how long bake sausage
1 Place them back in the oven for another 10 minutes or until sausage is thoroughly cooked through. 2  Remove finished sausage to paper towels or brown paper and blot excess grease off of the links with paper towels. 3  Repeat process until entire 3-pounds of sausage is cooked. When the oven comes up to temperature, place the pan with the sausage on the middle shelf of the oven and bake for 15 minutes. 2  When the time goes off remove the sausage from the oven and rotate them to the other side.