As you may know from reading some of my other Meat Mentor blog posts, I have a hard time pass on loss-leader pork shoulder butt sales. A large supermarket chain ran butts in their local ad here this week for 99 cents a pound; making me motivated to try and produce something new. Our freezer… Read More »
Two other titles considered for this post were Fowl Goetta and Clucked-Up Goetta. I try to be funny sometimes. 99 cents per pound for skin-on, bone-in chicken thighs seemed like a low enough price for making frugal shredded meat Goetta. Pictured here, the skin is pulled off and boning is about to begin. Product loss… Read More »
Our household’s High Quality Goetta supply was once again running short; so I went looking for more $1 a pound bone-in pork shoulder butts to make freezer stored Goetta with. The best deal found was $1.49 per pound for closely trimmed, boneless butts. However, that deal was one of the previous week’s sale items at… Read More »
A local supermarket chain offered bone-in pork shoulder butt roasts for a dollar a pound last week. The Supply & Demand Gods had once again smiled upon us. After boning, useable pork cost came out to $1.07 per pound. But, bargain priced meat should not be the only reason for undertaking home further processing. In… Read More »
This post is intended for hobby farmers who raise a few hogs to sell as Youth Fair projects and/or as pork processed at small local meat plants. While hobby farmer’s relatively young market-hogs may well be hard to sell as freezer pork, the occasional few culled breeding sows are normally hard to get a decent… Read More »