Sausages

[TimberWolf]

Does anyone know why sausages are bent in the middle ?

So that they don't roll away?

If they skin is under tension, everything would need to be homogeneous for there not to be a bit of a bend. Also, if the little knot at the end were not placed exactly in the middle of the sausage, that would tend to pull it out of shape IMO. Perhaps a little less tension in the skin would help too.

I tried to calculate how much longer the skin would be on one side of a bent sausage, but it's surprisingly difficult to do because the ends will deform in a tricky way. But order of magnitude wise and assuming a spherical sausage (in terms of it's radius of curvature), with a radius of curvature 1m, length 10 cm, width 1cm (round numbers) the sausage would be about 1mm longer on one side, or be under more tension on one side. For an even bendier sausage, radius of curvature 10cm, it would be 1cm longer on one side. The latter case suggests something seriously wrong with the sausage machine as the sausage is bent in a circle of arc angle of 1 radian.

[doodab]

Looks alright to me.

[TimberWolf]

Looks alright to me.

Did it start off in life straight though?

[Ruprect]

So that they don't roll away?

If they skin is under tension, everything would need to be homogeneous for there not to be a bit of a bend. Also, if the little knot at the end were not placed exactly in the middle of the sausage, that would tend to pull it out of shape IMO. Perhaps a little less tension in the skin would help too.

I tried to calculate how much longer the skin would be on one side of a bent sausage, but it's surprisingly difficult to do because the ends will deform in a tricky way. But order of magnitude wise and assuming a spherical sausage (in terms of it's radius of curvature), with a radius of curvature 1m, length 10 cm, width 1cm (round numbers) the sausage would be about 1mm longer on one side, or be under more tension on one side. For an even bendier sausage, radius of curvature 10cm, it would be 1cm longer on one side. The latter case suggests something seriously wrong with the sausage machine as the sausage is bent in a circle of arc angle of 1 radian.

Dude, you seriously need to get out more