Sausages are the cut people under-buy at a party and over-buy for a quiet weekend. The packs at Meatsupermarket.com are honest counts: 6, 12, 24. 6x Pork Sausages - 350g Pack is a breakfast or two people. 12x Pork Sausages 700g Pack is a family tea or a small grill. 24x Pork Sausage MEGA BBQ Party Pack is a party if sausages are a main, not a garnish. Sausages and burgers and sausages are where to look, not a mystery hamper, unless you wanted mixed meat.
Party arithmetic
Adults eating sausages as a main: three each if there is bread and mustard, two if there are burgers too. Children: one or two. Ten adults as a sausage-forward grill is a 24 and a 12, not a 6 and a prayer. Leftover uncooked sausages freeze. Cooked leftover sausages become a traybake. Hungry guests do not freeze.
If burgers are the main, a 12 of sausages is the side. If it is a breakfast party, a 12 plus bacon from breakfast meats is more useful than a 24 of sausages and no bacon. People remember the missing item, not the maths you did in your head.
Cooking them properly
Sausages want medium heat so the skins do not split while the middle is raw. Oven 190°C, 25 to 30 minutes, turn once, is kinder for a 24 than a crowded pan. Probe 75°C if you are unsure. Do not prick them all over like a 1980s textbook unless you enjoy dry sausage.
After the party
Freeze the unopened spare pack. Do not leave a thawed 24 in the fridge for a week “because they’re sausages”. They are still meat. Eat or freeze within the label. That is how a party pack stays a saving rather than a smell.
If you are still unsure, buy the 12 and a spare 6 in the freezer. Opening the spare is easy. Apologising at an empty grill is not. Sausages are arithmetic in a skin, and the pack sizes are there so you can stop guessing.
Keep sides simple so the meat can be the cook: potatoes, greens, rice, a bun. A pack is not a tasting menu. If you attempt six projects, the meat will be the thing that goes grey while you chop. One good cut, two sides, sit down. That is as true of How Many Sausages to Buy for a Party as of any other pack we send out of the cutting room. Cook it like the cut it is, and it will earn the next click.