On Jun 21, 2:03 pm, "Joseph" <jrpitz...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I smoke sausages as secondary meat in with the butts, ribs etc... I
have never rubbed, marinated or flavored them with anything but smoke and
am thinking they should get a little more attention. I like the results
of smoking'em but is there anything else worth trying? I am a avid less
is more kind a guy when it come to food prep. Now that I have ventured
into true BBQ, I am wondering if I should do a little something extra with
the brats or sausages.
>
> Joseph
Just my opinion on this, but we have a long line of standing tradition
with Polish and German sausages here in South Texas. Think Wurstfest,
which is held about 25 minutes from my front door every year:
http://www.wurstfest.com/wurststory.htm
It is authentic enough that we now have about 200,000 visitors from
Europe every year, mostly Germany. Overall attendance from everywhere
for the week is about 3 million visitors, or so they claim. (These
might be based on daily ticket sales, so there could be repeats.)
The undisputed stars of the show are sausage and beer, in that order.
Bratwursts are few and far between, and pretty much a no show. They
are cooked for those that don't like the traditional German/Czech/
Polish style sausage and cooking methods we have here.
I have never understood why someone puts a sausage in beer. You have
two nearly perfect creations that you have now made mediocre by
combining them. Damn you network cooks!
The point is that when they are cooked around here, no one I know does
anything to them. A good sausage is already heavily spiced with all
manner of things from jalepenos and black pepper to monsterously heavy
doses of garlic/***in/onion/cayenne with all points in between.
A good sausage needs no help. A while on the grill to get a smoky
taste to it, a quick trip directly over the fire to crisp up the skin,
and that's it.
Mind you, we aren't talking about Hill****re Farms or Eckerdt or some
of those mass produced supermarket sausages. Those need all the help
they can get.
Robert
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