You guys did a great job, but the sausages need to be a little more on the "charred" side for the authentic Bunnings taste! A little greasier, especially for the onions too. 🤗😎 The bread should stick to the roof of your mouth too ... 😂😂😂
@@mattycap6379 I'm in Victoria ... our local does them on the "Aussie BBQ Side", a little charred on the outside, but not too much ... just enough for that charcoal flavour to come through and stick to your teeth ... they've never cut them in half tho ... 😀
It actually isn't the Bunnings sausage sizzle, it is a sausage sizzle that happens at Bunnings. The sausage sizzle was iconic long before Bunnings allowed charity groups to run sausage sizzles as fund raisers. So now people link Bunnings and Sausage sizzles together like a natural thing, but to be pedantic, it is just a sausage sizzle that happen at almost every BBQ around the country constantly.
Yes, I was going to point a similar thing. The bbq is run by a local amateur sporting group or organization such as scouts, football teams or Little Athletics and conducted in the Bunnings car parks, as a public service and good PR. There are hundreds of Bunnings stores so it's one of the few nationwide traditions. And yum.
The Bunnings sausage sizzle is a fund raiser. Bunnings purchase the meat and bread and the sales goes to the community group who is running the bbq. Huge money spinner.
I'm pretty my local baseball club had to purchase bread, snags, onions and condiments and bunnings only gave you the gas, BBQ and tables and if you had you're own awning thing pop that up and away you go and keep all the profits. Bunnings just gave an estimate on amount required from history of previous sausage sizzle days.
The cheap thin beef sausages from coles are the best!!!! Traditionally it’s a thin sausage so you can wrap it diagonally with the bread holding it at the top. aussie bread is generally not sweet tasting like America’s white bread. when we were in the US we struggled to find white bread, wholemeal or wholegrain bread without lots of sugar in it or a sweet taste. Sourdough was the only bread we found in the bread aisle that actually tasted similar to bread we have in australia. We buy dough four as well but it’s a heavier bread that is I guess more fancy for restaurants to use or you use for bruschetta and avo on toast. General white bread or whole meal etc is sandwhich bread used for toast and vegemite or lunch for adults and kids. We don’t call buns or rolls sandwhiches like subway. That’s a roll.
When you come back, take a trip to Bunnings and support a local charity via those sausage sizzles, oh and which way do you have your onions, on top of the snag or the snag on top of your onions? Like mine on top!! And thank you for promoting our nation, it really is the greatest on this planet!!
Well done to you both. Yes as mentioned the Bunnings sausage sizzles are to raise funds for local community groups like schools, scouts, footy teams etc. So people buy to give to a degree, but also because, I mean, the smell of a sausage and onion on a barbie, I mean, almost impossible to resist!
Fun fact - When state and federal elections are held a sausage sizzle is held by schools and community groups to raise money. The term democracy sausage has been given sausages in bread on Election day.
Bunnings is a Western Australian store so thought I’d mention that over here we use the hotdog rolls. Using slices of bread is an Eastern States thing particularly when it comes to the sausage sizzle at Bunnings. The other things I was going to tell you have been covered in other comments, ie charity fundraiser for local community groups etc. Great video guys, got a craving for some now, definitely going to Bunnings this weekend...
There's a new spot of info I'll tuck away somewhere. I did think it 'might' be foreign owned when pushing out Mitre 10 and others. Rolls are so much more expensive than a piece of bread though, but thanks WA, brilliant idea and fund raising efforts that Bunnings has let happen for many groups.
True. I actually find it annoying that a sausage sizzle is almost becoming branded as Bunnings. It's an iconic thing that Aussies have been doing at BBQs. soccer matches, picnics, etc for years. Also, the best way to do them is to cut the sausages in half lengthways and then open it up. that way you put it between two pieces of bread and have it a bit like a sandwich.
If you slice it to lay between two bits of bread, that's a sausage sandwich. The classic diagonal across a single slice is the sausage sizzle of old at school fetes when I was growing up. It's easier to hold in one hand like that.
When I get a craving, I cook up 6 sausages and some onion and chuck the leftovers in the fridge. Then whenever I get a craving, I chuck a sausage and a bit of onion in the microwave and throw it on some bread with sauce. The purists might complain at nuking a sausage sizzle, but being able to just randomly chuck a sausage on some bread in 2-3 minutes makes me happy, especially mid early am ghaming session.
I remember doing a sausage sizzle back in the 1970s on a country roadside where cars had to stop to wait for the ferry across the Hawkesbury River. It may have been only a country road, but that wait for the ferry meant that my Scout troop were run off their feet selling snag sangers at the windows of the cars. It must have been funny seeing a whole lot of scouts running back and forth between cars and our roadside barbecue. We raised a lot of money that day for the Scouts. And boy, did those sausage sandwiches taste good. I was the sausage turner.
As many have said, The sausage sizzle is AT Bunnings, not BY Bunnings. They are usually a fundraising event for, eg, the local bush fire brigade, surf lifesaving club, local Mens Shed (there's a whole 'nother topic to explore). Usually it happens at the entrance to a Bunnings store, under a marquee, and is obvious as you go in the door. You can usually get a goffa - a 'soft drink' (soda) if you want as well, or a bottled water.
Well done, guys! They looked bang on. 👍🏼 The secret is to definitely have really fresh white bread so as it sticks to the roof of your mouth. 😆 Bunnings lets community groups, local sporting clubs or not-for-profit organisations run their “sausage sizzles” every weekend and the money raised goes to help that group. It has become a real Aussie institution! Sausage sizzles are also prevalent at most polling places when we have state and federal elections in Australia. On Election Day, it’s known as a “democracy sausage.”
American jelly is more like what we refer to as conserve. Conserve is like jam but it's much smoother and doesn't have any seeds in it. I ordered the goober peanut butter and jelly from an importer here in Australia and while it's a really weird taste there is something addictive about it.
Technically, in Australia we use jam as the generic term to cover three different kinds of cooked fruit and sugar preparations. Conserves are supposed to contain whole fruit, jam contains fruit pieces, and jelly is a strained, usually clear version without the fruit pulp (I've mostly seen it used for apple). But if you just say jelly, it's usually the fruit juice and gelatine preparation you call Jell-o in the US. And we don't have a lot of grape jam in Australia; our grapes usually end up in bottles or as sultanas if not eaten fresh 😉
Aussies love a sausage sizzle and frequently use them as a quick fun raiser, so it’s not unusual to see a sausage sizzle on the street or a park near a shopping centre, especially on a Saturday when Dads are often out and about with family. Another place you’ll see sausage sizzles is at kids’ sports on the weekends. Our white bead often has hidden fibre so it’s got a better texture. FYI, we also have Lowes’ but they sell clothing for men and boys, not hardware.
I used to do the Bunnings sausage sizzle for a local charity on a regular basis. I had a formula worked out; how many loaves of bread per kilo of sausages and how many kilos of onions. I cooked 100kg of snags one day and could have sold more if I had em. We had tomato sauce, BBQ sauce, chilli sauce and mustard. Any combination of sauce is good I reckon.
Hi, way back when I was a teen in the late 70's early 80's...I had heard of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches from US tv shows and devised my own version. My creation was basically the same as yours except that I included a slice of bread in the middle therefore the bottom was a peanut butter sandwich with butter and jam on top with another slice of bread on top of that so that they didn't mix. Luv your videos. Thanks.
@@twotravelingkings - Also, if you enjoyed the Sausage sizzle, than you have to have dessert. Pieces of white bread, with butter and Hundreds and Thousands. It's called Fairy Bread. queen.com.au/product/hundreds-thousands/
I was one of the 88 original team members of the first ever Bunnings warehouse in Sunshine, Victoria in 1994. I was the one who suggested that the aroma of a freshly cooked Aussie snag on entry would be a great idea for our customers to have added value to their shopping experience. At that time it was for our own social club, but soon enough it became a way of involving local community groups, which was a stroke of genius.
Hey guys !! Always good to hear from you. Your accent is getting better Logan. How could you miss out on trying a Bunnings sausage ??? The next step up from the Bunnings sausage is a democracy sausage. Fun Fact is that ‘Jelly’ is made from fruit juice and ‘Jam’ is made from fruit pulp.
Yes! The democracy sausage. This is because at elections many of the polling places are in schools so they schools hold a sausage sizzle to raise money while they have so many people there. Hence the democracy sausage.
There is an Aussie-run cafe in Washington DC that does a "democracy sausage" sizzle in election day in November. (You'll have to Goggle it but it made the news over there.)
Well done guys! The onions are probably just a little bit too cooked, it’s normally with brown onions and more translucent then caramelised, but having not had one before you did great! Great job! 👍🏼
Looks good! I'm hungry now. I'd use a brown onion next time and beef sausage. Another popular sandwich is the steak sandwich, with the lot of course!. Can you find sizzle steak or minute steak in the US? It's thinly sliced steak that only takes a couple minutes to cook. Steak sandwich with the lot: toasted white bread, steak, bacon, caramelised onion, tomato sauce, cheese, fried egg, tinned beetroot, tomato and lettuce
In Australia, you can buy a few kinds of jam. Actual jam is blended fruit, whereas jam that contains larger pieces or whole fruits is called conserve (with the emphasis on the first syllable). Jam that has been strained so it’s a clear juice jam with no fruit, is called jelly and each of these is used on bread etc.
I don't know what sort of snags u have in the US. In Australia you can get all sorts, including shorter fatter ones like this, but the most common ones I might expect at a family barbie or a saussage sizzle would be longer and thinner (thus stick off the end of the bread). I've never seen anyone fry snags and onions with a lid. I imagine that it would keep the moisture in and therefore make everything a bit softer, rather than getting the nice crispy bits of onion and saussage? Cool that you're giving it a go and embracing your time in Oz. 👍
Oh no, epic fail, you didn't get the health and safety memo, the onions go on first. This is to prevent them falling out when eating the snag and causing a "slip hazard". Caused a real stink, everyone knows the onions go on top.
The sausage sandwiches are for charity. These organisations book their turn to hire the tent etc. The proceeds go to that organisation. Very popular with Ozzies.
You nailed it. A snag sanga is all about personal taste. If you liked it you got it right. I like to 'butteryfly' the thick sausages (cook them for a while then cut them length wise and cook them meat side down for a while). Then two slices of bread, make a sandwich (Sanga lol), lots of onion and BBQ sauce !
I'm a Brit living in New Zealand, where the same sausage sizzle is common. You are not missing out on the precooked sausages that are commonly used at these events. The nice aspect of the sausage sizzle is that they are raising money for good causes in the community.
You totally nailed it!!! As others have mentioned, the sausage sizzle is a fundraising event for not-for-profit community groups- as the co-ordinator of a lifestyle program in an aged care facility, I have hosted many Bunnings events....takes me about a year to get over it, as the aroma of the snags and onions sure does permeate into your inner soul....but the upside is, we would always raise $1800-$2000 at each BBQ and were able to use that cash to fund outings and equipment for my Hostel of 60 residents with the average age of 92.... so I say bravo to Bunnings and bravo to you guys, love love 💕 your vids
I think you nailed the sausage sizzle ! FYI: During State and Federal elections where voting is compulsory here, polling booths will have a sausage sizzle with beverage of choice (coffee,tea or soda) for the queuing voters on behalf of local community groups. It makes the queuing bearable!
My understanding is that if the puree of fruit is strained so all seeds and peel is removed and then it is thickened it is a spreadable jelly... if the seeds and/or peel is left in it is jam.
As a kid growing up in Australia, and jelly here, as in "Aeroplane Jelly" (look it up) - jello there... I couldn't figure why on earth would you put that on a sandwich. So when I first went to the USA I had to ask someone. But then going to a buffet place you actually have jlly (jello) not for sweets (dessert) but part of the main meal. Yes you guys are weird!
I used to help with sausage sizzles for my Karate club, because we started in the morning, we used to also sell egg and bacon muffins, along side the snags. Except, to make it neater and easier to assemble (and eat), we used to crack the eggs into egg rings on the bbq, then sprinkle bacon pieces into the egg. easier to flip whilst cooking and things don't fall apart whilst people are trying to eat. You could also add onion to them if you wanted.
It's so cute that you said tomato like we do in the spirit of eating an Aussie sausage sizzle. (I'm watching all your videos right now because I'm in hospital, so that's why I'm writing so many comments today) Edit: as a kid at school in the 90s/2000s, they'd run a sausage sizzle annually where we'd pay $2 at lunch time. Since they bought in bulk, it was a great way to raise money for the school. So raising money with sausage sizzles has been a big part of Aussie culture for many decades :)
I’m Australian and had Peanut Butter and Jam sandwich today for lunch. Love it, however I’ve always just used strawberry jam, I didn’t know grape jam (jelly) was a thing.
You need to work on the "Truckie's Breakfast" Buttered Weet Bix with strawberry jam washed down with a cuppa tea. Breakfast of champions. Far better than Devonshire Teas,
@@flamingfrancis YES my dad's a trucky and he always has that kinda stuff, except he drinks esspresso's to keep awake since he used to drive dump trucks at the mines.
New subscriber. Your coffee comparison vlog was recommended by YT and I’m glad I watched it and end up binge watching majority of your vlogs when you were still in Australia up to the most recent ones. Really enjoyed it. Hope both of you and those dear to you are doing okay with the current lockdown where you’re at. Stay safe.
Beef snags only, brown the onions, onions on the bread then the snag, I have BBQ sauce and mustard on mine. US jelly is runnier than our jam. Bunnings snags are fund raisers for community groups, who supply, cook their own ingredients. Bunnings only supply the BBQ. The Bunnings snag has been in hiatus for 6 months due to C-19, but its back. Woohoo.
To elaborate on the Sausage Sizzles at Bunnings, majority of the sales would be for whomever is running it. Sometimes it can be a charity like Salvation Army or even for a local Rotary club. It varies depending on what they're donating for and each store would have different people there. Pretty much all of them are volunteers and I know some people that have done it for the scouts etc.
Well done guys! However, traditionally, the sausage would normally be of a BEEF style. Having said that, most Aussie’s will BBQ all different styles of sausages with varying contents; beef, chicken, lamb, pork; and with different levels of herbs and spices. So much flavour to choose from in Australia. When/if you get back here, look us up in Cronulla, Sydney and I’ll help educate you and show you the better side of SYDNEY!!! Message me here when you do!
Yes! I have, but only because I grew up in America and had them as an 8 year old. Since then? No way! I have more respect for my body than that. But I must say, it was pretty good, especially with crunchy PB. Btw, Bunnings doesn't actually serve the sausages, it merely provides the facilities for use by deserving community organisations like volunteer firefighters and kindergartens, who provide the workers and food, and benefit from the money earned. Betcha didn't know that! Btw2: Loved the way Jenny shot a glance at Logan at the start when he pulled a very respectable "g'day", and highly impressed with the "to-mah-to sauce" that you both offered up without any visible effort! Love you guys!
I'm a fair bloody dinkum Aussie carpenter, I used to take peanut butter and jam sandwiches in my work lunch box. Tomato sauce is also called "dead horse" in Australia, we have our Dog's eye with Dead Horse, which means a meat pie with tomato sauce.
Usually sausage sizzles done outside bunnings are done by local communities doing some fund raising for a particular cause, for example a local school, often set up temporarily in the car park, so usually its a temporary setup. you may get it with ordinary plain simple sausages, but often you may get a higher quality sausage such an Kransky, or Chirrozo and there are numerous others (these are usually traditional European Sausages many are German such as Bratwurst.
You guys are simply the best and as far as this Aussie is concerned you are already Australians, welcome back anytime. The sanga sandwich looked sweet as. Stay Safe
Saturday mornings in Aus smell like a sausage sandwich . You guys nailed it . Snags might have been a bit thick , but I think I'd go with your size if given the choice . .
You did pretty well considering you can't get the same sausages we use in Australia for sausage sizzles. If you try it again I'd suggest try using sandwich slices instead of toast slices, unless you really like bread more than the sausage
At my local Bunnings, they have American mustard alongside the tomato sauce, so you can add some of that as well. You can add a can soft drink with your sausage sizzle as well.
I'm an Australian (that has been to the states), if I understand correctly US jelly is basically the fruit conservative (jam) without any fruit - so just the "jelly". I feel about peanut butter & jelly sandwiches the way most Americans feel about vegemite... I didn't realized that a sausage in a piece of bread with onions and sauce was such a Aussie thing.
My usual Bunnings "one with" (for sausage with onions...) also includes American Mustard. Who knew? Go figure! Stretch goal for you: I'm looking forward to hearing more "no worries" and "yeah nah". Because you're Ozzies now.
this is great and well done guys. I love that you had a go and I cook this all the time at home so easy peasy. Such a quick easy snack / meal. Love this video. Made me smile and g'day from Melbourne Australia. Your sausages were a tad "fattter" that ours but any one will really do glad you loved it.
I love how a hardware store has become such an icon on social media here. Was so sad when they closed the sausage sizzle during peak covid, its not a bunnings trip without smelling BBQ when you get out of your car. This video was heaps funny and you did a great job on your sausage sanga!
Great sausage sizzle! At Bunnings they put the onion under the sausage, so it is less likely to fall on the ground and become a slipping hazard, although it traditionally goes on top. You can also mix it up a bit with different sauces and toppings, but the classic is exactly as you did it. I like to add cheese and some mustard (along with the tomato sauce).
The sausage sizzle as you call it is a means of different groups raising funds. So every time you go it will be a different group, ie scouts, football club, netball club, etc raising funds for their group.
You both are welcome anytime here in Australia. Happy you loved our country and the time you were here. If you come to Brisbane, I have a room for you both. Stay safe.
Hi guys. As always another great video. Starting to become more like aussies in each video. Wont be long and you will be filling out the citizenship papers. Your second family awaits your return. Stay safe
Bunnings sausage sizzle is all about that wafting aroma of BBQ'd beef snags and onion. Often you'll be there of a weekend just to grab some screws or potting soil and there they are at the front entrance sizzling away. It's very tempting for sure.
I had no idea that between our two great nations we have so many different ‘little’ cultural differences, ie your availability, or lack of availability for the basic thin, beef sausage 😯
@@twotravelingkings I love a sausage sizzle - always have lots of onions, tomato sauce down one side of sausage and lots of mustard down the other - tastes great
As a Bunnings employee of five years, hi from Australia! I'm usually out the back unloading the trucks, invoicing and sorting goods by their departments. We have a former Californian working with us, George. He's a pretty cool dude😃👍
Sausage sizzle doesn't have Butter! Sausage sizzle has been around long before Bunnings! It was used as a marketing strategy to get people to their stores when they first started opening up around Australia (early 1990's). Classically a loaf of white bread has 20 - 22 slices if you use the crusts and a kilo of thin beef sausages (roughly 14-16 sauasages) raises a reasonable amount of money depending on participation, Sausage sizzles have always used as a fund raiser by sporting clubs, social clubs, Scouts , etc,
A few years ago I volunteered to work a Bunnings BBQ on behalf of my kids Scout and Girl Guide groups. You provide the bread, sausage, onions etc and Bunnings provide the BBQ and gas. Its actually a great day out on the working side with the other parents. We had the kids selling raffle tickets. Groups compete for BBQ days. Great fundraiser. Off course there is election days but they don't come around as often.
It isn't reallly correct to state that orgainsations "compete" for allocations. Bunnings staff actually keep records and make sure the allocations are done fairly and equitably amongst the organiations that apply.
Dont know about the East Coast, but here in Perth WA we use bread hot dog rolls. So basically a hot dog made with a BBQ sausage, we even offer sauce, mustard ,or both... Thay are not made inside the Bunnings stores, but out side in a small markee at the entrances.
Great effort at the sausage sizzle. the origin of a sausage sizzle at Bunnings is as a community money raiser. Sausage sizzles are really common at local footy matches, school fairs etc, so Bunnings offered to let schools and community clubs sell sausages at their stores as lots of people go there to get stuff on a Saturday. The other thing i wanted ti explain is about jelly.. The word jelly, comes from the word, gelatine, which is usrd to set liquids into a jelly consistency whereas jams use the whole fruit and a natural fruit substance cslled pectin causes tbe jam to thicken. There are sometimes jelly type 'jams' which usually have all the flesh removed. I'd love to know if you read this and find it interesting. Im enjoying your videos.
Mates; good onya for giving it a go! Snag sangas are a staple Aussie food, dished up at every bbq in 'Straya since forever. Bunnings didn't invent them, but I'm sure others have told you this. Just a tip... you're supposed to stab your snags a few times before cooking (It lets the hot fat out). You guys are such good ambassadors for your country; cheerful, positive and self-effacing. No wonder you fitted in here so well...It's almost like you were born to live in Oztraya! You even pronounced "tomato" correctly...kudos! peace - out
I was raised on Peanut Butter & Honey sandwiches. But you should butter both slices, then peanut butter both slices and honey only one slice. Why? The butter and peanut butter will stop the bread soaking up the honey during the day until eaten (a big consideration when made for school lunch in the mornings). You can substitute any jam. I sometimes have apricot jam with my peanut butter. And yes... I get the giant jars or Skippy peanut butter (smooth) from Costco here.
Dam guys I'm off to bunnings for a snag omg so so hungry now. Us Aussie have some great food. So so so glad to see someome showed you how to eat Vegemite. It and snags are a staple food in most Aussie house holds
Yeah before Bunnings had this the Scouts use to setup a BBQ at the front of Bunnings. I don't know when but yeah at some point they decided to setup their own & told the Scouts to go else where. I still remember pilling so many bags of onions & chopping them up on the Friday night before a whole weekend of cooking at Bunnings.
We had Friday night sausage sizzles at my son’s junior cricket games for years! It’s an institution in Aussie life, regardless of the event. Hard to beat for a quick fix🤤
I found out was very difficult in the US to find bread without sugar, which (thankfully) just doesn't happen with regular bread in Australia. So the taste of the bread is also a significant difference.
In American terms, the onions typically get cut in quarter inch slices. So not too thin, or thick. Beef sausages are normally used. Also, I can't remember ever seeing grape jam here. Berry type jams, Apricot and plum are the thing here.
ok from an Australian who loves both the Bunnings store and a good sausage sizzle, to clear up the Bunnings sausage sizzle puzzle,"why does a home improvement store sell sausages in bread?" well technically Bunnings doesn't actually sell/provide the sausages its a community service they provide to local community groups,sports clubs etc to raise money to help buy the sporting equipment or what ever else they need. Any club community group car bike local dance groups etc, you get the picture,can apply to hold a fund raising sausage sizzle and so popular the waiting list to hold one is long. Paul from Australia ps love watching the comparisons from you yanks between our countries and language
The last comment is almost correct. The sausage sizzle is for charity groups to raise funds but Bunnings supplies the custom made BBQ. Every Bunnings that does the BBQ has the same unit. The drinks, sausages. source and bread are the same or should be wherever you go in Aus. Oh. And after the great onion incident (look it up) the onion has to be on the bottom. Cheers.
One thing to make it a genuine sausage sizzle is that the sausage and onions should be done on a BBQ or is it the out door grill over there that gives it a better flavor
Close, but Aussies usually put BBQ sauce instead of tomato sauce. And we do love our butter, so we'd put butter or margarine on the bread. Sausage sizzles have also been a part of community in Australia for more than 50 years (and I'm only saying that because there's a photo of me at 1 with a snag in bread in my hand and I'm over 50). School fetes (fairs), elections, charity fundraisers, end of year soccer games, it's one of those things we do as a community that no one would know where it started, but everyone has manned a barbie at one point or another. It's also a thing for kids at barbies where the adults had steaks or seafood, the kids always got sausages and the bread is a great way to eat and hold something hot.
The Bunnings Sausage Sizzle is only on Saturdays and Sundays. A charity or community group gets to operate the Sausage Sizzle and the proceeds are for that charity or community group. The next week, it will be a different charity that are running the sausage sizzle. Etc Each location hosts a different charity or community group.
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What do you think, did we do alright? Might have to make the Bunnings Sausage sizzle again! Tasted great :)
You guys did a great job, but the sausages need to be a little more on the "charred" side for the authentic Bunnings taste! A little greasier, especially for the onions too. 🤗😎 The bread should stick to the roof of your mouth too ... 😂😂😂
@@deanmeixner not sure where you live mate, but the Bunnings near me usually cuts the sausages in half as well 🤙🏼
Well not all they way through haha just so you can flatten them out
@@mattycap6379 I'm in Victoria ... our local does them on the "Aussie BBQ Side", a little charred on the outside, but not too much ... just enough for that charcoal flavour to come through and stick to your teeth ... they've never cut them in half tho ... 😀
@@mattycap6379 Not here.
It actually isn't the Bunnings sausage sizzle, it is a sausage sizzle that happens at Bunnings. The sausage sizzle was iconic long before Bunnings allowed charity groups to run sausage sizzles as fund raisers. So now people link Bunnings and Sausage sizzles together like a natural thing, but to be pedantic, it is just a sausage sizzle that happen at almost every BBQ around the country constantly.
Interesting!
ha ha ha when I saw the title Bunnings sausage sizzle, I paused for a while thinking "When is Bunnings started selling meat products?"
Exactly. Bunnings support local groups and schools.
You will also find the sausage sizzles at election polling booths. 🇦🇺
Yes, I was going to point a similar thing. The bbq is run by a local amateur sporting group or organization such as scouts, football teams or Little Athletics and conducted in the Bunnings car parks, as a public service and good PR. There are hundreds of Bunnings stores so it's one of the few nationwide traditions. And yum.
The Bunnings sausage sizzle is a fund raiser. Bunnings purchase the meat and bread and the sales goes to the community group who is running the bbq. Huge money spinner.
You won’t smell 2x4 if onions are on the grill 😉
I'm pretty my local baseball club had to purchase bread, snags, onions and condiments and bunnings only gave you the gas, BBQ and tables and if you had you're own awning thing pop that up and away you go and keep all the profits. Bunnings just gave an estimate on amount required from history of previous sausage sizzle days.
Good to know!
bluedogs right. you pay for the edibles, bunnings supply everything else
@@bluedog1052 maybe I was lucky from our Bunnings in lismore nsw.
I see you two as honorary Australians seeing as you love Australia so much. Keep up the great videos 👍🏻
Sounds good to us 😊
I second that!
I'm from Ballarat and they'd be very welcome in these parts - these two are defo Aussies
I also agree.
aussies like this are the reason the country has no jobs because of the amout of foreigners that are here
A new Bunnings opened in my town and my scout group cooked snags for twelve hours on opening day. We cooked 80 kilograms of snags!
😳 oh goodness
Great stuff mate, hope you ate a few too
The cheap thin beef sausages from coles are the best!!!! Traditionally it’s a thin sausage so you can wrap it diagonally with the bread holding it at the top. aussie bread is generally not sweet tasting like America’s white bread. when we were in the US we struggled to find white bread, wholemeal or wholegrain bread without lots of sugar in it or a sweet taste. Sourdough was the only bread we found in the bread aisle that actually tasted similar to bread we have in australia. We buy dough four as well but it’s a heavier bread that is I guess more fancy for restaurants to use or you use for bruschetta and avo on toast. General white bread or whole meal etc is sandwhich bread used for toast and vegemite or lunch for adults and kids. We don’t call buns or rolls sandwhiches like subway. That’s a roll.
Thanks for watching 😊
Agreed Lyn. Gd wrap up 👍🏻
Bunnings use beef sausages, it looked like you guys used chicken (which is ok). 😊
@@Lovelifealways16 chicken, hell no
When you come back, take a trip to Bunnings and support a local charity via those sausage sizzles, oh and which way do you have your onions, on top of the snag or the snag on top of your onions? Like mine on top!! And thank you for promoting our nation, it really is the greatest on this planet!!
Sounds good to us 😊
onions are only allowed on bottom now - but like you - on the top with sauce was the way
Well done to you both. Yes as mentioned the Bunnings sausage sizzles are to raise funds for local community groups like schools, scouts, footy teams etc. So people buy to give to a degree, but also because, I mean, the smell of a sausage and onion on a barbie, I mean, almost impossible to resist!
Very cool! Thanks for watching 😊
Fun fact - When state and federal elections are held a sausage sizzle is held by schools and community groups to raise money. The term democracy sausage has been given sausages in bread on Election day.
Good to know! 😊
I prefer the cakes
Never heard of that
Being called a democracy sausage
The only thing better than a Bunnings sausage sizzle sausage, is a democracy sausage.
Bunnings is a Western Australian store so thought I’d mention that over here we use the hotdog rolls. Using slices of bread is an Eastern States thing particularly when it comes to the sausage sizzle at Bunnings. The other things I was going to tell you have been covered in other comments, ie charity fundraiser for local community groups etc. Great video guys, got a craving for some now, definitely going to Bunnings this weekend...
Haha thanks for watching! 😊
There's a new spot of info I'll tuck away somewhere. I did think it 'might' be foreign owned when pushing out Mitre 10 and others.
Rolls are so much more expensive than a piece of bread though, but thanks WA, brilliant idea and fund raising efforts that Bunnings has let happen for many groups.
The sausage sizzle is very common to Australia and can be found in lots of places but it's becoming so common at Bunnings it's becoming Iconic
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Yep. This is what I wanted to say. The sausage sizzle predates Bunnings by a long time. Every school or sporting event has them.
True. I actually find it annoying that a sausage sizzle is almost becoming branded as Bunnings. It's an iconic thing that Aussies have been doing at BBQs. soccer matches, picnics, etc for years. Also, the best way to do them is to cut the sausages in half lengthways and then open it up. that way you put it between two pieces of bread and have it a bit like a sandwich.
Cassanth I was with you right up to the bit where you cut it in half. Sacrilege!
If you slice it to lay between two bits of bread, that's a sausage sandwich. The classic diagonal across a single slice is the sausage sizzle of old at school fetes when I was growing up. It's easier to hold in one hand like that.
Well done guys. Now I’m craving a Bunnings snag at 4 o’clock in the morning. 😉
😊 haha
When I get a craving, I cook up 6 sausages and some onion and chuck the leftovers in the fridge.
Then whenever I get a craving, I chuck a sausage and a bit of onion in the microwave and throw it on some bread with sauce.
The purists might complain at nuking a sausage sizzle, but being able to just randomly chuck a sausage on some bread in 2-3 minutes makes me happy, especially mid early am ghaming session.
@@bonolio I like that attitude, keep at it!!!!
I remember doing a sausage sizzle back in the 1970s on a country roadside where cars had to stop to wait for the ferry across the Hawkesbury River. It may have been only a country road, but that wait for the ferry meant that my Scout troop were run off their feet selling snag sangers at the windows of the cars. It must have been funny seeing a whole lot of scouts running back and forth between cars and our roadside barbecue. We raised a lot of money that day for the Scouts. And boy, did those sausage sandwiches taste good. I was the sausage turner.
Lol cool!
As many have said, The sausage sizzle is AT Bunnings, not BY Bunnings. They are usually a fundraising event for, eg, the local bush fire brigade, surf lifesaving club, local Mens Shed (there's a whole 'nother topic to explore). Usually it happens at the entrance to a Bunnings store, under a marquee, and is obvious as you go in the door. You can usually get a goffa - a 'soft drink' (soda) if you want as well, or a bottled water.
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Well done, guys! They looked bang on. 👍🏼 The secret is to definitely have really fresh white bread so as it sticks to the roof of your mouth. 😆 Bunnings lets community groups, local sporting clubs or not-for-profit organisations run their “sausage sizzles” every weekend and the money raised goes to help that group. It has become a real Aussie institution! Sausage sizzles are also prevalent at most polling places when we have state and federal elections in Australia. On Election Day, it’s known as a “democracy sausage.”
Glad we did alright 😊
Spot on about the bread! 😂😂😂
Election day sausage sizzle that should be adopted in the US to help everyone chill
American jelly is more like what we refer to as conserve. Conserve is like jam but it's much smoother and doesn't have any seeds in it. I ordered the goober peanut butter and jelly from an importer here in Australia and while it's a really weird taste there is something addictive about it.
Haha it's not bad!
Technically, in Australia we use jam as the generic term to cover three different kinds of cooked fruit and sugar preparations. Conserves are supposed to contain whole fruit, jam contains fruit pieces, and jelly is a strained, usually clear version without the fruit pulp (I've mostly seen it used for apple). But if you just say jelly, it's usually the fruit juice and gelatine preparation you call Jell-o in the US. And we don't have a lot of grape jam in Australia; our grapes usually end up in bottles or as sultanas if not eaten fresh 😉
Aussies love a sausage sizzle and frequently use them as a quick fun raiser, so it’s not unusual to see a sausage sizzle on the street or a park near a shopping centre, especially on a Saturday when Dads are often out and about with family. Another place you’ll see sausage sizzles is at kids’ sports on the weekends. Our white bead often has hidden fibre so it’s got a better texture.
FYI, we also have Lowes’ but they sell clothing for men and boys, not hardware.
Very true! Never got to try one in Oz, but did our best to recreate it :)
I used to do the Bunnings sausage sizzle for a local charity on a regular basis. I had a formula worked out; how many loaves of bread per kilo of sausages and how many kilos of onions. I cooked 100kg of snags one day and could have sold more if I had em. We had tomato sauce, BBQ sauce, chilli sauce and mustard. Any combination of sauce is good I reckon.
Nice haha
Good onya, Frank.
I have fallen in love with the bbq sauce and American mustard mix on snags.
Hi, way back when I was a teen in the late 70's early 80's...I had heard of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches from US tv shows and devised my own version. My creation was basically the same as yours except that I included a slice of bread in the middle therefore the bottom was a peanut butter sandwich with butter and jam on top with another slice of bread on top of that so that they didn't mix. Luv your videos. Thanks.
Sounds good! Thanks for the support 😊
Im an Aussie from north Queensland, all I can say is Bunnings snags are a work of art
Tasty 😊
You two make me love my country even more I’m proud to call you both genuine Aussies!
😊 cheers
So when american's get their fingers caught in a door, they say "I jellowed my fingers in the door"
Depends on what state you're in.. 😊
@@twotravelingkings - Also, if you enjoyed the Sausage sizzle, than you have to have dessert.
Pieces of white bread, with butter and Hundreds and Thousands.
It's called Fairy Bread.
queen.com.au/product/hundreds-thousands/
@@JJSPARROW1978 check out our video! th-cam.com/video/OvatFaLx5Hk/w-d-xo.html we accidentally toasted it the first time we tried it.. haha
Not much for you to do now, but open up a Meat Pie Shop in America.
No because jello is jelly, jammed or jam is jelly, so they jellied their finger in the door.
I was one of the 88 original team members of the first ever Bunnings warehouse in Sunshine, Victoria in 1994. I was the one who suggested that the aroma of a freshly cooked Aussie snag on entry would be a great idea for our customers to have added value to their shopping experience. At that time it was for our own social club, but soon enough it became a way of involving local community groups, which was a stroke of genius.
Hey guys !! Always good to hear from you. Your accent is getting better Logan. How could you miss out on trying a Bunnings sausage ??? The next step up from the Bunnings sausage is a democracy sausage. Fun Fact is that ‘Jelly’ is made from fruit juice and ‘Jam’ is made from fruit pulp.
Thanks 😊 been working on the accent! Haha
Yes! The democracy sausage. This is because at elections many of the polling places are in schools so they schools hold a sausage sizzle to raise money while they have so many people there. Hence the democracy sausage.
There is an Aussie-run cafe in Washington DC that does a "democracy sausage" sizzle in election day in November. (You'll have to Goggle it but it made the news over there.)
Well done guys! The onions are probably just a little bit too cooked, it’s normally with brown onions and more translucent then caramelised, but having not had one before you did great! Great job! 👍🏼
True, was good!
I disagree. Your onions looked PERFECT to me!
Looks good! I'm hungry now. I'd use a brown onion next time and beef sausage.
Another popular sandwich is the steak sandwich, with the lot of course!. Can you find sizzle steak or minute steak in the US? It's thinly sliced steak that only takes a couple minutes to cook.
Steak sandwich with the lot: toasted white bread, steak, bacon, caramelised onion, tomato sauce, cheese, fried egg, tinned beetroot, tomato and lettuce
Yeah we have the cheese steak usually cooked with that thin type of steak. With onions of course 😊
You forgot the pineapple!
forgot the beetroot
In Australia, you can buy a few kinds of jam. Actual jam is blended fruit, whereas jam that contains larger pieces or whole fruits is called conserve (with the emphasis on the first syllable). Jam that has been strained so it’s a clear juice jam with no fruit, is called jelly and each of these is used on bread etc.
Good to know :)
I reckon, you both did an amazing job, re-creating the Bunnings Sausage sizzle!! Great job, Cheers
Cheers 😊
I don't know what sort of snags u have in the US. In Australia you can get all sorts, including shorter fatter ones like this, but the most common ones I might expect at a family barbie or a saussage sizzle would be longer and thinner (thus stick off the end of the bread). I've never seen anyone fry snags and onions with a lid. I imagine that it would keep the moisture in and therefore make everything a bit softer, rather than getting the nice crispy bits of onion and saussage? Cool that you're giving it a go and embracing your time in Oz. 👍
😊 yeah can't find an Aussie style sausage over here!
@@twotravelingkings I never really thought our sausages would be different!
Oh no, epic fail, you didn't get the health and safety memo, the onions go on first. This is to prevent them falling out when eating the snag and causing a "slip hazard".
Caused a real stink, everyone knows the onions go on top.
Haha saw a news clip about that!
You can still get onions on top
The sausage sandwiches are for charity.
These organisations book their turn to hire the tent etc.
The proceeds go to that organisation.
Very popular with Ozzies.
Good to know!
Glad you mentioned Tomato Sauce as opposed to ketchup. Another quirk, Australians call napkins, serviettes.
😊 tomato sauce is much different here!
You nailed it. A snag sanga is all about personal taste. If you liked it you got it right. I like to 'butteryfly' the thick sausages (cook them for a while then cut them length wise and cook them meat side down for a while). Then two slices of bread, make a sandwich (Sanga lol), lots of onion and BBQ sauce !
Sounds good! 😊
I volunteered once as the “cook” for my sons local soccer team. I smelt like roasted meat and onions for a week. 😂
Haha 😊
I was at Bunnings just yesterday volunteering at a Bunnings sausage sizzle fundraiser 😀
Delicious 😊
I'm a Brit living in New Zealand, where the same sausage sizzle is common. You are not missing out on the precooked sausages that are commonly used at these events. The nice aspect of the sausage sizzle is that they are raising money for good causes in the community.
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oh just bloody wonderful - now the kiwis will want to claim that as well
You two really do miss Australia, don’t you? ☺️
Haha having fun with these videos 😊
You totally nailed it!!!
As others have mentioned, the sausage sizzle is a fundraising event for not-for-profit community groups- as the co-ordinator of a lifestyle program in an aged care facility, I have hosted many Bunnings events....takes me about a year to get over it, as the aroma of the snags and onions sure does permeate into your inner soul....but the upside is, we would always raise $1800-$2000 at each BBQ and were able to use that cash to fund outings and equipment for my Hostel of 60 residents with the average age of 92.... so I say bravo to Bunnings and bravo to you guys, love love 💕 your vids
Thanks for the kind words 😊 and thanks for watching!
I think you nailed the sausage sizzle !
FYI: During State and Federal elections where voting is compulsory here, polling booths will have a sausage sizzle with beverage of choice (coffee,tea or soda) for the queuing voters on behalf of local community groups. It makes the queuing bearable!
Not a bad idea 😊
#democracysausage
Not to forget our voting is compulsory so we have to either get in line or get a fine.
My understanding is that if the puree of fruit is strained so all seeds and peel is removed and then it is thickened it is a spreadable jelly... if the seeds and/or peel is left in it is jam.
Good to know
As a kid growing up in Australia, and jelly here, as in "Aeroplane Jelly" (look it up) - jello there... I couldn't figure why on earth would you put that on a sandwich. So when I first went to the USA I had to ask someone. But then going to a buffet place you actually have jlly (jello) not for sweets (dessert) but part of the main meal. Yes you guys are weird!
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I used to help with sausage sizzles for my Karate club, because we started in the morning, we used to also sell egg and bacon muffins, along side the snags. Except, to make it neater and easier to assemble (and eat), we used to crack the eggs into egg rings on the bbq, then sprinkle bacon pieces into the egg. easier to flip whilst cooking and things don't fall apart whilst people are trying to eat. You could also add onion to them if you wanted.
Sounds delicious 😊
Butttttteeeerrrrrr, you forgot to butter the bread!😅
Lol you guys love your butter! 😊
It's so cute that you said tomato like we do in the spirit of eating an Aussie sausage sizzle. (I'm watching all your videos right now because I'm in hospital, so that's why I'm writing so many comments today)
Edit: as a kid at school in the 90s/2000s, they'd run a sausage sizzle annually where we'd pay $2 at lunch time. Since they bought in bulk, it was a great way to raise money for the school. So raising money with sausage sizzles has been a big part of Aussie culture for many decades :)
Thanks so much for all the comments and for watching :) Hope you're okay
I’m Australian and had Peanut Butter and Jam sandwich today for lunch. Love it, however I’ve always just used strawberry jam, I didn’t know grape jam (jelly) was a thing.
Haha yes grape jelly/jam is the standard here in the US 😊
You need to work on the "Truckie's Breakfast" Buttered Weet Bix with strawberry jam washed down with a cuppa tea. Breakfast of champions. Far better than Devonshire Teas,
@@flamingfrancis YES my dad's a trucky and he always has that kinda stuff, except he drinks esspresso's to keep awake since he used to drive dump trucks at the mines.
New subscriber. Your coffee comparison vlog was recommended by YT and I’m glad I watched it and end up binge watching majority of your vlogs when you were still in Australia up to the most recent ones. Really enjoyed it. Hope both of you and those dear to you are doing okay with the current lockdown where you’re at. Stay safe.
Thanks so much for watching and the kind words 😊 we appreciate it
Beef snags only, brown the onions, onions on the bread then the snag, I have BBQ sauce and mustard on mine. US jelly is runnier than our jam. Bunnings snags are fund raisers for community groups, who supply, cook their own ingredients. Bunnings only supply the BBQ. The Bunnings snag has been in hiatus for 6 months due to C-19, but its back. Woohoo.
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To elaborate on the Sausage Sizzles at Bunnings, majority of the sales would be for whomever is running it. Sometimes it can be a charity like Salvation Army or even for a local Rotary club. It varies depending on what they're donating for and each store would have different people there. Pretty much all of them are volunteers and I know some people that have done it for the scouts etc.
Good to know!
Well done guys! However, traditionally, the sausage would normally be of a BEEF style. Having said that, most Aussie’s will BBQ all different styles of sausages with varying contents; beef, chicken, lamb, pork; and with different levels of herbs and spices. So much flavour to choose from in Australia. When/if you get back here, look us up in Cronulla, Sydney and I’ll help educate you and show you the better side of SYDNEY!!! Message me here when you do!
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come to perth and we will show you the better part of Australia
Yes! I have, but only because I grew up in America and had them as an 8 year old. Since then? No way! I have more respect for my body than that. But I must say, it was pretty good, especially with crunchy PB.
Btw, Bunnings doesn't actually serve the sausages, it merely provides the facilities for use by deserving community organisations like volunteer firefighters and kindergartens, who provide the workers and food, and benefit from the money earned. Betcha didn't know that!
Btw2: Loved the way Jenny shot a glance at Logan at the start when he pulled a very respectable "g'day", and highly impressed with the "to-mah-to sauce" that you both offered up without any visible effort! Love you guys!
Thanks so much for watching 😊 appreciate the kind words
spot on lovely people!, that looks like a snag and bread that any Aussie would be proud of.....now i'm hungry, time to fire up the barbie!!!!
Haha it was great! 😊
I'm a fair bloody dinkum Aussie carpenter, I used to take peanut butter and jam sandwiches in my work lunch box. Tomato sauce is also called "dead horse" in Australia, we have our Dog's eye with Dead Horse, which means a meat pie with tomato sauce.
Thanks for the translation 😂
"Great Aussie Taco"
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I used to cook the sausage sizzles for my local footy club. loved it
They're great!
You two are true blue Aussies its the bees knees Bunnings started in Western Australia
Cheers 😊
Usually sausage sizzles done outside bunnings are done by local communities doing some fund raising for a particular cause, for example a local school, often set up temporarily in the car park, so usually its a temporary setup. you may get it with ordinary plain simple sausages, but often you may get a higher quality sausage such an Kransky, or Chirrozo and there are numerous others (these are usually traditional European Sausages many are German such as Bratwurst.
Good to know!
The classic Aussie sandwich would have to be vegimite and cheese
A great combination 😊
add a slice of fresh lettuce. It will change your life.
@@dougoldmeadow1620 Yes, vegemite and lettuce sangas are a favourite of mine. I wish cafés sold this sort of stuff.
Vegemite and Honey, that's a great combo, sweet & sour 'Aussie/Asian' sanger
You guys are simply the best and as far as this Aussie is concerned you are already Australians, welcome back anytime. The sanga sandwich looked sweet as. Stay Safe
Thanks!! 😊
Saturday mornings in Aus smell like a sausage sandwich . You guys nailed it . Snags might have been a bit thick , but I think I'd go with your size if given the choice .
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Haha yeah tough to find sausages like we had in Australia. Thanks for watching! 😊
You did pretty well considering you can't get the same sausages we use in Australia for sausage sizzles. If you try it again I'd suggest try using sandwich slices instead of toast slices, unless you really like bread more than the sausage
@@twotravelingkings Getting the cheapest snags you could find was a very Aussie approach!
At my local Bunnings, they have American mustard alongside the tomato sauce, so you can add some of that as well. You can add a can soft drink with your sausage sizzle as well.
Sounds tasty! 😊
Chicken, turkey and fennel sausages. Well ain’t you fancy.... 😂
Haha they were tasty 😊
Bunnings sausage sizzle is a fund raiser. So many people support it. You forgot the marg, butter or oil but apart that well done.
Thanks! 😊
I hope you buttered the bread! :D
Oops 😬
for the Bunnings sausage? Never have I had that, bread (no butter), snag, onions, American Mild Mustard + Tomato Sauce, done.
I'm an Australian (that has been to the states), if I understand correctly US jelly is basically the fruit conservative (jam) without any fruit - so just the "jelly". I feel about peanut butter & jelly sandwiches the way most Americans feel about vegemite...
I didn't realized that a sausage in a piece of bread with onions and sauce was such a Aussie thing.
Learning something new everyday. Thanks for watching! 😊
My usual Bunnings "one with" (for sausage with onions...) also includes American Mustard. Who knew? Go figure!
Stretch goal for you: I'm looking forward to hearing more "no worries" and "yeah nah".
Because you're Ozzies now.
We need to protect them from nay, yeah, like a Kiwi ...
Haha nah yeah mustard would be great on it 😊
this is great and well done guys. I love that you had a go and I cook this all the time at home so easy peasy. Such a quick easy snack / meal. Love this video. Made me smile and
g'day from Melbourne Australia. Your sausages were a tad "fattter" that ours but any one will really do glad you loved it.
G'day! Glad you enjoyed it. Was delicious 😊
I'd love to see you making a pavlova! (And ignore the rabbit hole about is it from NZ or Australia - just enjoy it.)
Looking forward to trying it 😊
I love how a hardware store has become such an icon on social media here. Was so sad when they closed the sausage sizzle during peak covid, its not a bunnings trip without smelling BBQ when you get out of your car.
This video was heaps funny and you did a great job on your sausage sanga!
Thanks for watching! 😊 Had fun making this vid
Glad you enjoyed the snags. Maybe you could show us some local cuisine of North Carolina?
Sure thing! 😊
If you want to represent NC cuisine, it’s got to start with barbecue. The battle of Eastern vs Lexington.
Great sausage sizzle! At Bunnings they put the onion under the sausage, so it is less likely to fall on the ground and become a slipping hazard, although it traditionally goes on top.
You can also mix it up a bit with different sauces and toppings, but the classic is exactly as you did it. I like to add cheese and some mustard (along with the tomato sauce).
We heard about the onion slippage incident in the comments! Interesting
They allow community groups to run the sausage sizzle. That way community groups can raise funds.
Good to know!
The sausage sizzle as you call it is a means of different groups raising funds. So every time you go it will be a different group, ie scouts, football club, netball club, etc raising funds for their group.
Good to know!
you need to put some beer on the onions when cooking ....
Sounds delicious 😋 thanks for the tip!
You both are welcome anytime here in Australia. Happy you loved our country and the time you were here. If you come to Brisbane, I have a room for you both. Stay safe.
Cheers 😊
Hi guys. As always another great video. Starting to become more like aussies in each video. Wont be long and you will be filling out the citizenship papers. Your second family awaits your return.
Stay safe
Haha thanks for watching! Had fun with this one 😊
Americas Cup 1983 in Perth.
Supermarkets were full of American products. Chips, candy, sodas, chocolate and jars and jars of peanut butter and jelly.
Bunnings sausage sizzle is all about that wafting aroma of BBQ'd beef snags and onion. Often you'll be there of a weekend just to grab some screws or potting soil and there they are at the front entrance sizzling away. It's very tempting for sure.
Aftering trying our homemade version we can definitely imagine how tempting it would be 😋
I had no idea that between our two great nations we have so many different ‘little’ cultural differences, ie your availability, or lack of availability for the basic thin, beef sausage 😯
It's so interesting to find out all of the little differences 😊
@@twotravelingkings I love a sausage sizzle - always have lots of onions, tomato sauce down one side of sausage and lots of mustard down the other - tastes great
As a Bunnings employee of five years, hi from Australia!
I'm usually out the back unloading the trucks, invoicing and sorting goods by their departments. We have a former Californian working with us, George. He's a pretty cool dude😃👍
Haha nice 😊
You forgot the butter! 😩😩
Still tasted good 😊
Sausage sizzle doesn't have Butter! Sausage sizzle has been around long before Bunnings! It was used as a marketing strategy to get people to their stores when they first started opening up around Australia (early 1990's). Classically a loaf of white bread has 20 - 22 slices if you use the crusts and a kilo of thin beef sausages (roughly 14-16 sauasages) raises a reasonable amount of money depending on participation,
Sausage sizzles have always used as a fund raiser by sporting clubs, social clubs, Scouts , etc,
@@mmouse3931 - some may have no butter, but I prefer it with. I LOVE MY BUTTER! 😂😂👍🏻
A few years ago I volunteered to work a Bunnings BBQ on behalf of my kids Scout and Girl Guide groups. You provide the bread, sausage, onions etc and Bunnings provide the BBQ and gas. Its actually a great day out on the working side with the other parents. We had the kids selling raffle tickets. Groups compete for BBQ days. Great fundraiser. Off course there is election days but they don't come around as often.
Very cool!
It isn't reallly correct to state that orgainsations "compete" for allocations. Bunnings staff actually keep records and make sure the allocations are done fairly and equitably amongst the organiations that apply.
Good try but bbq sauce is better lol
no
Yeah nah mate 😊
Bbq sauces is the devils work, like 5 cylinder Volvos.
You've cracked it. Perfect. Accurately I might have to have a trip to Bunnings this weekend.
Cheers 😊 have a snag for us
Dont know about the East Coast, but here in Perth WA we use bread hot dog rolls. So basically a hot dog made with a BBQ sausage, we even offer sauce, mustard ,or both... Thay are not made inside the Bunnings stores, but out side in a small markee at the entrances.
Good to know!
I live in Sydney and actually work for bunnings...you've done a pretty good job
Thanks! 😊
Great effort at the sausage sizzle. the origin of a sausage sizzle at Bunnings is as a community money raiser. Sausage sizzles are really common at local footy matches, school fairs etc, so Bunnings offered to let schools and community clubs sell sausages at their stores as lots of people go there to get stuff on a Saturday. The other thing i wanted ti explain is about jelly.. The word jelly, comes from the word, gelatine, which is usrd to set liquids into a jelly consistency whereas jams use the whole fruit and a natural fruit substance cslled pectin causes tbe jam to thicken. There are sometimes jelly type 'jams' which usually have all the flesh removed. I'd love to know if you read this and find it interesting. Im enjoying your videos.
Very good to know 😊 and thanks for watching! More videos to come
Mates; good onya for giving it a go!
Snag sangas are a staple Aussie food, dished up at every bbq in 'Straya since forever.
Bunnings didn't invent them, but I'm sure others have told you this.
Just a tip... you're supposed to stab your snags a few times before cooking (It lets the hot fat out).
You guys are such good ambassadors for your country; cheerful, positive and self-effacing.
No wonder you fitted in here so well...It's almost like you were born to live in Oztraya!
You even pronounced "tomato" correctly...kudos!
peace - out
Thanks for the kind words! 😊
I was raised on Peanut Butter & Honey sandwiches. But you should butter both slices, then peanut butter both slices and honey only one slice. Why? The butter and peanut butter will stop the bread soaking up the honey during the day until eaten (a big consideration when made for school lunch in the mornings). You can substitute any jam. I sometimes have apricot jam with my peanut butter. And yes... I get the giant jars or Skippy peanut butter (smooth) from Costco here.
Smart tip about the honey! 😊
Dam guys I'm off to bunnings for a snag omg so so hungry now. Us Aussie have some great food. So so so glad to see someome showed you how to eat Vegemite. It and snags are a staple food in most Aussie house holds
Haha 😊
Yeah before Bunnings had this the Scouts use to setup a BBQ at the front of Bunnings. I don't know when but yeah at some point they decided to setup their own & told the Scouts to go else where.
I still remember pilling so many bags of onions & chopping them up on the Friday night before a whole weekend of cooking at Bunnings.
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We had Friday night sausage sizzles at my son’s junior cricket games for years! It’s an institution in Aussie life, regardless of the event. Hard to beat for a quick fix🤤
Too good!
I found out was very difficult in the US to find bread without sugar, which (thankfully) just doesn't happen with regular bread in Australia. So the taste of the bread is also a significant difference.
We never really noticed to be fair! We eat wheat bread
Good on ya, I hope you enjoyed your stay, and you are welcome back any time. Very enjoyable video.
Thanks 😊
In American terms, the onions typically get cut in quarter inch slices. So not too thin, or thick. Beef sausages are normally used. Also, I can't remember ever seeing grape jam here. Berry type jams, Apricot and plum are the thing here.
Apricot jam 👌
Very similar, I do like margarine on my bread with coleslaw/orion/tomato sauce/snag or sausage.
Nice 😊
good work its the smell of the cooking that's the catch
😊 thanks!
ok from an Australian who loves both the Bunnings store and a good sausage sizzle, to clear up the Bunnings sausage sizzle puzzle,"why does a home improvement store sell sausages in bread?"
well technically Bunnings doesn't actually sell/provide the sausages its a community service they provide to local community groups,sports clubs etc to raise money to help buy the sporting equipment or what ever else they need.
Any club community group car bike local dance groups etc, you get the picture,can apply to hold a fund raising sausage sizzle and so popular the waiting list to hold one is long.
Paul from Australia ps love watching the comparisons from you yanks between our countries and language
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The last comment is almost correct. The sausage sizzle is for charity groups to raise funds but Bunnings supplies the custom made BBQ. Every Bunnings that does the BBQ has the same unit. The drinks, sausages. source and bread are the same or should be wherever you go in Aus. Oh. And after the great onion incident (look it up) the onion has to be on the bottom. Cheers.
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One thing to make it a genuine sausage sizzle is that the sausage and onions should be done on a BBQ or is it the out door grill over there that gives it a better flavor
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Close, but Aussies usually put BBQ sauce instead of tomato sauce. And we do love our butter, so we'd put butter or margarine on the bread. Sausage sizzles have also been a part of community in Australia for more than 50 years (and I'm only saying that because there's a photo of me at 1 with a snag in bread in my hand and I'm over 50). School fetes (fairs), elections, charity fundraisers, end of year soccer games, it's one of those things we do as a community that no one would know where it started, but everyone has manned a barbie at one point or another. It's also a thing for kids at barbies where the adults had steaks or seafood, the kids always got sausages and the bread is a great way to eat and hold something hot.
You do love your butter! 😊
The Bunnings Sausage Sizzle is only on Saturdays and Sundays.
A charity or community group gets to operate the Sausage Sizzle and the proceeds are for that charity or community group.
The next week, it will be a different charity that are running the sausage sizzle. Etc
Each location hosts a different charity or community group.
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