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That does look great! I would try them even knowing they are brains!!
Side note: Like you said about habits and attitudes, my Grandmother lived through the depression, her oldest son fought in WWII. One of her grandsons owned a hog farm, and for a while slaughtered and butchered their own...
Dave, in this and another build thread you mention the exhaust above the CC. I just want to be clear. If I come out of the CC with the exhaust at cook grate height then 90* up I will have to make the stack the recommended height per Feldons plus the distance from grate to top of CC correct??
Break press operator in a bending and rolling shop. We don't do a lot of true fab work, we just bend and roll for others. Also a good place to get smoker parts cheap!
http://www.smokingmeatforums.com/t/135262/newbie-with-backstrap
OK smker, if you read this thread then you will find that soaking is not needed. Proper handling after the kill is. Many things can be done ,if you wish, to add flavor and seasoning. That part is all a matter of what YOU like...
In all the ones I cleaned the belly was lean. One thing you also have to remember is that farm raised animals are kept in pens of some fashion,and don't have to move very much. That is why the fat gets marbled into the lean muscle tissue, deer and other wild animals are constantly on the move...
Like I said "everything but the grunt!". I had an older cousin that had a hog farm at one time. When it was hog killing time my grandmother would scramble the brains with eggs.Then again she was depression era and wasted nothing either. For me adding fat would depend on what I would be using it...
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