This time using COOP Butchers Choice Cumberland sausages so that I definitely fit with the proper sausage crowd but also not fancy so as to be thought of as too exclusive to represent to the real eater. Eight sausages, a variety of puncturing, and the results weren't stark. In fact they were pretty boring.
Here's the proof:
What ever you think the setup was here you're wrong. It's clear to see the 4th from the left is the most bent followed by the one on the far right. The crazy thing is that the 2 on the left were the unpunctured sausages, the 4th from the left had 3 punctures! Madness. The one on the far right had 2 holes in the middle.
From this I am concluding that I won't bother puncturing in the future and to show my conviction to this school of thought I didn't this morning. I also conclude that it is probably the grill pan and the sausages position and rotation half way through that has a bigger impact. That or the COOP sausages are generally bend proof.
Very good, now that's out of the way I hope to get back to something none sausage based in the distant future.
