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12-15-2009, 04:25 PM #1
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Bacon, Hams and other essentials
So the other day I marshaled a couple of intrepid eaters to go in on a pig and there ended up being so many that I figured...that just isn’t going to be enough for our own household. In the way such things go, my internal calculus said that’s a perfect excuse for us to get our own pig and then let the others get a community pig to split.
Picked both porkers up Sat, the community porker had a hanging weight of 304#s and ours 287#s, big pigs.
The frozen portion of ours, plus the entire community pig (plus what was in there already) completely fills our 2x4x3.5’ freezer.
And then the ~100#s of fresh (unfrozen) pork about fills my project fridge
All the fresh is going into bacon (1 belly), English bacon ( 1 belly + loin ), ham hocks, guanciale, 1 American style glazed ham and I’m trying one euro style air dried ham as well.
Here you can see both hams (one on salt already and one just before skinning for the brine), and each of the bacons already bagged and ready to go (3 different cures for the loin cut and 3 for the belly).
All in all I’m pretty excited about the whole endeavor. Later this week?
A more graphic picture of my head cheese project main ingredient
Plus some fried pork skins and I have a ton of fat to render as well.
In other news, on the third we welcomed our daughter Diana into the world (been keeping away from the intertubes) both she and mom are doing good.
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12-15-2009, 04:31 PM #2
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12-15-2009, 04:32 PM #3
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That's a lot of pig!
Congrats on the arrival of your daughter! Best wishes!!
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12-15-2009, 05:27 PM #4
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Congrats on the arrival of the little one LB, we have one due in a few months.
A friend grows pigs, all the meat I get from him is excellent... except the bacon, I don't know why but it is really hard to make the good stuff.
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12-15-2009, 07:23 PM #5
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Kind of an odd juxtaposition, but... congrats! Both on the pig and on your daughter!
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12-15-2009, 07:49 PM #6
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Congrats on the daughter!
Man, I want some real fried pork rind...dayglo aerobic enthusiast
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12-15-2009, 09:47 PM #7
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DTM has freezer envy.
Cute kid, DTM2.0 is a month out max. Pics like that manage to push out the thoughts of shit and screaming and really have me looking forward to it.
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12-16-2009, 12:21 AM #8
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That last photo needs to be a new emoticon.
Congratulations on the kid man!
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12-16-2009, 08:33 AM #9
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Very cute nipper! Congrats. Her picture must have dragged the Charlotte's web reference out of the recesses of my memory.Damn, we're in a tight spot!
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12-16-2009, 07:07 PM #10
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12-16-2009, 07:18 PM #11
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many well wishes for your new happy addition! she is adorable.
may she grow into a lovely pig-fed lass
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12-16-2009, 07:32 PM #12
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Congrats!!
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12-16-2009, 07:46 PM #13
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Congrats, very cute little girl.
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12-16-2009, 08:04 PM #14
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LB you do it right.
Introducing your new pork and new daughter in the same post
1,000,000 points to you!!one step forward, no step backward
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12-16-2009, 08:09 PM #15
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Congrats on the new baby LB
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12-16-2009, 08:20 PM #16
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interesting way to incorporate many maggots favorite food product-pork and many others vocation-raising kids. Congrats on both and what a way to celebrate-through meat products.
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12-16-2009, 09:38 PM #17
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Hey! Congrats on your new baybee...and I'm here to say that I still LOVE bacon from the bottom of my heart.
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12-16-2009, 09:52 PM #18
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As a proud father of 2 I can say with certainty that your first sight of a chest freezer full of swine is a sight you'll never forget!
Congrats LB
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12-17-2009, 12:10 AM #19
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rad freezer dOOd, when do you slaugheter the young?
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12-17-2009, 12:38 AM #20
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12-17-2009, 03:52 PM #21
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nice pig. nothing like papa's pride.
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12-17-2009, 10:51 PM #22
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Congratulations on reproducing.
Did you cut it up yourself? I grew a couple pigs this year. I didn't do any of the cutting/curing myself, I just killed it, cleaned it & delivered it to the butcher. I'd really like to learn how to cut meat properly. I've done a couple deer but it would be nice to know WTF I'm doing if I were to cut my own cows & pigs. The deer ended up as "chunks of meat."You are what you eat.
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12-21-2009, 12:57 PM #23
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thanks all!
Beav- No I had it cut, I actually bought two pigs and split one between some other folks and then we're keeping a whole one. I cut up two fronts of an elk from MTM this year and ended up with a similar lot of stuff identifiable only as chunks
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12-21-2009, 01:46 PM #24
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Safe to say that the little cutie-pie will not grow up to be a peta pansy.
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12-21-2009, 04:23 PM #25
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This thread makes me
Congrats on the babe and porker.
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