Cutting sausages neatly

[elmoputney]

I have been off work with the old Co vid this week. And I've been spending time looking at bait making, god knows why but there we are, I think it started with something about an electric caulking gun I saw, then I went full production mode, then I saw a comment saying "if you are making your own, the last thing you want to do is make them round"  

So I got to thinking what is the best way to cut paste sausages without them all going out of shape (like with a knife) has anyone used a pizza cutter for this task? 

I've seen the method where you boil the sausage first and then chop but I would like to boil after cutting if possible to seal the boilies if I can. 

I've developed a simple nut mix using AA Baits base mix with a couple of extras but keeping it simple. Probably won't save much in cash terms but I would have a fresher, better bait which might increase catch rate and be more attractive to the carps and different to most anglers on the bank with their round balls. 

[framey]

Years ago 

I just used a knife to cut them and then roll between the palms.

the only reason for round boilies is ease in a stick to get them out lol

 

cant see any benefit in boiling twice personally

[salokcinnodrog]

3 hours ago, elmoputney said:

I have been off work with the old Co vid this week. And I've been spending time looking at bait making, god knows why but there we are, I think it started with something about an electric caulking gun I saw, then I went full production mode, then I saw a comment saying "if you are making your own, the last thing you want to do is make them round"  

So I got to thinking what is the best way to cut paste sausages without them all going out of shape (like with a knife) has anyone used a pizza cutter for this task? 

I've seen the method where you boil the sausage first and then chop but I would like to boil after cutting if possible to seal the boilies if I can. 

I've developed a simple nut mix using AA Baits base mix with a couple of extras but keeping it simple. Probably won't save much in cash terms but I would have a fresher, better bait which might increase catch rate and be more attractive to the carps and different to most anglers on the bank with their round balls. 

 

25 minutes ago, framey said:

Years ago 

I just used a knife to cut them and then roll between the palms.

the only reason for round boilies is ease in a stick to get them out lol

 

cant see any benefit in boiling twice personally

As @framey says the only reason for round is they catapult or go out in the stick straight.

Boiling the sausages and then cutting does allow a bit of extra attraction as the cut edges aren't 'sealed' skin. 

I used to use a knife years ago to cut my sausages to roll between my palms, but the Gardner rolling table stopped the need to do that.

There is nothing wrong with 'pillows', rolling sausages and using the table to cut the sausages without rolling them, if anything its easy to do.

[elmoputney]

2 hours ago, framey said:

Years ago 

I just used a knife to cut them and then roll between the palms.

the only reason for round boilies is ease in a stick to get them out lol

 

cant see any benefit in boiling twice personally

I think I might not have been clear enough lol, I don't want to boil them twice, I would just prefer to cut the sausage first when it's still a paste so I can boil it afterwards. So I can get a full skin on the baits, I would also like to keep them kinda cylindrical 

 

1 hour ago, salokcinnodrog said:

 

As @framey says the only reason for round is they catapult or go out in the stick straight.

Boiling the sausages and then cutting does allow a bit of extra attraction as the cut edges aren't 'sealed' skin. 

I used to use a knife years ago to cut my sausages to roll between my palms, but the Gardner rolling table stopped the need to do that.

There is nothing wrong with 'pillows', rolling sausages and using the table to cut the sausages without rolling them, if anything its easy to do.

The main reason I don't want to boil them first and leave some unsealed is because of the Rudd, they would destroy them in minutes. I might some and treat them as pellets but the bulk I want to seal. 

I think if I am going to do it it's got to be easy, so i want to just mix, sausage, chop and boil, pillows might not be so bad but I would like to try and keep them dumbellish, so I am trying to think of a way to cut the sausages with minimal deformation.