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Can you recommend me a good online butcher?
« on: 27 November, 2016, 09:00:01 am »
During our last visit in Britain, it was in September, on the way back to Dover, we stopped in a small village near Ashford. The local butcher there had a wonderful display of 12 or 15 kinds of sausages, all were looking appealing, so we filled up our ice box with sausages and black pudding.  Retrospectively, the sausages were all excellent! Now, the freezer is empty, everything we can buy around here is bland and tasteless, and we are not planning to go back to Britain before months.  If only a butcher, anywhere in Britain, would accept to sell online, (and deliver oversea!), we would be very happy! Anyone has a recommendation?

Re: Can you recommend me a good online butcher?
« Reply #1 on: 27 November, 2016, 10:50:59 am »
We use this firm locally. They deliver to Europe. Not cheap but very good.

http://www.donaldrussell.com/delivery-policy


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Re: Can you recommend me a good online butcher?
« Reply #2 on: 27 November, 2016, 05:06:46 pm »
Lt. Col. Larrington (retd.) gets most of his meat from Donald Russell too and has rarely, if ever, had a bad experience.
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Re: Can you recommend me a good online butcher?
« Reply #3 on: 28 November, 2016, 08:04:12 am »
You could always try making your own.  You can buy the skins and the kit for stuffing them online, e.g.:

https://www.kookit.com/ustensiles-cuisine/tendances/fete-des-grands-meres/poussoir-a-saucisse-home-made-kitchen-craft
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Re: Can you recommend me a good online butcher?
« Reply #4 on: 28 November, 2016, 07:30:40 pm »
You could always try making your own.  You can buy the skins and the kit for stuffing them online, e.g.:
https://www.kookit.com/ustensiles-cuisine/tendances/fete-des-grands-meres/poussoir-a-saucisse-home-made-kitchen-craft

I once toyed with the idea of making my own, but never managed to find proper skins, and I have no local butcher I can ask for that. Do you have any idea? Maybe it is easier to find sausage-making stuff in Alsace!

In the mean time, we should certainly try Donald Russell. Thanks for the suggestion!

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Re: Can you recommend me a good online butcher?
« Reply #5 on: 28 November, 2016, 07:34:31 pm »
Not cheap is an understatement for DonaldRussel in my view.  They *are* good but unless things have changed from when I tried them 4 or 5 years ago - the prices...  :jurek:
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Re: Can you recommend me a good online butcher?
« Reply #6 on: 29 November, 2016, 08:12:20 am »
Sausage skins:

https://www.tompress.com/CT-2177-boyaux-naturels.aspx

We ordered ours just before I had my cardiac troubles last year and any sausage worth the name is about 30% fat, so they got binned without being used. :(

Worth having a poke around Tompress, they have some intriguing stuff.
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Re: Can you recommend me a good online butcher?
« Reply #7 on: 30 November, 2016, 04:37:09 pm »
Great! I will try the boyaux naturels from Tompress. I hope your health issues are sorted out now!

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Re: Can you recommend me a good online butcher?
« Reply #8 on: 30 November, 2016, 05:09:21 pm »
Thanks!  I'll know better come spring.

Good luck with the boyaux, and watch out for the Puncture Fairy.
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