Is it normal to find vienna sausages with gel inside instead of broth?!
Answers:
Gelatin is naturally in all meat including us.
Vienna sausages are place in the can raw, broth is added and they are cooked, sealed and cooled off. During the cooking process, the broth and juices from the meat mix and once they cool off gelatin forms; if you were to heat the can in a sauce pan with a 1/4 cup of water in the pan, as the sausages heated up, you'd see the gel turn to liquid; they are perfect fine to consume outside all the sodium and nitrates they have in them.
Every open a canned ham, again natural gelatin surrounds the ham from it being cooked in the can.
Just rise them off and enjoy.
Yes; the liquid turns into a gelatin substance sometimes called aspic. When cooled, stock that is made from meat congeals because of the natural gelatin found in the meat. Aspic, when used to hold meats, prevents them from becoming spoiled. The gelatin keeps out air and bacteria, keeping the cooked meat fresh.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspic
I don't think I've ever bought any that weren't like that. Gelatin is a meat by-product, and I think it has something to do with that. At any rate, all the Vienna sausages I can remember buying were like that.
Yes - it is normal.
It is part of the preservatives utilized for the storage / containment process.
Peace.
Yes, it's normal. If you heat them the gel will liquefy. The gel is actually quite tasty (meat jello) If you chill spam you will get gel also.
Yes, that's usually the norm..although it looks really weird, but there's no harm to the product.
http://www.armoursausages.com
Normal AND delicious!
That is how they come. I have Never seen them packed in broth.
yeah i had thought it was weird and kinda nasty. but its good i ate them. and i didnt get sick
Yes its because the can got cold. They are ok to eat.
no.but it sounds terrible
yes
i just pour it off and eat them
