Véritables knacks d'Alsace

Véritables knacks d'Alsace are the quick-cooking frankfurters people buy for hot dogs, simple plates, or a fast dinner with mustard and bread. By our assessment, they are valued for their snap and their straightforward smoked-sausage character, which is what this Alsace style is supposed to deliver. The honest limit is that industrial knack sausage is still a processed sausage, so it is built for convenience more than for subtlety. In use it is nearly as plain as it sounds: heat it, split it if needed, and serve it with something starchy. Against artisan sausages it is less nuanced, but against a more ordinary supermarket frankfurter it has a clearer regional identity. It works best when treated as a simple hot sausage, not as a delicacy.