goin to smoking some bacon , what breed of hog makes the best bacon?
using berkshire's for hams , duroc for ribs and butts.
using berkshire's for hams , duroc for ribs and butts.
what breed
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Most commercial hogs today are not purebred, they are a mixture of breeds that are specially bred to produce a lean meaty carcass with a high feed to rate of gain conversion rate. I would guess that most are a 3 way terminal cross. IMHO the bacon will be great from any of these.
To my knowledge, Cowgirl is the pig expert on this forum, perhaps she will chime in somewhere.
To my knowledge, Cowgirl is the pig expert on this forum, perhaps she will chime in somewhere.
which breed makes the best bacon, is it some with a lot of marbling between the tissue like the berkshire or some lean like the white crosses .
praise be to the wise ones and thanks to all
praise be to the wise ones and thanks to all
According to most farm web sites I googled, the Tamworth breed seems to be the choice for bacon. Here's a quote from Pig Paradise Farm.
"The Tamworth is one of the great ‘dual purposeâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji] pigs producing stunningly good pork as well as equally tremendous bacon. In the mid 1990â€[emoji]8482[/emoji]s the Tamworth came top in a taste test carried out by Bristol University using both commercial and rare breed pigs in a scientifically controlled experiment. It was later suggested that further investigation should take place to establish just what it was that gave the Tamworth meat such a distinctive taste putting it way above all the other breeds."[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
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"The Tamworth is one of the great ‘dual purposeâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji] pigs producing stunningly good pork as well as equally tremendous bacon. In the mid 1990â€[emoji]8482[/emoji]s the Tamworth came top in a taste test carried out by Bristol University using both commercial and rare breed pigs in a scientifically controlled experiment. It was later suggested that further investigation should take place to establish just what it was that gave the Tamworth meat such a distinctive taste putting it way above all the other breeds."[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
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i've only done feral & javelina(goat knows) either way they're both wild & depends on rain & forage & age of the pig as to what ya get. bacon(after beer) is my next project- thatnx for the info guys
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