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 »
Get that junk outta here! This pictured booklet does not have a publishing date on it, but it likely came out sometime in the late 1960’s. My Vocational High School Meat Processing instructor gave it to me in 1974. That’s my instructor’s, Frank J. Bussey’s signature in the top left corner. This pork promotion booklet… Read More »