Sausage links on cutting board over stone surface, peppercorns, grill fork, and sprig of thyme - Mironov Vladimir/Shutterstock When you're buying sausage to cook at home, there are a lot of choices.

Summer sausage, kielbasa, bologna, bratwurst: The list goes on and on. There are so many varieties of sausage. How long can you store them — and where? Are they fully cooked or not? The following ...

We tried 19 store-bought breakfast sausage—links and patties, fresh and precooked—to find the ones worth getting out of bed ...