit]

BBQ - with gas you can light it up whenever you want!

[Kays vRS]

Into a hot frying pan, no oil, then turn down and cook on a low to medium heat. It isn't very often they split.

[S1_RS]

I do mine in the oven. I heat a little olive oil in the pan before rolling the sausages in the hot oil. When they're done I make a gravy from the juices in the pan.

[Flibble]

George Foreman grill - sausage seems to be its best foodstuff to cook.

[anonymous-user]

perfect boil for 8 minutes finish under grill

for quickness medium grill

[Noger]

Frying pan, a little oil, very slowly. 45 minutes at least. Only way to get the sticky goey outsidey bits.

Although oven if feeling lazy and there is something else in there.

[paulmurr]

Cast iron frying pan on the lowest heat your hob can do with a diffuser. Half an hour each side. They come out perfect with no splitting skins.

[jmorgan]

Skillet, low heat, little oil, turn often. Use butchers proper home made.


(cast iron skillet of course)

[cal216610]

Grill, middle heat with the tray near the bottom.
I only use butchers sausages.

[Vieste]

Proper butchers sausages and in the frying pan.

[otolith]

Butcher's sausages, frying pan or low oven. Cooking them slowly is the important thing, I think.

[Glassman]

40 ways to cook a sausage?

Frying pan. Grill. Oven. Barbecue.

As long as I get a cooked sausage, all good.

[Mobile Chicane]

In a cast-iron dish with blob of goose fat to stop them sticking, then into a low oven for an hour.

[escargot]

My favourite way is nice and slow in the oven. Especially when they go all sticky and gooey.

Normally though, I tend to just grill them.

[Pothole]

bit of light browning on the hob in the baking tray, then in the oven for half an hour or so.

[IainT]

Mobile Chicane said:

In a cast-iron dish with blob of goose fat to stop them sticking, then into a low oven for an hour.

This is the winner for me although the oil/fat is anice to have rather than required.