I’m lazy, so I usually wrap my bangers in foil and cook them in the toaster oven. Tonight I pan-cooked them, and they’re never as good that way as baked. I was watching a show on The Travel Channel a while ago, and they featured Ye Olde King’s Head (my old haunt). They had a quick shot of the bangers being put into the deep fryer. Works great with Polish sausages. (I score them deeply on opposite sides, so they ‘accordion’ and the ‘ribs’ get crispy.)
Has anyone tried deep-frying bangers? What’s your preferred method of cooking them?
Wow - I loved Ye Olde King’s Head – as well as their little sister shop nearby that served tea (can’t remember its name, but they had the best sausage rolls evah!).
I had no idea they deep-fried their bangers! I’m a grill person myself, although I know that goes against the grain of having them be so mundanely beige. But when it is too cold to grill, I pan fry mine.
But FRIED??? Who’d-a-thunk?
Are you seriously suggesting you’ve never had fried sausages?
I think fried and deep-fried are going to be two different things.
I prefer sausages cooked in a pan with some beer; so yummy!
And thanks to Get Him To the Greek, I read this whole thread going ‘OUCH!!’ 
If the quick clip I saw on The Travel Channel is what it appeared to be, then yes; I’ve eaten many fried sausages. (‘Fried’ meaning the sausage is immersed in hot oil.) And as I said, cooking Polish sausages that way is my preferred method. It just never occurred to me that bangers would be cooked that way. I’m definitely going to try it that way next time.
A note on the Polish: I was in the San Diego Navy Sailing Club as an adolescent. That’s where I learned to cook them. The process was this: Slice the sausage laterally more than halfway through, approximately every 3/4 inch. Rotate the sausage 180º and repeat the process, being careful to slice halfway between the previous slices so as not to sever it. Boil in oil. Serve on a hot dog bun with mayo and chopped, raw, white onions. Nothing better on a cold, gloomy morning while you’re waiting for the fog to lift enough to go sailing.
The Tudor House is around the corner and across 2nd. There was another tea house on Santa Monica Blvd., but I can’t remember the name of it.