[COMING SOON] Sausage Making!

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The Sausage Table: a heavy timber bench under a drying rail of hanging sausages, a cast-iron mincer at one end, a crank sausage stuffer at the other, a bowl of casings, a salt crock and a tray of mince, in a warm butcher's workshop
The Sausage Table: a heavy timber bench under a drying rail of hanging sausages, a cast-iron mincer at one end, a crank sausage stuffer at the other, a bowl of casings, a salt crock and a tray of mince, in a warm butcher's workshop1168×880 189 KB

Hi everyone,

Here’s a first look at the third station in the Butchery Overhaul: the Sausage Table. It’s still at the design stage, so everything below may change as we build it. This is the plan.

:axe: Where it fits

The Butchery Overhaul is a set of stations, each building on the last:

  1. The Butcher’s Block (live): break down carcasses and fish into real cuts.
  2. The Smokehouse (being built now): cure, smoke and carve.
  3. The Sausage Table (next): turn trim, fat and offcuts into sausages.
  4. An aging house (later): salami, prosciutto and long-aged meats. Age them as long as you like, for better quality, the way wine ages in the Aging Barrels.

:hot_dog: What the Sausage Table is

The concept we’ve chosen is a working butcher’s bench with:

  • A mincer, for grinding the trim and fat from the Butcher’s Block.
  • A stuffer, for filling casings, link by link.
  • A drying rail above, where finished sausages hang. You’ll see them there.
  • The seasonings at hand: salt, spice and herbs.

:salt: What we’re planning

  • Use the whole animal. The Block leaves you trim and fatback from every carcass. The Sausage Table is where they become something worth trading.
  • Sausages from every meat: pork, beef, lamb, venison and chicken, and some from fish.
  • Your seasoning is your recipe. The blend you choose shapes what you make.
  • Your meat’s quality carries through, as it does at the Block and the Smokehouse.
  • It works with the Smokehouse. Hang your fresh sausages over the fire for smoked sausage.
  • Butcher work, with Butcher CXP, like the rest of the overhaul.
  • A hands-on app in the style of the Butcher’s Block, with the bench showing your work as you go.

We’re also looking at how the sausages already in the game fit in.

:round_pushpin: Where it’s at

  • The concept is chosen.
  • The design comes next, after the Smokehouse is out.
  • Then the box, the app and the station itself, built and tested the same way as the Block and the Smokehouse.

Behind the scenes: our Citizen and World Builder members see every step of this as it happens. We post the progress on Discord, and sometimes here on the forums.

:speech_balloon: Tell us what you’d make

Is there a favourite sausage you’d want at the table? A regional style, a seasoning, a meat we haven’t listed? Reply here. Now is the best time to shape it.