No store-bought sausage can replace homemade sausage from a smoker. We know the ingredients it’s made from – it doesn’t contain the chemicals added to store-bought ones. We usually make sausages from ground pork, veal, beef, lamb, chicken, or rabbit. Sausage casings are made from pork, lamb intestines, or synthetic materials. The sausage is dried before smoking, then cold or hot smoked depending on the type. For us, the best is from pork neck meat, hung on a rod, partially dried, known as “broken.”