Breakfast Sausage Brands: Do they all suck?

[kayb]

It's been my experience that the worst breakfast sausage from an artisan maker is better than the best mass market you can get. I buy mine from the farmer from whom I buy all my pork and chicken (beef comes from a different guy). He vac-packs his in roughly one-pound packages, so you have to make your own patties.

[rotuts]

well good. but your are probably awake to enjoy them.

gf's probably not.

just saying.

[gfweb]

I am approaching wakefulness at sausage time. Two cups of coffee minimum prior to breakfast.

If I find a local artisan, his sausage I shall try.

[lindag]

I don't understand why it 'has' to be sausage in a roll.

If you can adjust, you could try Farmland links (a very highly rated brand, I might add). The have a maple flavored sausage that I like and their original is also excellent. A staple in my house. Loads better than Jimmy Dean's.

[gfweb]

I don't understand why it 'has' to be sausage in a roll.

If you can adjust, you could try Farmland links (a very highly rated brand, I might add). The have a maple flavored sausage that I like and their original is also excellent. A staple in my house. Loads better than Jimmy Dean's.

Adjust?

I suppose that link sausage would be OK.

But that's change...at a critical time of day.

Not sure its prudent.

[annabelle]

Not at all. Roll sausage is much more useful than links.

[lindag]

They make patties as well, just not a roll.

And if you're just slicing off a chunk of two and cooking it up (as mentioned by the OP), what difference does it make that it's in a roll.

[annabelle]

It's always cheaper to buy in bulk, as a roll, than already sliced. At least I have found this to be the case.

I don't eat sausage for breakfast, but I often use it in risottos, soups and other applications where it is crumbled.

That was my point and not the OPs.

[Burke]

A 'little' more work than just slicing of a piece from a roll but worth it. Bacon, Sausage, Potatoes, ham, veggies all in one.

http://cowgirlscountry.blogspot.com/2011/06/fried-potato-and-smoked-ham-fattie-on.html

[rotuts]

Big Yum to the above.

[Kim Shook]

A roll is important if you have biscuits!