Salting for Hog Casings

Salting Method

According to the different processing methods, casings can be divided into salted casings and dry casings. Casings marinated with salt-specific casings are called salted casings; The casing that uses natural light or drying room to dehydrate the casing and dry and sterilized is called dry casing. The processing of salted casings is relatively easy, but the packaging, storage, storage and transportation of salted casings are difficult. Dry casings are less difficult to pack, store, store and transport, but dry casings have a narrow sales channel.

Salting Casing

When starting to salt the pig casing, untie the knots of the intestines, marinate the salt for the first time, spread the casings with the handles, evenly sprinkle with the salt for the remade casings, and the dosage of each handful (10 pig small intestines processing 1 casing semi-finished product) is 750 g; After marinating for 1 day, sprinkle salt (mainly at knots) on the second day of the next day, using 250 g per handful. At this time, the casing that has been salted twice is loaded into the tile cylinder, compacted and stored in a cleaning and ventilated place to avoid damage to the casing, the temperature can be kept at 0~10 °C, and the relative humidity is 85%~90%.

Drying Casing

Wash the clean small intestine and immerse it in clean water for 1~2 days. Then, peel off the grease, serous membrane and fascia outside the intestinal tube and rinse clean. Flip the intestinal tube, put 20 sticks into a pot, mix with a lubricating bamboo stick, and rinse for 70 minutes. Then put it in the clean water tank and repeat the water change for cleaning. It is then immersed in clean water for about 24 hours, during which the water is changed. After draining the water, put the casing in the tank and add salt for 24 hours. Then rinse the salt with water.

After washing, the pig casing is blown with an air pump to swell the casing. Place in clean water, check the casing for loopholes, and finally hang it in a ventilated place to dry. After boring, use a needle hole at the end of the casing to expel the air, and then spray water evenly, and flatten the casing by hand or a bowel press, and bandage it into a handle. The processed casing should be checked frequently to avoid metamorphosis.