The
sausage lots were then blended in a mixer (SCHARFEN, Germany) and
then stuffed into the casings using a stuffing machine (TRE SPADE,
Italy) to prepare sausages that weighed approximately 100g each. Each
batch was then tied with a string and transferred to a climate chamber
(GFL, Germany) in which the temperature and humidity were controlled.
During fermentation (1week) and ageing (3weeks), the climate
was adjusted as shown in Table 3. Smoking was excluded fromthis process
to avoid its influence on the microbiological characterization.