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Dice the Pork Fat into Cubes

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How to make Lard..simple, easy and fun!

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What happens here

To make the fat easier to cut, refrigerate it to harden it slightly. Using a large butcher knife and a smaller paring knife, begin cutting the large pieces of leaf fat into 2-inch by 2-inch cubes. As you cut, inspect each piece for any small specs, such as hog hair or other impurities, and trim them off. Place any discarded pieces (scraps) into a separate 'scrap bowl'. The goal is to render only pure white fat for the highest quality lard. He recommends using sharp knives to prevent accidents and make the cutting process more efficient. Continue cutting until all the fat is diced.

Goal: Prepare the pork fat by dicing it into small, uniform cubes and removing impurities.

Tools and materials

  • Cutting Board — Providing a stable and safe surface for cutting
  • Large Butcher Knife Dexter — Cutting larger sections of fat
  • Large Metal Pan — Collecting the diced fat (he demonstrates transferring from this pan to the cooking pot)
  • Paring Knife Dexter — Trimming smaller pieces and membranes
  • Scrap Bowl — Collecting discarded fat pieces and impurities
  • Pork Leaf Fat N/A — Being diced for rendering

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down so we'll talk a little bit about how you cook them down after i cut them up this can be a bit of an overwhelming task for some people so that's why we have the big butcher knife guys and the butcher's worst enemy is a dull knife so make sure your knives are nice and sharp okay we want to cut this into manageable pieces about that size right there so i'm going to start first start and the leaf fat is very very soft okay what you want to do is you want to put this in the refrigerator and let this get a little bit hard so if it's at room temperature you're going to have troubles all right we're going to take this leaf fat and we're going to cut it into sections that are more manageable for us to use now you'll notice while i'm cutting this up i'm going to speed up the footage here in a minute but you're going to notice that there's some little specks on here there might be a hog hair on here or something like that so you want to make sure that you get all of that stuff out of there and that's why you're cutting it up and dicing it up into little pieces guys if you don't have if you have a homestead and you don't have a pan like this you need some you need two or three of these i'll post links down the video description amazon links for some of those and i'll also post some to my favorite knives i use a lot of dexter brand knives they are absolutely fantastic so let's get rid of some of this and what we're going to do is we're going to cut it up into small pieces again about two inches by two inches and we're going to be putting them in this pot right here okay let's get busy cutting and we're cutting out we're also looking for any what i would call trash in there too so hair or anything like that i mean this was a hog this was an animal so this is a not meant to be gross or anything like that this is just life this is butchering this is uh this is living a country life and if you went to the grocery store and you bought pork chops and you didn't think it came from a pig then let me let me clue you in a little bit uh yeah it came from a pig that's about the size that you want okay you want to look for little pieces of meat and stuff like that too you don't want to put that in there and we want to have a scrap bowl right here is our scrap bowl we'll set it right here and any pieces that we don't want we'll discard them in the scrap bowl and they will go either in the trash or in the woods for the raccoons raccoons got to eat too let's get busy guys what…

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