Bag and Secure Meats for Curing

just pack it full so here's a little detail of what we're gonna do with the paper bags we're gonna put one bag over one end of the ham or shoulder and the other bag over the other end and that's basically it this is just another barrier it also allows the ham to breathe while it's in the smokehouse hanging and it keeps the bugs out try not to tear your bag pretty much you carry your bag you're doing away with the reason you got it in the first place let's sew like a sock like a glove we're gonna tie string around the hock and then we'll wrap the ham think our stray told you it was windy out here he really can't use too much string in this situation if you just wrap it up nice and tight tie your string off nice and tight and now we're gonna drop it into our cotton bags okay and these are cotton bags that we had made at a local sewing shop but you can just use pillowcases these are a little bit too big to fit in a pillowcase okay so this is the bag that we're going to use and we're gonna stuff the ham in there and we're gonna put the ham hock and down so in other words the small end where the foot was is gonna go down and we'll tie the bag up top and we'll hang it in the okay we'll hang it in the smokehouse precious cargo right here guys okay right here hock in the corner yep you work that hot down into a corner hard work guys just worth it what we do is twist their bag up nice and tight and then we'll tie some string around it yeah you need some pretty tough string okay you want to use some nice nylon string if you have it tie it around or you can use some like commercial grade paracord if you want to use that something really really tough because you sure don't want all this work to go to waste give her string it good test closer good thing we test you you can't make that stuff up tested approved case you