Intestines

Appears in
Professional Cooking: 10th Edition

By Wayne Gisslen

Published 2025

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The most common use for intestines is to make sausage casings. These are discussed in Chapter 28.

Chitterlings are pork intestines that are treated like tripe. They are blanched or simmered, and then braised or fried. Chitterlings are generally available in 10-lb (4.5-kg) pails. Because they shrink a great deal when simmered, this quantity yields only 3 lb (1.3 kg) or less of finished product.