Paleo Party - The whole hog

['Roos]

Today I worked backup for a cooking class, breaking down a whole pig.

Bone saw and all, we broke it into ham, trotters, roasts, loins and ribs. Delicious. I was excited and thought the paleos here would be appreciative of the experience.

[Vegemighty]

I want to find a butcher around here and ask for an internship. It would be a useful skill to have. During hunting season, I could make major bank off that.

But I have not had luck finding any as of yet

[mpbstereo]

RIP Porky... That's all, folks!

[Oogiem]

Where did you find a butcher willing to let you take a pig carcass that had not been skinned out? Around here they always want to skin the pigs because no one is set up to do the scalding to clean the hair off a pig. What a waste of all that lovely crackling too....

['Roos]

There's a number of smaller pasture-raised farms around here - this one is from Greenwood Farms http://www.greenwoodfarms.com/ and was de-bristled but not skinned. Which was convenient, 'cause it arrived in the passenger seat of someone's coupe. A lot of the pork in this area isn't skinned - if I get pork belly for instance, it has the skin on still. I assume it is because people here like to make cracklins, but I had never thought it was extraordinary. Greenwood does a lot of resturant supply, and this was a split that one of our people bargained off her resturant, as the butchers have been on hold these last few weeks due to heat and she couldn't find a pig anywhere else.