Pasadena-based restaurant chain Dog Haus is on a mission to take sausage to places it’s never been before.
It’s called the Absolute Würst Sausage Series, and its goal is to introduce a monthly sausage based on a popular food.
According to chef Adam Gertler, the series began with a challenge from the chain’s co-founding partner Hagop Giragossian, “What if we just put everything into the sausage?”
That task falls to Gertler, the chain’s “Würstmacher” and a TV personality who hosted “FX Movie Download” and was a contestant on “Food Network Star.”
Gertler said in a phone interview that it is his goal to get all the flavors of popular dishes into a meat grinder.
The series launched on Feb. 1 with Nashville hot chicken sausage, which will be available through the end of the month or as long as supplies last in Dog Haus’ 52 restaurants.
Turning the popular chicken sandwich into a sausage posed a challenge to Gertler.
“We wanted to coat it like we would fried chicken. Getting breading for fried chicken onto sausage was a little tricky, because the sausage surface is so smooth,” he said.
“We came up with the idea of doing a sausage skinless, so we do a chicken sausage with no casing on it. And then we’re able to roll it in our breader, and then into a wet batter, and then back into the dry breader. And that allows the coating to really stick well. Then we could just treat it like we would treat Nashville hot chicken.”
Gertler has the rest of the year mapped out, but he’s still working out how to do most of them. For instance, he’s planning on an al pastor sausage for May, but said getting in pineapple could be interesting. And he’s hoping to do a mac and cheese sausage for June. He was able to create a mac and cheese sausage in his home kitchen, but making it in 300-pound batches could be challenging.
“We had to figure out how to make mac and cheese at the sausage factory, because they’re not set up to do that…
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