Reply to: Sausages

[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

[TimberWolf]

Looks alright to me.

Did it start off in life straight though?

[doodab]

Looks alright to me.

[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.

[Churchill]

You can get a square sausage north of the border. Not one of their better products, tbh.

Nice on a roll with grated cheese and red sauce!

[AtW]

NSFW

[Arturo Bassick]

You're absolutely right, they just sit there in hot water and stinking out the whole office. The next thing the clanging of cutlery on crockery, lips licking. I'm trying to hold down my cornflakes while this is going on.

Breakfast of champions mate. Weiss würst and a weiss bier.
Just put plenty of the sweet mustard on em if you don't like em.
It's rude not to join in and tradition says eat odd numbers but more than one.

[scooterscot]

Is this scooter falling out of love with Bavaria?

You will learn to love them.

Never came to Munich with the rose tinted glasses, miss Berlin if honest.

Nothing will ever persuade me to accept the Weißwurst, can still taste it repeating on me. Ugh.

[doodab]

You're absolutely right, they just sit there in hot water and stinking out the whole office. The next thing the clanging of cutlery on crockery, lips licking. I'm trying to hold down my cornflakes while this is going on.

Is this scooter falling out of love with Bavaria?

You will learn to love them.

[MrMark]

good advice

he told me to fook off and invent the straight susage


swine

You can get a square sausage north of the border. Not one of their better products, tbh.

[scooterscot]

They are quite nice with a weissbeir and brezn.

You don't boil them though, they burst. It's just warm / hot water to warm them up.

You're absolutely right, they just sit there in hot water and stinking out the whole office. The next thing the clanging of cutlery on crockery, lips licking. I'm trying to hold down my cornflakes while this is going on.

[PRC1964]

They make them curved so you can fit more in the frying pan.

Surely everyone knows that?

[d000hg]

I asked the butcher why the whole end of my sausages were fat and breadcrumbs

he said that with the recession, its difficult to make both ends meet


swine

Did you start this thread just to make that joke?

I'll wait for you to appear on Dragon's Den. "Deborah, would you like to see my sausage?"

[minestrone]

The pressure inside will push the weakest side of the gut more in the same way long ballons have a turn, also the linking (the bunches of 3 you see them in) will do that as well.

The Vietnamese keep their crap for a year until it has broken down then spread it on their fields.

[Paddy]

It's to do with the curvature of the animal intestines used as casings I imagine.

Yes, it’s nice to know that the sausage skin was once used to carry animal poo.