Cleaning a Pig

[TXLNGHRN]

How do you remove the hair from a pig before you cook it?

[CJATE]

assuming you mean wild, i skin it. but you can use a weed burner and hot water.

truth is, i don't gut them any more, i just take hams and shoulders and back straps. and I don't do it this time of year, unless i have ice with me.

there is a good write up on the gutless filed dress on on of the hog forms i read. I like it so much, is how i clean doe's now. there is just not enough meat inside, so i don't open them up any more.

[OldUsedParts]

Scalding it in hot water and then scraping is the way I've seen it done but I would think that unless you are wanting the "cracklins" then I would just skin it - - - I've seen them roasted with and without the skin. On wild hogs we always used a box cutter to cut long parallel strips down the carcass and then pulled the hide off with a pair of pliers, one strip at a time.

As CJATE mentioned, leaving the guts inside and skinning and quartering everything off is a darned good way - - - - that's the way we do all our Deer that we harvest.

If it's possible, please take some pics as you do this, especially if you find another method that works good for you.

[TXLNGHRN]

I was thinking about buying a domestic from the meat market.

[OldUsedParts]

I was thinking about buying a domestic from the meat market.

I would think that a good market or processing plant would do that for you, if you asked.

[CJATE]

my butcher can get them for not much more the a farmer. work is all done.

[TXLNGHRN]

Who's your butcher? I just called longhorn and they wanted $3.49 a lb.

[CJATE]

local guy in Waco, i have no relation.

what do you pay on the hoof, knowing you will gut 40% or more of it's weight.

I did not do the math, but last time i looked into it, i decided it was not worth my effort to clean it, but I only looked at piglets, price is way in favor of buying on the hoof, if you are doing a bigg'en