Process for producing helical or spiral sausages

A process for producing a helical or spiral shaped sausage, the sausage consisting of:

• a protein-containing sausage mixture, a meat-containing sausage mixture, or a blend thereof, and the sausage having a sausage skin which surrounds the mixture or blend thereof;
• the process comprising modifying the sausage mixture, or blend thereof, by a heat or steam treatment to form a strand of sausage mixture, or blend thereof, into a helical or spiral shaped sausage with individual turns which adjoin one another or which touch one another, wherein a plurality of discharge openings are provided on a carrier for delivering the sausage mixture, or blend thereof, as a length of a sausage strand, and depositing the sausage strand on a deposition side located under the plurality of discharge openings on the carrier, and wherein the carrier is moving in at least two axial directions extending perpendicular to one another.