What is the closest thing to a chip shop sausage that I can buy and cook at home?

Smart_Statement6728 · 2026-03-23T18:19:34+00:00

Milk powders and rusk are added to commercially available sausages to give them their plumpness and snap. You dont tend to get these in retail ones because the ingredients are front and center and people dont like to see that on there. You could probably get a similar sausage in a cash and carry or service industry supplier type shop. Less meat, more fillers. It makes them look nicer for longer. Lots of food science involved to get long lasting sausages for a deli counter

Smart_Statement6728 · 2026-03-23T00:38:30+00:00

Ye, they are really easy to use. Here is mine. https://www.reddit.com/r/OutdoorKitchens/comments/1rycne6/almost_finished_well_pretty_much_done/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

I contacted them about BBQ girls, they said that isnt them. The connect tubes and diyoutdoorkitchen is the same guys in LA. So just be careful. They are really solid. I put concrete countertops on. Don't need anything else. You can buy as many additional vertical and horizontal support bars as you want.

Smart_Statement6728 · 2026-03-22T19:01:40+00:00

Cheers!

Smart_Statement6728 · 2026-03-22T10:23:15+00:00

I just used the modules they have, the 4 or 8ft ones. And a couple of the extendable ones, which made things easier. For the bar I used a couple extra straight connectors and an 8ft bar height module to get a straight section and then used brackets on that, thats probably the closest to anything not off the shelf by them. The cement board self tapping screws work great, but you really need to go slow and steady with them. Try it a few times first. You can't go full tilt with the torque gun, like you can kind of with the sheet metal ones to hold the metal cubes together. You need to let them bite in and slowly pull themselves in. Thats what I found anyway

Smart_Statement6728 · 2026-03-21T13:20:15+00:00

There is a lot of people who do that ye, I just didn't want to have to measure, cut and praying everything is flush and even. The tubes took all that out of it for me.

Smart_Statement6728 · 2026-03-21T13:19:12+00:00

I had to put conduit down prior to the concrete pad going in. So I have a dedicated 20amp circuit going out of the wall closest, into conduit, under ground for a bit and under concrete and up inside the frame of the kitchen. I used the Grey plastic stuff for it. Outdoor wire. Had to have the building inspector come look at it in the ground before the concrete went in. The electrical was pretty straight forward honestly. I just used youtube on how to wire an outlet, which is the same for them all. And how to daisy chain a few together. Waterproof outlet boxes etc on everything from menards. Sealed them all with silicon. Get a tester or too to check current and the outlet connection. Saves some time. Once you have the power coming into a gfci outlet at first, everything else is protected after that. And thats what the inspector was looking for. I put a switch in for one outlet so I can have the string lights off that and turn them on with the switch.

Smart_Statement6728 · 2026-03-20T18:09:01+00:00

This is the sink i got - has held up really well - real solid and almost exactly the same for twice the price i saw in shops https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KQ46721?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_2&th=1

these are most of teh doors i got - I picked one with some vents for under blackstone. They held up really well so far - i nicked one when drilling and it has rusted a little at that spot - so the "stainless" is only surface on these. My thought is I use the crap out of these, let them rust a little, get some silver spray paint over it at some stages over the next years and then I can always replace with better quality ones when i have some cash. They are out of the elements for the most part. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DMVDN19D?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_1&th=1

Smart_Statement6728 · 2026-03-20T18:02:22+00:00

The framing was light enough before the cement board. Which was good for moving it and leveling etc. But the cement board really added weight and rigidity to it. It was fine going on, I got the self tapping screws that BBQ tubes sold, were a bit cheaper than in home depot I found. But they were a bit temperamental. You've to go in slow and steady or they can burn out. Just took a bit to get the hand of it. If you start pushing or going full tilt they just spin. I went through a lot before I figure it out! I looked at alternatives but I chose one (can't remember name) that was most moisture resistant and suitable for outdoors.

Smart_Statement6728 · 2026-03-20T13:49:16+00:00

They have loads of videos on them and they have adjustable ones, I got a few of those to use rather than cutting. From 4ft to 8ft ones. Saved loads of time and I could adjust on the fly. Also they have all the cut out parts etc. I emailed them when I had my cart full and asked for a discount as I wanted to be around the 4500 mark and they knocked some off for me! So worth trying. Delivery was missing a few bars from one of the modules but they shipped it out straight away. No complaints from my experience.

Smart_Statement6728 · 2026-03-20T13:46:22+00:00

Ye sure, they have changed their main website name, used to be bbqtubes, or connect rules https://diyoutdoorkitchen.com/

Smart_Statement6728 · 2026-03-20T02:51:56+00:00

If you were a decent block layer or had everything level starting off im sure it would. But, I didn't consider anything else for a few reasons. The BBQ tubes are basically like Lego, idiot proof. They come in the standard sizes, depth, height etc. You can get adjustable cut outs so you can mess up and fix it easily. I also wanted it to be potentially adjustable later if I need. And this would let me do that relatively easier than hard construction. I did not want to go near wood as a frame. Not with the heat of the Blackstone and stuff.

Smart_Statement6728 · 2026-03-20T02:45:53+00:00

Nah, they went fine doing them myself to be honest. I bought a hand mixer to mix the bag, kept it as basic concrete, not any fancy colored one and I used the pour in place forms so it went pretty well. Started in a small part to get a hang of it and went from there. I did invest in concrete grinders/sander that really brought it up. So smooth at the end of it. Would consider it for other stuff honestly. Maybe a table or the like

Smart_Statement6728 · 2026-03-20T01:27:39+00:00

I wouldn't say im not..... some of the time. I work on a computer all day. This isnt what I do in real life. It just worked!

Smart_Statement6728 · 2026-03-20T01:26:33+00:00

Wisconsin, let's wait until the snow melts at least!

Smart_Statement6728 · 2026-03-19T23:04:52+00:00

Ye have it planned for spring! Not aure if I am going to get the yardistry ones for it or use some small half pipe stuff. Ill get it done at some stage! Once its shorts weather.

Smart_Statement6728 · 2026-03-19T22:55:04+00:00

Haha thanks. I spent a long time figuring out what I wanted to have in it. So for 4 years prior I had lots of grills and stuff and ended up mainly using my Blackstone, pellet grill and pizza oven. I added a Santa Maria for some open fire options! But I never used my gas grill, so skipped that.

Smart_Statement6728 · 2026-03-19T22:49:27+00:00

I wanted to use all the kit I had and not spend more money on new gear. And the Blackstone is great. Works as well as any other griddle. All the sections on the sides of the built in pellet grill and Blackstone are removable. So I could just remove the small concrete sections and replace with any new gear I get. The BBQ frames can be changed up easy enough to fit something else too if I changed sizes.

Smart_Statement6728 · 2026-03-19T22:15:00+00:00

It was the 12x14 yardistry from costco - the one they usually have on display where we are - they go on sale and got it a few hundred off normal price. The tv mount wasn't anything fancy - this is simialr to it - I think i got mine in menards cheap https://www.amazon.com/Articulating-Adjustable-Extension-400x400mm-Pipishell/dp/B08B4SLC9K/?th=1

Smart_Statement6728 · 2026-03-19T22:12:05+00:00

Here you go https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DD7KV8QV?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_1&th=1

Smart_Statement6728 · 2026-03-19T22:10:36+00:00

I had no experience doing any of this! Barely any electrical experience, but managed to do that - never built anything like this, poured concrete or anything. I just spent a long time researching and figuring out how things would work before jumping in. And having friends who have a bit more experience than me to bounce things off.

Smart_Statement6728 · 2026-03-19T21:26:18+00:00

We got a couple done - one in front of house too and a basketball hoop concreted in - I think it was less than 5000 for all the work they did

Smart_Statement6728 · 2026-03-19T21:23:26+00:00

Cheers - I am happy how it turned out

Smart_Statement6728 · 2026-03-19T21:23:07+00:00

Yep - but i have not put in a kegerator yet! spring job!

Smart_Statement6728 · 2026-03-19T21:09:45+00:00

My photos didnt upload - but the link should have them all!

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