Founded June, 2014
Crafter of Gourmet Artisan Sausages™
The Filet Mignon of Sausages™
New World Flavors– Old World Quality™
The Mission
Bring healthy, wholesome food back to our daily diets and dinner table.
Make your own handcrafted sausages. It's easy, it's healthy. When using our natural, old world recipes to make Christoph's Gourmet Artisan Sausages, you will taste flavors like you have never experienced before. Fresh and wholesome ingredients make the difference. Never again eat flavorless, oversalted commercial sausages filled with artificial flavors, colors and carcinogenic preservatives.
Once you make a Christoph's sausage, you will handcraft your favorites again and again. Your family will forever demand the best. Your friends and guests will be impressed, and impressed, and impressed.
We will help you handcraft, step by step, the finest gourmet sausages in the world. We will tell you what fresh, local ingredients to use. Simply add the spice package you need. It's that simple. You're done! Now, enjoy Christoph's Filet Mignion of Sausages™.
About our Gourmet & Artisan Sausage Spices
Unlike other commercial producers, Christoph's™ Gourmet & Artisan Sausages include only naturally grown spices. No artificial flavoring, coloring or preservatives are used. We carefully choose ingredient producers known for their quality and minimal processing standards.
WindyCity Brats™
Handcrafted, Gourmet Artisan Sausages
Make The Beer Taps Flow™
Create New, Exciting Appetizers, Boost Your Lunch , Happy Hour & Dinner Crowds…!
Coming Soon
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Brand - (Made in Palatine, IL) |
A Mild Southwestern Style, Mesquite Smoked Brat – A Premium Pork Sausage. Crafted with a delicate balance of choice peppers, garlic, onion, herbs and spices, this sausage offers delightful notes of a sweet, nutty, molasses-like and smoked mesquite flavors – with every bite.
Meats
A Brief History
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Growing up in the 60's gave my family access to Chicago's "Maxwell Street" markets and exposure to all fresh meats, seafoods, fruits and vegetables. Every dinner was homemade. A trip to the grocery store was unheard of and frowned upon. This set the stage for a passion of non-processed foods and a lifestyle of wholesome meals.
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Ingredients
About Our Ingredients
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Unlike other commercial producers, Christoph's™ Gourmet & Artisan Sausages include only naturally grown spices. No artificial flavoring, coloring or preservatives are used, except as noted below. Where we do use ingredients which are not 100% natural, we carefully choose producers known for their quality and minimal processing standards. For overall food safety reasons, some ingredients are unavoidable and used even by the most discerning and holistic artisan food producers.
The following sausages contain natural ingredients only:
Christoph's™ – 24/7™
Ingredients: Pork (Butt Shoulder), Pork Fat, Water, Salt, Sugar, Natural Spices.
Christoph's™ – Early Morning™
Ingredients: Pork (Butt Shoulder), Pork Fat, Water, Fresh Chopped Onion, Salt, Natural Spices.
Christoph's™ – Fenocchio, Sweet™
Ingredients: Pork (Butt Shoulder), Pork Fat, Water, Salt, Sugar, Crushed Fennel, Star Anise, Natural Spices
Christoph's™ – Appalachian Fire™
Ingredients: Pork (Butt Shoulder), Pork Fat, Water, Salt, Natural Spices.
Christoph's™ – WindyCity™ Garlic™
Ingredients: Pork (Butt Shoulder), Pork Fat, Water, Salt, Natural Spices.
Christoph's™ – Basil Gorgonzola™
Ingredients: Pork (Butt Shoulder), Pork Fat, Gorgonzola Cheese (Cultured Pasteurized Cow and Sheeps Milk, Enzymes, Salt, Mold), Water, Fresh Chopped Onion, Salt, Natural Spices.
The following sausages contain necessary anti-bacterial preservative ingredients:
Christoph's™ Basil Gorgonzola™ – This sausage requires adding a quality crumbled blue cheese. For food safety, producers may have to add preservatives to their product.
Preparation
Preparation
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Unlike commercial sausages, Christoph's™ uses only 100% Butt Shoulder and Hard Fatback. No scrap, filler or mechanically separated meats are used.
Our pork shoulders are inspected and hand trimmed by professional butchers. These craftsmen remove veins, sinews, tendons, ligaments, fat nodules, blood clots and bone fragments, assuring our products are of the highest quality in flavor and texture.
Our pork comes only from lean, quality hybrid breeds, such as American Yorkshire, Hampshire and Chester White. This pork is then carefully integrated with controlled ratios of Hard Fatback, offering the best attributes of meat to fat ratios for texture and maximum flavor.
Our sausages are encased only in natural hog or sheep casing. We select only the best casings available. Careful attention is paid to their integrity. Our casings are properly rinsed, flushed of all salts and sufficiently soaked for maximum tenderness.
In order to produce the best, pure butt shoulder flavor, Christoph's™ incorporates only Hard Fatback. We do not use inferior rib or belly fats and no salt-pork. This insures the highest craft sausage texture and flavor. For our customers, only the best is used.
There are no artificial ingredients or preservatives added to any of our products. In future recipes, where gourmet/artisan cured products may be incorporated, they will be clearly stated. None of our recipes at this time incorporate artificail preservatives or cured meats. Preservation is achieved through the process of freezing and vacuum packing. Through this process, freshness is maintained for a minimum of six months, with no discernible loss of flavors.
With proper thawing and slow, low heat pan, oven or grill preparation, our sausages taste as good and as fresh as the day they were made. Once you eat and serve our products, you will never again purchase low cost, low quality, commercially prepared sausages.
Yes, our sausages will cost you slightly more - that's because our ingredient costs are higher. But with quality ingredients and careful, small quantity production comes a significantly higher product quality, better tasting food, increased personal health and nutrition.
All of our quality and health conscious customers have said, "Theirs looks like sausage, but it's not a Christoph's."
Wholesale
For Discerning Restaurateurs
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There are over 6,500 food serving establishments in the greater Chicago area. Too many offer the same fare, many attempt to initially distinguish themselves and then stagnate, a few have unique food offerings and continue to keep their menu vibrant with exciting offerings and wholesome plates for the new generation of customers.
If you fall into this innovative, select group, and are looking to serve new flavors, quality and wholesome products, Christoph's™ is the only producer who offers gourmet, artisan and small batch hand crafted sausages for your establishment. Want us to create a custom, private brand flavor for you? Not a problem.
Differentiate yourself. Once your customers taste our "Old World Quality | New World Flavors™", coupled with your culinary creativity, you will leave your competition in the dust.
Spices Available Now
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Christoph’s™
24/7™
A Mild Cardamom Brat – A Premium Pork Sausage. Infused with delicate natural spices, this sausage offers a delightful, mild flavor of Cardamom – with every bite.
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Early Morning™
A Rubbed Sage & Pepper Flake Sausage – A Premium Pork Sausage. A beautifully blended, traditional farmland breakfast sausage, imparting balanced and delicate flavors of sage– with every bite.
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Fenocchio, Sweet™
A Sweet Fennel, Anise , Basil & Garlic Brat – A Premium Pork Sausage. Finally, a real Sicilian, Italian sausage, the way it's supposed to be– with fennel and anise, basil and garlic. Texture and flavor you have never tasted before– with every bite.
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| Basil Gorgonzola™ |
A Basil, Onion & Italian Blue Cheese Brat – A Premium Pork Sausage. Infused with an aged, mild artisan Italian blue cheese, this savoury sausage imparts a creamy texture, engaging aroma and delicious flavor– with every bite.
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| Appalachian Fire™ |
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Brand - (Made in Illinois) |
A Zesty Smoked Paprika, Southern Style Brat – A Premium Pork Sausage. This sausage is filled with mouth watering spices of various peppers and smoked Hungarian paprika, so desired by discerning palates– with every bite.
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WindyCity™ Garlic™
A Sweet Basil & Natural Garlic Brat – A Premium Pork Sausage. All natural, finely chopped sweet basil and aromatic garlic spices reward your palate with quintessential flavors, offering indulgence at it's best– with every bite.
Why Christoph's™
Our foods reflect natural or organic ingredients, containing only the finest that nature offers.
| No MSG | No Potassium Lactate |
| No Fillers | No Sodium Phosphates |
| No Meat By-Products | No Sodium Diacetate |
| No Gluten | No Sodium Erythorbate |
| No Carrageenan | No Maltodextrin |
| No Corn Syrup | No Sodium Nitrate |
| No Artificial Sweetners | No Recovered Meats |
| No Artificial Flavors | No Mechanically Seperated Meats |
New World Flavors – Old World Quality™
Back to Basics – Back to Real Food ™
Copyright
All material, information and images are © 2015–2019 Christoph's, Inc. unless otherwise noted, and may not be reproduced without permission. Certain material, information and images may be subject to copyrights by their respective owners, as indicated, and may not be reproduced without written agreement. Christoph's, 24/7, Early Morning, Appalachian Fire, Fenocchio Sweet, Basil Gorgonzola, Chicago Baja and WindyCity Garlic are trademarks of Christoph's, Inc.