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boston butts on sale again.time to make sausage. bought 180lbs of butts. called around and sold over 100lbs of sausage. i'll put me 10lbs in 1lb packs and 10lbs of breakfast links in the freezer. make enough to pay for the days work and get all of mine free.

Very nice.
How much sausage do you expect from 180# of butts?

I ended up grinding 135lbs and put 4 butts in the freezer wholefor bbq.

Damn, dude. Nice work.

From the quick response, I'd say you're putting out a pretty good product.

Maybe a silly question . . . how much trimming do you do on the butts? I think I am too picky on trying to trim off connective tissue.

Very little if any trimming unless there's a very thick fat cap. It all gets ground up.

Know fat, know flavor. No fat, no flavor

I normally buy mine with the skin still on. I remove this & chunk to grind, bones go to the dog.

i remove the stretchy strip of fat that is in a butt about 2in in from the fat cap. some butts have more fat than i like on the cap so i will just fillet a slab off. everything else goes in sausage except any blood spots. i do not trim my bones real close because i boil them off later and make ponhoss. i did that this morning and ended up with 24lbs.around here ponhoss sells as good as sausage.my buddy makes his own sausage to and he made 80lbs today.he doesn't make ponhoss but he saves all his trimmings and bones for me. i'll make more ponhoss in a few days i guess.