Project Introduction and Equipment Overview
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Live off the Land! How to kill and process a small hog for smoking (graphic)
What happens here
The video introduces the project's goal: to process a pig for smoking. The hosts discuss the various tools and equipment that will be used throughout the process, including a rifle for dispatch, a specialized Outdoor Edge knife for butchering, a scalding pot with a candy thermometer, traditional pig scrapers, and a Pit Barrel Cooker Co. drum smoker. They emphasize the overall process of shooting, sticking, bleeding, scalding, gutting, and smoking.
Goal: Understand the full pig processing workflow and identify necessary equipment.
Tools and materials
- 22 Caliber Rifle Smith & Wesson — Humanely dispatching the pig with a headshot
- Candy Thermometer Acurite — Accurately monitoring the scalding water temperature
- Outdoor Edge Knife Outdoor Edge
- Pig Scrapers Antique/Unknown — Removing the hair from the pig's skin after scalding
- Pit Barrel Cooker Pit Barrel Cooker Co — Smoking the processed pork cuts
- Rebar — Holding hooks from which meat is hung inside the smoker
- Scalding Pot — Heating water to the precise temperature required for scalding the pig to loosen its hair