I do like the odd Sausage, moreso on a Roll, but I got a nice recipe for Sausage Hot Pot and decided to try it out. I normally buy fresh packs of Sausages from the Chiller, and I do like Richmond's, but they really are quite pricey thesedays, so I plumped for these. I knew you would still taste the Sausage in the Hot Pot, but I thought if they weren't that good then you may be distracted by the other ingredients.

I got these in the freezer section of Sainsbury's and they cost a bargain 98p for 20 Thick Sausages. Being frozen they have a great date on them, and with frozen Sausages I normally just pop a few out for a couple of hours and let them defrost at room temperature.

The packaging is alright. Since these are part of Sainsbury's budget range called Basics I knew they wouldn't be fancy. Theya re just in a white plastic bag which is easy enough to open. The writing is in orange on the bag.

Upon opening these you didn't get the nice smell you would normally get from Sausages since these were frozen. The Sausages were pretty thick and long enough as well. They had a slight pink tinge to them beneath the whiteness of the freeze of them. They felt and looked smooth and not knobbly.

You can cook these a few different ways such as in the Oven, Fry, Grill and I do mine in my George Foreman Grill. You can cook them from frozen, but I normally defrost as I tend to slit them down the middle to pop in the grill. They also cook quicker from defrost obviously.

There was a good amount of fat seemed to drip out of these into my fat tray. Being a Cheaper Pork product I was expecting them to be a little more fatty due to cheaper ingredients being used, but after they were cooked then they glistened a little with fat, but I considered them to taste pretty alright.

I don't currently have the pack so cannot comment on the ingredients or Nutritional information, but calorie and fat wise they were much the same as other Pork products. They didn't contain as much Pork as a brand name Sausage, but they didn't seem to be buled up with loads of nasties either.

Alright buy for the money. They were taste with a slight season to them, but I would always grill them, as I think they could end up a lot gresier when cooked another way.