Science Geeks, or not: Why do link sausage roll around in the pan by themselves?

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Denise1952

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It's pretty cool because I don't have to keep turning them over:giggle:
 

Big Horn said:
Mine don't.
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That's just sad, LOL!! So you have to turn yours:( I was chasing mine around to catch them when they were done. And you can't predict which way they'll go.
 

Haha, I have to admit, I have never had self-turning sausages!! I buy the Annoying Sausages that refuse to be turned over; I try to roll them over to brown the other side and they just return to the original side. Ack. :D
 
C'est Moi said:
Haha, I have to admit, I have never had self-turning sausages!! I buy the Annoying Sausages that refuse to be turned over; I try to roll them over to brown the other side and they just return to the original side. Ack. :D
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Mine have always done that too!! But this batch are different. They are jet-propelled, LOL!! I do exaggerate, but hey, sausage-rolling is safer for me than log rolling!! I've never understood men doing that when one slip and no more family jewels:(
 
I think it's all about the amount of liquid trapped in the casings. If there's a lot of liquid, they move. We always pierced our sausage links a few times before we put them in the hot skillet; they behave better if you do that.
 
Smiling Jane said:
I think it's all about the amount of liquid trapped in the casings. If there's a lot of liquid, they move. We always pierced our sausage links a few times before we put them in the hot skillet; they behave better if you do that.
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You are right, I forgot about that Jane, LOL! I think it's more fun to chase them around though, if I'm in the right mood of course. Another reason it's probably good I live alone, or should I say, "who would live with that kind of nut" LOL!
 
Liquid yes. Also, maybe the pan is slightly warped or the stove is a bit uneven?

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The nerd has raised her hand -----

The Leidenfrost effect is a physical phenomenon in which a liquid, in near contact with a mass significantly hotter than the liquid's boiling point, produces an insulating vapor layer keeping that liquid from boiling rapidly. Due to this 'repulsive force', a droplet hovers over the surface rather than making physical contact with it. This is most commonly seen when cooking: one sprinkles drops of water in a pan to gauge its temperature: if the pan's temperature is at or above the Leidenfrost point, the water skittersacross the pan and takes longer to evaporate than in a pan below the temperature of the Leidenfrost point (but still above boiling temperature).

*The water is in the sausages.
 
Toomuchstuff said:
The nerd has raised her hand -----

The Leidenfrost effect is a physical phenomenon in which a liquid, in near contact with a mass significantly hotter than the liquid's boiling point, produces an insulating vapor layer keeping that liquid from boiling rapidly. Due to this 'repulsive force', a droplet hovers over the surface rather than making physical contact with it. This is most commonly seen when cooking: one sprinkles drops of water in a pan to gauge its temperature: if the pan's temperature is at or above the Leidenfrost point, the water skittersacross the pan and takes longer to evaporate than in a pan below the temperature of the Leidenfrost point (but still above boiling temperature).

*The water is in the sausages.
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I am so glad I had a sip of coffee before I read that tms! Really very interesting though. I suppose you know that Leidenfrost is going to be haunting my mind every time I turn on my pan now;) Pretty cool on that "repulsive" thing too;)
 
I prefer Toomuchstuff's nerd version, although I did enjoy hearing it read. It's interesting how you found even something like this in "video" audio version;) Youtube is making a killing, and some folks are doing well just making these videos! I don't know how they earn money, but you can find anything you want at Alice's, wait, my mind wandered, anything you want, at Youtube, lol;)
 
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A Short Ode To Sausage | A Poem by Daniel Klawitter

"Sad to say, there are people who regard lovers of sausages as relics
from a kind of nutritional Dark Ages…—Charles Simic, poet.

Theologically, I’d say I was predestined
to eat animals carefully stuffed
inside their own intestines.

I’m the first to eat knockwurst,
and the last in a cholesterol tsunami
to relinquish my salami to the authorities.

Whether beef, lamb or pork—
it will end up on my fork.
(I’m clear about my priorities.)

And for those who go into hysterics
proclaiming sausages barbaric,
I want you to understand:

That though you might be leaner
you can only have my wiener
if you pry it from my cold dead hands".
 
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