How to cook pork sausage on the stove

Sausages are tricky. Well, they were tricky, until we learned how to cook sausages properly. Before we found The Method, whenever we made sausages they would end up charred on the outside but raw on the inside.

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Or the casings would split. Or by the time they were cooked through, they’d be dry as all hell. Sound familiar? Yeah. It doesn't have to be that way.

The problem with simply cooking them over direct heat in a pan or on a grill—the mistake most people make—is that you either end up blasting them, hoping for the best, and winding up with sad, dry meat, or you find yourself in the uncomfortable situation of squinting at the cut-into piece of sausage on your plate wondering whether or not you're going to give all of your guests food poisoning.

Not ideal.

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That's why we use a two-step, simmer-then-sear technique in which the links get gently cooked in water first, and then crisped in a hot pan right before they're served. And it's never let us down.

Here's how to do it.

To start, drop your sausages into a large pot or saucepan and fill it with

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