I have a vacuum sealer! We have processing “parties” next door at the brother’s .... big bottle of wine for starters. We each have vacuum sealers & when one starts heating up, we use the other. My SIL & I take turns buying the vacuum seal rolls - we cut our own bags as we need different sizes. He’s got a big grinder (Cabelas) so that makes short work of that part of the processing. Running the grinder & getting the meat through it is my job - first grind is large, then we split the ground meat, add my SIL’s sausage seasoning to half of it & mix. The next grind is finer (looks like ground beef from the store). We do the plain meat first, then put the sausage meat through last, which also helps mix in the spices.
Usually the bottle of wine is consumed by the end. The process has gotten pretty speedy as we’ve done quite a few deer over the last couple of years since he got the grinder.
Reminds me of ‘Sausage Day’ at my Grandma’s. That was always a lot of fun and some GOOD EATIN’ later in the season.
She made the BEST Bratwurst you can imagine. :)