Introduction and Fat Overview

hey folks its Josh Danny Ridge farmer welcome to the farm vlog today so we killed a pig last weekend on the farm and we have the skin and we have the fat and this is the fat the visceral fat the fat that's on the inside of the Hogs belly that we cooked down and we make lard so we make lard with the fat and we're going to show you how we render that and we take the skin and we make pork cracklings for putting in cornbread which is basically little pieces of skin or we can make pork skins or we can make some awesome treats for our dog come on with us today we're gonna teach you how to render lard and make pork cracklins it'll be a good time all right [Music] so we're here in the cutting board and what we're doing is taking these large pieces of what we call leaf fat and we will cut them into blocks about this big put it in the pot and boil it down until it renders lard yeah mate yeah yeah the next step here is slicing this up into cubes and we're gonna put it we've already got started over here we're gonna put it in the pot with the already boiling fat and then we'll pour out the lard into mason jars and we'll have it for our family to eat on it's gonna be awesome so we'll take the skin and if we want to make pork cracklings which is something that you might have to google it's just a little piece of skin that we leave that we cook we basically deep-fry it and then you put it in corn bread is absolutely delicious or you can use it as a snack we can eat this like pig skins like you have in the grocery store you buy or you can cut this up make cracklins or we can make delicious dog treats this stuff is really really thick and makes great dog treats and it'd almost be a shame to waste this on dog treats so we're probably gonna make it for our own consumption so let's get busy cutting so here's our piece of skin