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Learn Appalachian Hog Butchering: How to scald the hog and remove the hair

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What happens here

Once the hog is removed from the scalding pot, the hair is immediately scraped off using specialized hog scraping tools. These tools are designed to efficiently remove both the hair and the outermost layer of skin without cooking the meat underneath. The process begins with the feet and head, as these areas are typically tougher and require more attention. Multiple individuals work simultaneously, scraping different sections of the hog. To aid in hair removal and prevent the skin from cooling too quickly, buckets of hot scalding water are periodically doused over the hog during the scraping process.

Goal: After scalding, specialized hog scraping tools are used to quickly remove hair and the outer layer of skin. Tougher areas like the feet and head are addressed first, and scalding water is occasionally poured over the hog to maintain heat.

Tools and materials

  • Buckets
  • Hog Scraping Tools

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so he's in the scaler for somewhere around a minute to a minute and a half these are hog scraping tools Guys these are the tools we're going to use to take the hair off the hog we're not just pulling the hair off it's taking the top layer of skin off also [Music] okay we back up a little bit when we're all in the there taking free samples already y I hope the rest of tastes better now should be bottom guy ears we're hitting with another bucket the so we're giving it about a second dip here just so we can get all those little tight nooks and crannies in the head right there no piece of the hog goes to waste here so the head will be used for some something again we probably won't go into all that detail but I wanted to show you how we scald and scrape the hog so again water temperature water temperature water temperature very very important and getting the lime in there so that the hair releases there any extra hairs we can go in by hand and pull them and if if all else fails we can go with a little burner and burn them off a little tight that's my dad by the way he's been doing this since before I was born learned it from my great grandpa right

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