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How to make sausages at home that hold together on the braai Shop the KK sausage making bundles Your hands are the reason your homemade sausages are falling apart. Fat starts to melt at 35 to 40°C, and your hands doing the mixing are often within that range. That is how a batch of boerewors […]

Why Steakhouse Dry-Aged Beef Tastes Better Than Your Butcher’s (And How to Fix It) Shop the KK Classic Ager 415L Shop the KK Classic Ager 125L It wasn’t always the case. Something changed around 50 years ago which changed the way ageing was done. It wasn’t done to make a better product. It was done

How to make burger patties that aren’t raw Shop the KK H130 Hamburger Patty Press See how a 130mm mould keeps every patty the same KK H130 Hamburger Patty Press 12 month warranty. $349.95. FREE NZ SHIPPING Shop the KK H130 Hamburger Patty Press Why burgers burn on the outside and are raw in the

Should modern sausages be reclassified as bread? Seriously when 50% of your ingredients are flour and starch based fillers the line has to be somewhere. Shop the KK SL08 Meat Grinder Shop Sausage Making KK SL08 Meat Grinder 12-month warranty on working parts. $595. FREE NZ SHIPPING Shop the KK SL08 Meat Grinder Something is

PREP & SLICING One Slicer, Endless Possibilities Everybody knows that quality ingredients matter — but what about the cut? Whether you are cutting steaks, preparing biltong smalls, jerky or slicing fruit for dehydration, consistent thickness makes an enormous difference. See the KK SL250 — $695 Shop Slicers & Shredders ONE MACHINE, EVERY JOB KK SL250

SLICING & SERVING A Sharp Knife Still Crushes Dried Biltong Before It Cuts Tired of your biltong crumbling the moment you cut it? A drawing blade fixes compression damage by separating dried fibres instead of crushing them. See the Heritage Slicer Shop Slicers & Shredders DRY IT RIGHT, SLICE IT RIGHT KK12 + Heritage Slicers

BILTONG TROUBLESHOOTING That Light Bulb in Your Biltong Box Is the Problem Getting jerky when you expected biltong? The fix is not the meat or the spice. It is the temperature inside your box. See the KK12 Biltong Boss Shop Biltong Cabinets WITH EVERY KK12 KK12 Biltong Boss $495 Free shipping across New Zealand, and

CLEANING & MAINTENANCE GUIDE How to Clean and Maintain Your Sausage Making Equipment Two jobs at once: keep your family safe, and keep good gear working for decades. Neither is hard, both come down to a single habit. Here’s the full routine, straight from makers who clean up after every batch of boerewors. Shop Sausage

SPICE GUIDE · FIND YOUR FLAVOUR Biltong Spices: Which Flavour Is Right for You? Coriander, salt and pepper form the backbone of almost every blend — but the small differences between mixes are what separate a clean, mild snack from a bold, braai-style bite. Here are the six Kalahari Khabu flavours, and exactly who each

I finally get to enjoy boerewors again
There’s something about a proper braai that you can’t explain. Unless you’ve stood there, turning a coil slowly over the fire while talking nonsense with your mates, you don’t quite get it. Boerewors isn’t just sausage.
It’s ritual.