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Post by sabrinae on Aug 10, 2022 20:13:25 GMT
My daughter raised two hogs for 4-H this year, so she’ll sell one in the livestock sale, but we’re having the other one butchered. We don’t a cut sheet yet, but I’ve done some googling. Anyone have recommendations On which cuts to get or which cuts to avoid? About the only thing I’ve decided so far is that I’m going to leave the pork belly uncured as I can’t buy uncured pork belly where I live.
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Post by Merge on Aug 10, 2022 20:28:55 GMT
I like a pork shoulder steak but not everyone does
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Post by MissBianca on Aug 10, 2022 20:41:58 GMT
When do you need to know by? My son is a butcher but he’s at a concert right now, I can ask him to give me a list when he gets home but it might be tomorrow.
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Post by bc2ca on Aug 10, 2022 20:45:33 GMT
This is probably completely unhelpful, but DH's friend used to buy a hog at the county fair and had a lot of it made into sausages. I only remember because he'd always bring them to the Chargers tailgate and they were very popular.
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Post by sabrinae on Aug 10, 2022 20:47:37 GMT
When do you need to know by? My son is a butcher but he’s at a concert right now, I can ask him to give me a list when he gets home but it might be tomorrow. Thank you! I appreciate that. Tomorrow is fine. The hog will go to the butcher Friday night after the livestock sale and the butcher is supposed to call the next week. |
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Post by sabrinae on Aug 10, 2022 20:48:34 GMT
I like a pork shoulder steak but not everyone does I like pork shoulder steaks too, but my husband isn’t a big fan. We’ll probably end up with at least some. |
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Post by MissBianca on Aug 10, 2022 20:51:58 GMT
When do you need to know by? My son is a butcher but he’s at a concert right now, I can ask him to give me a list when he gets home but it might be tomorrow. Thank you! I appreciate that. Tomorrow is fine. The hog will go to the butcher Friday night after the livestock sale and the butcher is supposed to call the next week. I sent him a text but I know he’s driving, hopefully he will see it when he gets there. If not, I’ll ask when the kids get home. The up side of a pig is you can literally use every part of it if you want. I’ll have him write up a list in order of preference. He’s a chef too so he was able to cut them cook his animals from beginning to end. |
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Post by sabrinae on Aug 10, 2022 20:52:04 GMT
This is probably completely unhelpful, but DH's friend used to buy a hog at the county fair and had a lot of it made into sausages. I only remember because he'd always bring them to the Chargers tailgate and they were very popular. We’ll probably end up doing a couple different varieties of sausage ourself out of the ground pork. But, it’s a 271 pound hog so I don’t want all of it ground. I’m going to keep the pork belly uncured (not made into bacon) bit other than that I don’t really know what is best |
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Post by sabrinae on Aug 10, 2022 20:54:00 GMT
Thank you! I appreciate that. Tomorrow is fine. The hog will go to the butcher Friday night after the livestock sale and the butcher is supposed to call the next week. I sent him a text but I know he’s driving, hopefully he will see it when he gets there. If not, I’ll ask when the kids get home. The up side of a pig is you can literally use every part of it if you want. I’ll have him write up a list in order of preference. He’s a chef too so he was able to cut them cook his animals from beginning to end. Thank you very much. I’m a pretty good cook so I’m comfortable figuring out how to use most things, but we’ve never had a pig butchered so I’m not sure what’s the best cuts to get. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2022 21:31:38 GMT
I like getting loins as I can cook it a variety of ways, but also can cut it into boneless chops myself if I need to. We butchered a hog during Covid mostly ourselves (first time ever!) and made our own bacon and pancetta!
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Post by librarylady on Aug 10, 2022 21:35:18 GMT
Summer sausage is something we like.
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Post by **GypsyGirl** on Aug 10, 2022 22:46:04 GMT
Tenderloin is my favorite followed by a thick pork chop.
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Post by boys5times on Aug 11, 2022 1:18:37 GMT
I don't care for the shoulder steaks, and would rather have the sausage. Another thing to decide is if you want ham whole or cut in half or sliced. Good luck to your daughter! Has she been in 4H long? We had our local fair last Thursday-Sunday, with the auction on Sunday, and they set a new record of 1.3 million! I had 2 grandsons with hogs; I LOVE watching them show for market & then for showmanship.
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Post by huskermom98 on Aug 11, 2022 11:45:38 GMT
If you know where the hog will be butchered you can look to see if they have a website with cut lists. We got a 1/4 beef last year from a friend's farm and the butcher they use has a set list that they cut. We had to decide if we wanted to keep or grind/discard certain parts (brisket, heart liver, etc) and how we wanted certain parts (ground beef tube size, how many steaks/cuts in a package).
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Post by sabrinae on Aug 11, 2022 17:14:02 GMT
If you know where the hog will be butchered you can look to see if they have a website with cut lists. We got a 1/4 beef last year from a friend's farm and the butcher they use has a set list that they cut. We had to decide if we wanted to keep or grind/discard certain parts (brisket, heart liver, etc) and how we wanted certain parts (ground beef tube size, how many steaks/cuts in a package). I’m assuming they will either give us a cut list or talk us through one, but they don’t have one on their website. I’ve looked at a couple of other ones online. |
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Post by sabrinae on Aug 11, 2022 17:15:42 GMT
Summer sausage is something we like. I didn’t even think about checking to see if they will do summer sausage. I’ll check, we like summer sausage. |
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Post by sabrinae on Aug 11, 2022 17:21:05 GMT
I don't care for the shoulder steaks, and would rather have the sausage. Another thing to decide is if you want ham whole or cut in half or sliced. Good luck to your daughter! Has she been in 4H long? We had our local fair last Thursday-Sunday, with the auction on Sunday, and they set a new record of 1.3 million! I had 2 grandsons with hogs; I LOVE watching them show for market & then for showmanship. She and her sister have done rabbits the last 3-4 years, but this year is the first we have had hogs. My husband had hogs for 4-H When he was a kid, but doesn’t remember anything about processing them. |
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