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High Temp Cheese That Holds Up to Heat and Delivers Big Flavor

Our high temp cheese is specially formulated to retain its shape and texture during smoking and cooking — even at temperatures up to 400°F. Perfect for stuffing into sausages, snack sticks, burgers, and more, it adds rich, melty pockets of flavor without breaking down under heat.

Available in cheddar, pepper jack, mozzarella, Swiss, and bleu, each variety is diced for easy blending and evenly distributed flavor in every bite.

What Makes It Different From Regular Cheese

Ordinary cheddar melts at around 150°F and runs out of the casing during smoking, leaving hollow pockets and greasy sausage. High temperature cheese is processed so the curd holds its structure to 400°F, giving you defined cheese pockets in the finished product instead of a smear. It's what makes jalapeño cheddar summer sausage and cheese snack sticks possible at home.

The usual rate is 10 to 15% by weight — roughly 1 to 1.5 lb per 10 lb of meat. Add it after the final grind and mix gently so the cubes stay whole.

What It Isn't For

If your recipe depends on the cheese melting — an Austrian Kasekrainer, for example — use real Emmental instead. High temp cheese is the right choice whenever you want the cheese to stay put.

Pair with summer sausage seasoning and fibrous casings, or 19mm collagen casings for snack sticks.

Smoke it. Cook it. Enjoy real cheese flavor that lasts — only from The Sausage Maker.

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Premium Natural Hog Casings, 1 Hank
Kirk Denham
The best

The best quality you can find!

Premium Natural Hog Casings, 1 Hank
Premium Natural Hog Casings, 1 Hank
Billy Rogers
Perfect clean casing

Perfect clean casing. Uniform length, no whiskers. Excellent product.

Premium Natural Hog Casings, 1 Hank
Natural Sheep Casings 18-20mm
Anonymous
Clean and work every time……

Clean and work every time…….

Natural Sheep Casings 18-20mm
Bactoferm - Flavor of Italy
Anonymous
Just got it for the 1st time…

Actually, I haven’t used it yet but I’m a 2GAAC follower and he uses it, so… But here’s some stuff made with T-SPX…

Bactoferm - Flavor of Italy
Fresh Collagen Casings 28mm
Howard Camardelle
Honest review

These are so easy to work with. Are they natural casings? No.

With that being said I didn’t feel comfortable some polish sausage on the grill and they did what a casing should do….they ate great. Also used smaller version of these for breakfast links. Fantastic.

Fresh Collagen Casings 28mm
DrySteak Wraps for Dry Aging Steaks
MARK KRATZ
Easy to use and apply

Easy to use and apply. Easy to follow instructions. It will be three more weeks to see how it worked.

DrySteak Wraps for Dry Aging Steaks
Fresh Collagen Casings 22mm
Howard Camardelle
The fresh collagen is a game changer

The fresh collagen is a game changer. Cased great and my breakfast links fired up perfectly. They ate as well as any commercially cased sausage I’ve ever eaten.

I’ll be ordering more of this and other sizes.

Fresh Collagen Casings 22mm
25 lb. Sausage Stuffer
Rick
We use this stuffer for processing at deer camp

We use this stuffer for processing at deer camp. Run 5 to 6 hundred plounds through it ever year. Make sticks, balogna and potato sausage with it. Also use it to stuff pack ground sausage into bulk bags. Has performed flawlessly for the last ten years.

25 lb. Sausage Stuffer
The Sausage Maker
Adrien Le Roy

Great customer service and would recommend to anyone!

The Sausage Maker
Bactoferm F-RM-52
Adrien Le Roy

Product had easy to follow instructions and the results came out great! Will definitely keep ordering from here once supplies run low!

Bactoferm F-RM-52
1 lb High Temp Cheese 2 Pack
Howard Camardelle
Excellent product

Excellent product. Variety is good!!

1 lb High Temp Cheese 2 Pack
Pretubed Natural Hog Casings 29-32mm
Owen Lewis
Pretubed casing

Pretubed casing worked out really nice and did the job. Had no casing blow outs and was easy to slide onto the casing horn. Pretube casing are a little spendy but for me worth the fewer steps of preparation from not being tubed.

Pretubed Natural Hog Casings 29-32mm
Pre-tied Collagen Casings 60mm
Chance
When using the smoker I purchased from the sausage maker

When using the smoker I purchased from the sausage maker, I only use sausage maker casings and other items. Just seems right :)

Pre-tied Collagen Casings 60mm
Gold Hygrometer
Anthony Spears
Gold Hygrometer

Hygrometer seems to work pretty good. Easy to read the dial. I haven’t had it very long but first indications is that looks and works pretty good.

Gold Hygrometer
Ground Mace
Cathy Novaresi
Best quality and best pricing

We make sausage as a family for the last 47 years! Over the 10+ years we have only purchased our spices from Sausage Maker. They have the best pricing and more importantly, the best quality.

Ground Mace