lotalota

I have never tried to dehydrate sausage in link form...

I would agree with you though, that the danger is turning them into hard rocks.

Even when drying things like split pea soup, the soup turns into hard little nuggets that will not reconstitute. I have found it necessary to put the soup into a blender... I imagine that I could keep this from happening if I was to spread the soup very thin on the leather sheets but I think it takes too much time. I just grind it to powder in the blender and it works great.

I am not sure how successful your experiment will be, but good luck.

Mark