Meat processing

Capin' Dan · 09-03-2006, 07:24 AM

I know been discussed tons but here is a little dirrerent twist.

Looking for information on Smoking and curing. I'm just feed up with the high prices it is taking to get my farm butchering done. I can go buy it cheaper than I can have it processsed.
So who do you use for hams and bacon and what do they normally charge for these services. The rest I'm doing myself.

Also have any of you ever done your own bacon and hams. I mean curing and smoking I'm an inch away from doing it myself 100%

GSD · 09-03-2006, 07:52 AM

"So who do you use for hams and bacon and what do they normally charge for these services?"

I paid 61 cents per pound curing fee this March. Hams, bacon, canadian bacon, ham hocks. This is at a butcher shop in Jefferson.
Last year it was 59 cents per pound...

Their whole-hog processing fee this year was .40 per pound, hanging wt. and last year was .38 per pound.

cwh · 09-03-2006, 08:04 AM

I watched "scrap Iron chef" on the food network a couple of weeks ago (give me a break, I don't get hunting shows!) where he made bacon. Good show... Alton Brown is the man. In any case, it's a little annoying in order to make it entertaining, but he does go through how to cure and smoke bacon, and there is a brine recipe in there. The "transcript" of the episode is here:

http://www.goodeatsfanpage.com/Seaso...Transcript.htm

I'll keep you updated if I happen to catch a show about curing Ham :smile:

puddles · 09-03-2006, 09:38 AM

just had my first ever hog done.took it to jacobsmulhens.47 cents a lb cut and wrapped and then 50 cents a lb to smoke bacon and hams.havent got the smoked back yet,but just finished some breakfast sausage and eggs.mighty fine tasting.

Capin' Dan · 09-03-2006, 05:49 PM

Yes I've been seeing 42 to 50 for cut and wrap and 50 to 100 for smoking. It just that after buying the pig feeding them out and then slaughtering cutting and wrapping I'm up to about $2.50 Plus per pound. I can do about 70% myself just the smoking that gets me I'm just a big chicken to try it.

ajfishfinder · 09-03-2006, 08:42 PM

Do a search for a place called "the sausage maker". They can sell you everything you need and I think a good book that will tell you what you need to know. Their prices are a bit higher than a local butcher supply place, but I believe you can get a book or instructions from them. If you need the supplies (cure/nitrate/ham spice) shoot me a pm and I can give you a couple of pdx supply places. If you have a smoker and some time, it is fun and rewarding to do this stuff yourself.

Leann Oletski · 09-05-2006, 08:36 PM

Just checked at my butcher $1.79 lb cut/wrapped/cured/smoked-I just tell them how big a hog I want (80-250 lbs)

CWH- AB is the man!! Have him set on my TIVO!

Broknt · 09-05-2006, 08:43 PM

im sorry but i dont know any where you can buy beef and pork for the price you can raise it yourself even with theprice of cut and wrap exspecially beef. i use to work for a lockers and to do your hams and bacons right it takes alot of practice and the right brine. i worked for the lockers for 6 years or so mainly on the kill truck but i did some inside work and curing hams and stuff isnt something you just perfect over night. i would bite the bullet and get some one else to do it.

thad

Troutinator · 09-06-2006, 10:58 AM

search on "voget meat"... they do an outstanding job. not sure of the current pricing but they have been doing custom processing for about 100 years... not quite but close!

Small Fry · 09-06-2006, 11:47 AM

Try Frontier customer cutting in Carlton. They do my hogs every year. 8 years now. Last year we paid .35 for cut and wrap and 50 per pound for cureing hams and bacon.

Elkhunter · 09-06-2006, 02:33 PM

So do they give you your own meat back?