How do I get sausages to cook evenly in a pan?
Whenever I cook sausages in the oven, they cook evenly. The issue is that sausages take about forty minutes in the oven. However, whenever I use a pan, they do not take an age to be cooked but they never seem to be cooked thoroughly (some appear to be raw in the centre as well as not being evenly brown). So, how do I cook sausages in a pan?
EDIT: Adding water with the olive oil really does work.
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The four sausages in the picture above are OVERCOOKED! In fact, I'd call 'em Arfur Sausages, like King Arthur with the cakes he burnt.
I use a ribbed griddle pan for this. Then you can rotate the sausages with tongs, and the ribs keep them on the straight and narrow.
Whenever I have cooked sausages in a pan, I have always added some water in the pan that way they cook through on the inside. Once they are cooked through and the water has evaporated, I keep them in the pan to crisp up the outside.
I tend to poach them for about 10 minutes, (poach, not boil), and then fry them over a medium heat for about another 10 minutes.
I've found the best way to cook sausages in a pan is to do it very slowly over a low heat, turning occasionally. This gets them nice and sticky and means it's easier to get an even browning.
Incidentally, doing sausages in the oven shouldn't take 40 minutes - about 20 mins at 200C does the job admirably.
Not 100% sure what you mean by 'evenly', but assuming you mean they brown in some parts and not others then what you need to do is pretty labor intensive. You basically have to stand there with tongs and continue to turn the sausages the entire time they are cooking. If they are not perfectly round they may want to roll over in which case you'll either need to squash them into shape or just hold them in place with the tongs so they don't roll over.
If instead you mean that some sausages cook more than others then you just need to move the sausages around, trading the under cooked ones with the ones that are cooking faster.
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