Germany: sausages in cans, cans, vacuum packs and by weight - what to choose?

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

What culinary associations do the average person think of when Germany is mentioned? Of course, this is potato salad, beer and German sausages. Every tourist and guest is greeted here with beer and a traditional grill party. The sausage variety in Germany is almost as great as the cheese variety in France, and therefore an inexperienced buyer may be confused. Which sausages are especially popular in Germany and what are they eaten with?

Paradise for sausage lovers

No German holiday is complete without sausages. Why, perhaps, not even a single breakfast in any German family can do without it. Tea sausage for breakfast, sandwich for dinner, grill on weekends.

There is a great variety and variety of sausages in Germany: from pork, beef, different types of poultry, from mixed minced meat, sausages that are ready to eat and require boiling or grilling. Cocktail sausages, cheese sausages, soy sausages - eachfind something to your liking.

German sausages in cans

It's hard to get lost among all this sausage variety. Very often in Germany you can find sausages in jars. This is one of the most common containers for sale and storage. Jars can be both canned and glass, the content does not change, as a rule, Vienna sausages (Wiener würstchen) are sealed inside - a sausage product made from a mixture of ground beef and pork.

Such sausages are a favorite delicacy of all German children, very often they are given for breakfast in the garden or school. Vienna sausages can be standard long, or they can be in a mini format - for children or a party. Such sausages are very convenient to use for serving canapes.

Canned sausages are usually stored in a special solution where they do not dry out, lose their taste and do not deteriorate. I must say that the shelf life of such products is quite long - 6-7 months

Grilled sausages

Such sausages are usually sold in vacuum packages. They can also be bought by weight at the butcher shop. Unlike ready-to-eat canned sausages, which are usually light brown in color, raw grilled sausages look completely unattractive - they are either white or have the appearance of dark minced meat in a transparent "intestine".

Such sausage must be fried on the grill, in the oven or, in extreme cases, in a frying pan before use. Grilled sausages are usually served with hot curry sauce.

These sausages have a limited shelf life of approximately 1 week and must be refrigerated.

Special notes

In order not to be disappointed when buying sausages in Germany, you should at least know a little German.

Please note that:

• Bockwürst - a traditional German boiled sausage made from a mixture of beef and pork.
• Geflügel würstchen - poultry sausage.
• Geräuchert - boiled smoked sausage.
• Bratwurst - grilled sausages.
• Schinken würstchen - only minced pork sausage.
• Rindswürstchen - beef sausages.

Now on the shelves of Russian supermarkets you can find sausages in cans made in Germany, most often in such giants as Metro or Auchan. Unfortunately, grilled sausages simply do not reach the Russian consumer due to their limited shelf life, but many stores offer good analogues of Russian production.