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It’s that time of year to be stocking up on pig butchering supplies. Usually butcher end of January beginning of February Went to 2 places looking for a local made cornmeal. Neither had any plus bulk black pepper scarce. I can’t believe that cornmeal is being hoarded. Didn’t even look for...
This turned out real nice. Ran at 225-240 with hickory. Because of cutting hams from the rest they were done in 7 hrs at 190 & the rest took another 1/2 hr.
Yea it would have be easy to do that but the skin was pretty messed up from torching it. Even with just wiping off it was tearing & didn't want to loose any more than had to. Will just have to do without eating some skin.
Change of plans already. Taking to IT of 190-195 in shoulder.
Got a 15# suckling given to me from local pig farmer that had to be put down. Looks a little dirty from burning off hair but didn’t want to wash & be all wet so just wiped with damp rag. Not going to eat skin anyhow. Decided to use what was on hand so mixed jack daniels bbq with apple juice...
What I have done in this situation is crumble it & make gravy. Then put that on top of french-fries, rice or toast. Leaning towards SOS. I also hate to throw food out unless unsafe to eat.
Leftover PP is frozen to be reheated for sandwiches later but chicken or turkey is used to make stock for soups & gravy. Takes a few smokes to get enough stock for some of the recipes.
Welcome to SMF. I believe JLeonard & normanaj got you covered on this. Only thing to add is in my gasser I use 1 big chunk instead of multiple small chunks. 1 won't catch on fire but 2 or more might.
Just my .02
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