Misfitmorgan's Journal - That Summer Dust

[CntryBoy777]

At the packing plant they left the skin on the bacon until it was smoked and was being packaged....then, if ya deep fry the skin ya can have a favorite around here...pig skins!!... be careful tho, the skin expands very quickly. I prefer the jowl bacon over any, it is the best....imo....sounds like a bunch of work ahead, but will be good in the freezer....and chilled meat does cut, slice much better than fresh.
Congrats on the lamb!!!..........

 

[Baymule]

I have cut up feral hogs for sausage but never a domestic hog until this past summer. It was a learning experience. We skinned the hogs. I made bacon, I put it in a zip lock bag in the refrigerator to cure it.

 

[Bruce]

Plus it geting dark so early and not being sunny much.

Funny you should say it that way, at this time. DW mentioned just the other day that she was finally seeing light on both ends of her commute.

So anyone who has made bacon....do you leave your skin on or take it off, if so before or after smoking? Not sure if we will leave ours on or take it off, if we take it off it will be after the smoke.

Wouldn't smoking it first then taking off the skin mean less smoke flavor in the final product?

 

[misfitmorgan]

At the packing plant they left the skin on the bacon until it was smoked and was being packaged....then, if ya deep fry the skin ya can have a favorite around here...pig skins!!... be careful tho, the skin expands very quickly. I prefer the jowl bacon over any, it is the best....imo....sounds like a bunch of work ahead, but will be good in the freezer....and chilled meat does cut, slice much better than fresh.
Congrats on the lamb!!!..........

I agree completely, chilled meat gives you pretty cuts, warm meat gives you "i think thats a ???" cuts.

We are not much for pig skins here, i never liked the flavor much but i've also never had them made with cured and smoked skin i dont think.

DH said we cant make jowl bacon, Eva apparently has like no jowls. That's what he is telling me anyhow, we shall inspect further. We might also make shoulder bacon and bangers. Basically the entire pig is going to be made into processed stuff. The thinking is it isi our last pig and we have a few hundred pounds of fresh pork, we wont be slaughtering again until fall as far as we know and raw pork cuts are way cheaper then bacon/ham/sausage.

I have cut up feral hogs for sausage but never a domestic hog until this past summer. It was a learning experience. We skinned the hogs. I made bacon, I put it in a zip lock bag in the refrigerator to cure it.

Good to know Bay. I have never done a feral hog, we dont have them in our area. I will try to do pictures but you know my history with pictures.

Funny you should say it that way, at this time. DW mentioned just the other day that she was finally seeing light on both ends of her commute.


Wouldn't smoking it first then taking off the skin mean less smoke flavor in the final product?

I still only have light on one end of my commute, i leave my house at 5:10am and arrive at work at 5:50am, leave work at 3:05pm and get home at around 3:45pm. It has been getting to complete dark here around 6:30pm.

Perhaps marginally less smoke flavor. I dont think it would be a noticable amount less. This bacon is going to be dry cure bacon so it will be very different from store bacon in many ways.

 

[Bruce]

DW leaves around 6:45/6:50, gets to work around 7:30/7:40. Sunrise is at 7:13. Sunset is basically 5 PM so dark WAY before your local dark. Makes sense since we are in the same time zone. But the change from a month or so back is obvious. I was putting the chickens up at 3 PM. Now it is 4 on a cloudy day, later if sunny (whatever that is).

 

[Mike CHS]

Our butcher makes some jowl bacon that is so totally diving I can't describe it.

 

[misfitmorgan]

Our butcher makes some jowl bacon that is so totally diving I can't describe it.

Jowl bacon is some delicious stuff for sure!!

DW leaves around 6:45/6:50, gets to work around 7:30/7:40. Sunrise is at 7:13. Sunset is basically 5 PM so dark WAY before your local dark. Makes sense since we are in the same time zone. But the change from a month or so back is obvious. I was putting the chickens up at 3 PM. Now it is 4 on a cloudy day, later if sunny (whatever that is).

Official Sunrise today is 7:54am
Official Sunset today is 5:40pm
So here it starts getting light around 7am and it is complete dark by about 6:20-6:30pm. Wonder why your daylight is different?

So I've been working on growing mushrooms, after several mistakes and trial/error. We finally have our first mushrooms growing. Here is a picture

The wet look is because i had just misted it, normally things look more dry if left alone. Those mushrooms are grey dove oysters and they are TINY atm but grow fast. The largest "heads" in the picture are smaller then a pencil eraser still. This is what they will look like when ready to harvest.
http://raleighcityfarm.org/rob-jones-2/

This is who i actually ordered from
http://www.2funguys.com/store/greydove.html
They have some good pictures.

Next on the agenda is pink oysters, right after i clone the grey dove.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Longitude and latitude with the curvature of the earth explains the differences....here, the sun rises at 6:59am and sets at 5:28pm that is CST with Bruce living on the eastern edge of the time zone and you living closer to the western edge the times are different even tho ya are in the same zone....

 

[Bruce]

Right you are @CntryBoy777! It is approximately 500 miles as the crow flies from @misfitmorgan to me so the sun gets here 500 miles earlier Of course that means she might have seen the partial lunar eclipse. The moon was setting and behind the trees on the hill behind our house when the eclipse started.

 

[misfitmorgan]

Longitude and latitude with the curvature of the earth explains the differences....here, the sun rises at 6:59am and sets at 5:28pm that is CST with Bruce living on the eastern edge of the time zone and you living closer to the western edge the times are different even tho ya are in the same zone....

Very true, i had not taken that into account.
When i lived in a valley in Ohio it got light there almost an hour after sunup because the "moutains" blocked the sun from reaching the valley.

Right you are @CntryBoy777! It is approximately 500 miles as the crow flies from @misfitmorgan to me so the sun gets here 500 miles earlier Of course that means she might have seen the partial lunar eclipse. The moon was setting and behind the trees on the hill behind our house when the eclipse started.

I didn't see anything, the little map on the weather site said we would have poor veiwing...they were right. We had a wall of clouds.

So that picture of the mushrooms was yesterday morning before i left for work. Here is one exactly 24hrs later.

Yes i know the camera angle was bad....and i know what two of those look like.....DH even commented when i showed him the picture