LEM Products Smoked Mahogany Edible Collagen Casing (17mm)

This product is very good and reliable. I’ve used it several times and the size is just perfect. It does well with a sausage stuffer and does not fall apart.

Great product, very snappy, and great flavor for making venison sticks.

My 17mm casings were overall good. Majority of them were very good. I purchased 11 pkgs (22 sticks) of the 17mm, and some of the pkgs seemed to be older product, which is more brittle and they have more blowouts than fresher ones. I like these LEM 17mm casings, have used them for years, but fresh product works best. BUYER BEWARE: ISSUE WITH STUFFER TUBES AND COLLAGEN CASINGS: CAREFULLY check the OUTER diameter of your stuffer tube before buying collagen casings! Measure it EXACTLY. A dial caliper works great, but a quality finely gradated ruler can work too. To get the collagen casing 'stick' on the tube without unraveling it and putting it on inches at a time: For 16-17mm casings, you need a stuffer tube with an Outer Diameter (OD) of no more than 3/8". For 19mm casings, you need a stuffer tube with no more than a 7/16" OD. For 21mm casings, you need a a stuffer tube with no more than a 1/2" OD. STUFFER TUBE SIZE LABELING IS MISLEADING!! MOST people who haven't already learned this lesson the hard way, believe that when they buy/get a stuffer tube that says it is 3/8", that the stuffer tube has a 3/8" OD. This is FALSE! For some insane reason, stuffer tube makers (including LEM) label their tubes by INNER diameter! I still haven't figured out who in the WORLD cares what a stuffer tube ID is (seems like a scam to me). Secondly, if you CAN find a mfg who admits the labeled 'size' is ID, and also mentions their OD, you can't believe THAT either. For instance, a LEM stainless steel stuffer tube that claims to be 3/8" has an OD of 1/2", and an ID of 7/16". You need at least a 21mm collagen casing to fit the 'stick' on that 1/2" OD tube without unraveling it. You can get 16mm, 17mm, and 19mm collagen casings on a 1/2" OD stuffer tube, but you have to unravel the stick, and feed it onto the tube a couple inches at a time. A patient person can make this work if they are making 5-10# of stix, but it will drive you crazy if you are doing 40-50# (or more) of them.

Great product Durable and easy stuffing

Work good