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May 09, 2006

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Mekku

Don't forget the erudite discussion on the advantages and disadvantages in scoring your barbeque sausages. I thought that was one of the real high points... :-)

Sari

True, the cases for and against were both well argued :-)

Veriveli

What's wrong with "Forest Fire Warning"? The Finnish word doesn't say more, either.

Ai niin: tsemppiä synttärin johdosta vielä näin jälkikäteenkin.

Tero

So, when can we all benefit from the results of your barbeque sausage discussion?

jukkahoo

Now, the problem (as I see it) is that Sari eats what she calls "Real"(TM) sausage where the main ingredient is flour. So if you are (and I'm afraid you are) one of those ruffians that think that sausage is found at them bakery section of the supermarket instead of being bought straight out of the butcher, still dripping blood, this discussion maybe of interest.

Now, sausage as defined by Halme-Ahlström-Latikka Culinary Institute is made of a) meat, with preferably some b) added meat and most importantly c) meat.

Mekku

Ah - but there is also the deeper question of whether
a) you should make little incisions on the skin of the sausage to prevent bursting during cooking, or whether
b) the whole point of barbequing sausages is doing it in a temperature so perfect that the sausage will cook through without the fat boiling over and ripping the skin, or
c) those rips are the whole point of eating barbeque sausages and if you manage to create the culinary delight of a layer of soot on your sausage in the process, all the better.

Would this be the place for another poll? Results to be announced by Midsummer...

Sari

Meat, meat, meat... If you want to eat meat, eat meat! Why ruin the taste of beef or pork by stuffing it in a sausage? Just have a stake instead. Sausages should taste like that king of sausages HK-bleu :-)

Marko

On se aina vaan niin hassua kuinka jotkut koittavat nimittää epämääräisiä leivonnaisia makkaroiksi. Toki leivonnaisillakin on paikkansa, mutta makkaroiden pääraaka-aine on kyllä edelleenkin LIHA.

Omppu

Meat - mmmmm....!

I'm all for the skin-bursting-in-heat -kind of sausageheating (preparing? frying?). Also the layer of charcoal on a slightly cool and unbaked innards of a sausage is a classic, but personally I prefer the more evenly heated type.

Johan Anglemark

Eldningsförbud in Swedish. If you're looking for a 1-1 translation, there won't be one, because English doesn'ty have a single word for "making a fire".

Ben

"Varning för skogsbrand" in real Swedish ;) (not some western variant).

And talking about sausages, those should of course be eaten unheated. ;) But I have to admit that my taste has changed a bit during the years and for example yesterday I ate a very good "sauna sausage" heated in an aluminium bag on the sauna stove (the way sauna sausages should be prepared). The meat content was something like 70% which maybe isn't enough for some of you and probably too much for the rest, but I would definitely recommend Korpelan palvilenkki (the website has very close to no information, but I though I'd put in the link anyway).

Teemu

Funny, by the way, that in Finnish "Metsäpalovaroitus" literally does not forbid anything. It is merely a warning that the risk for forest fire is high. Implication in practice is, naturally, same as in "Eldningsförbud".

Sausages, then, are more a philosophical question. I must say that I agree with the Halme et al faction in this matter, although I admit that the amount of meat in a sausage can be quite small and one can still call it as a sausage. At least in Finland: I'm sure that Germans (nation with slightly longer tradition with sausages than the Finns have) would disagree with my liberal interpretation. Entschuldigung Sie Bitte!

Tero

Variety is the spice of sausage – along with salt and the occasional jalapeno, of course. Anything from the “proper flour sausages” to the more meaty “normal” ones to bratwurst and chorizos goes. “HK Blue” though… it’s an abomination that should be abolished from the face of this Earth!

Mekku

Pictures of the proposed lean-to (see original message, section 3) now available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/merjame/sets/72057594136374909/. Whaddya think? Does that view call for a barbequed sausage or what?

Mekku

I should add that I was much too ill to take such good pictures; their genius lies with my sister.

Hil

Hi Sari. I have to admit that Lordi brought me here ;-P. In Australia we have 'high fire risk days' and 'total fire ban days'. Would either of those do?
Cheers,
Hil

Sari

Hil :-)

Oh, Lordi got me few years back with their (first?) big hit which had the lyrics:
"would you love a monsterman
could you understand
the beuty of the beast"

I just thought that was pretty poetic from guys in latex.

Sari

Hil

LOL!

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