Before and After

[ltdann]

Got the hog last week. Did 2 hams, bone-in and boneless and both hocks. Put it in the brine on Monday and placed in the smoker last night. It was in the smoker almost 24 hours, but oohh.....so good!

 

[leftyhunter]

Looks good enough to eatig-laughing:

Leftyhunter

 

[leftyhunter]

:toast-yellowoes hams look plenty good and plenty lean. I heard that once a pig is say over 200lps its not worth buchering for various cuts of meat but just making into sasuage. I don't know first hand if thats true or not. Again does hams do look scrumptous.

 

[jb229]

Nice! what did you get the internal temp too I just pulled out a Roast today that I am going to smoke.

Looks awsome.

 

[rogsworld]

looks awesome. Is the party tonight?

 

[myfriendis410]

Good looking piece of meat, Dan. Save me a slice.

I'm going to do that ham I've got; maybe this week. We'll see how it goes......

 

[calisdad]

Looks good enough to eatig-laughing:

Leftyhunter

Dang. Now I'm hungry again.

 

[Fastshot]

Mmmmmm looks good.

 

[Forest Crawler]

That looks amazing. Great stuff!

 

[ltdann]

Nice! what did you get the internal temp too I just pulled out a Roast today that I am going to smoke.

Looks awsome.

I kept the smoker temp at 120 for 12 hrs, 2 hours each at 130, 140 150 with smoke, then raised to 165 and switched the thermometer into the hams until it reached 155.

Of course in it was in the pickle for 5 days.
A Beginner's Easter Ham

I took out the juniper berries and added about 1/2 pd of brown sugar.

 

[bux-n-dux]

Very nice work. I've smoked a few hams and that looks like top notch work.

bux-n-dux

 

[jls456]

Sound like a good recipie. Think I will gice it a try...

 

[HOGHUNTER714]

Man that looks Freaking Awesome! I am gonna have to give that a try!!

 

[Vermonster]

That looks plain AWESOME!!!!! Just curious, how big was the piggie, and did you butcher it yourself or have someone do it?

 

[BelchFire]

Now THAT'S my kind of before and after! Ltdann, YOU ROCK! You'd make a good southerner. Downright, tasty; I can tell jus by lookin. :thumbs up: :thumbs up:

mmmmmm-MMMMMM!

 

[ltdann]

That looks plain AWESOME!!!!! Just curious, how big was the piggie, and did you butcher it yourself or have someone do it?

It was 119.4 pds hanging, so thats 78% of the live weight... which makes it around 153 pds on the hoof.

Yeah, I do all my own wild game butchering. I like that I can make the chops as thick as I want, not what some butcher decides. Its pretty easy, especially pigs. Its like they're designed for easy butchering. Nothings gets wasted except the Oink!

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No special equipment required. I don't even have a meat saw, I use a short wood saw called the shark and a decent boning knife.

Thanks Belch, thats highest form of compliment!

 

[weekender21]

You look like a pro doing that!!! Yum.

 

[ltdann]

You look like a pro doing that!!! Yum.

Love doing my own game. Took my first deer to a butcher...it was a perfect carcass, nice and clean. When I got my meat back, there were dirt clods and chunks of fur on the meat.

Did it again about 2 years ago to have some sausage made. It was so bad I stripped the casings off and remade my own sausage. Never again.

Been doing my own game butchering and making my own sausage for about 15 years. Its amazingly easy.

 

[bux-n-dux]

Love doing my own game. Took my first deer to a butcher...it was a perfect carcass, nice and clean. When I got my meat back, there were dirt clods and chunks of fur on the meat.

Did it again about 2 years ago to have some sausage made. It was so bad I stripped the casings off and remade my own sausage. Never again.

Been doing my own game butchering and making my own sausage for about 15 years. Its amazingly easy.

I would have to second that. A small meat grinder is a very valuable tool to the successful hunter. There are many good books out there that can help ANYONE get started. I personally have never used a butcher, but then again I am one. Even before I became a cutter i was processing my own game however.

bux-n-dux

 

[bowslinger]

awww man, that looks delicious...