Cleaning BBQ pig

[TXbowman]

I know its a lot to ask but could one of you guys post up a youtube link or pics here of yourself taking one of those BBQ pigs from the ground to ready to put on the pit? That would be great for a novice butcher like me. I have only ever hunted deer and I always just dressed them and took them off to the processor. Thanks

[RickBarbee]

Google gutless method. Works great.

Rick

P.S Unless you intend to BBQ it whole.

[Bisch]

Google gutless method. Works great.

Rick

P.S Unless you intend to BBQ it whole.

Not for a BBQ pig!

All I do is gut the pig and then take a saw and split it into 2 halves right down the middle of the backbone!

Bisch

[gatorgar]

How do you want to cook it, whole, steak, smoked ribs, ham?

I pretty much do what Bisch does, however I skin it before sawing it in half, lol hi Jerry

[TxAgHntr]

I gut it, skin in, cut head off and bbq in the prone position!

[Bisch]

Not for a BBQ pig!

All I do is gut the pig and then take a saw and split it into 2 halves right down the middle of the backbone!

Bisch

How do you want to cook it, whole, steak, smoked ribs, ham?

I pretty much do what Bisch does, however I skin it before sawing it in half, lol hi Jerry

Whoops, he is a newbie! Yeah, I gut, skin, and cut in half down the backbone!

Bisch

[mmcan]

What if you want to cook it with the skin on? How do you get all that nasty hair off? Burn it? Saw that on Meateater. Then they scraped it off. Does not look fun or easy, but the bbq pit looks like an awesome time!

[Bisch]

What if you want to cook it with the skin on? How do you get all that nasty hair off? Burn it? Saw that on Meateater. Then they scraped it off. Does not look fun or easy, but the bbq pit looks like an awesome time!

Believe me, they taste plenty good with out the skin! I could not imagine trying to do it with the skin on!

Bisch

[jetlag887]

I have some pig hunters that come here from Kansas and they like to cook their pigs with the hair on. They hang them up and use a pare burner to singe the hair off then spray them down with a pressure washer, then gut them.
Makes for a good clean pig.

[gatorgar]

Best way to remove the hair is by scalding it off. Boil you a butt load of water and dunk burlap sacks in the boiling water (an old blanket will work). Then you place the steaming sack on the hog for a few seconds. Remove sack and scrape hair off. I have used everything from the back edge of my knife to a small garden hoe. It takes time and you will have to repeat the sack part a few times before you are done.
Now a days, I find it easier to just skin it. Skin is not worth the extra effort, imo

[Greywolf in Hawaii]

dig a hole, start some wood, let it coal up real nice, throw in some rocks, put down some palm leaves lay the pig on the leaves, cover with wet burlap cover with palm leaves more burlap, Palm leaves, then put some plastic over the whole thing then cover it with dirt. 10 hours later uncover slowly and pull the meat and make plenty of mashed taters, gravy and sides you like.

Good stuff !!

How you get the women to dance bare chested is your thing. ***wink***

[Bisch]

dig a hole, start some wood, let it coal up real nice, throw in some rocks, put down some palm leaves lay the pig on the leaves, cover with wet burlap cover with palm leaves more burlap, Palm leaves, then put some plastic over the whole thing then cover it with dirt. 10 hours later uncover slowly and pull the meat and make plenty of mashed taters, gravy and sides you like.

Good stuff !!

How you get the women to dance bare chested is your thing. ***wink***

Mark, I think you forgot that most of us DO NOT live in Hawaii! We don't have palm leaves on this side of the pond!

Sounds really good though!

Bisch

[Maui-diver]

Mark, I think you forgot that most of us DO NOT live in Hawaii! We don't have palm leaves on this side of the pond!

Sounds really good though!

Bisch

Bisch, we can get banana leaves from any asian market in town. Would be great to find an actual banana tree and use the stalk and smash it all up as layers. This helps moisture and kicks the flavor up a bit. I would be down to try an imu pit. Have done plenty times back home. Lots of work, but food turns out ONOlishes!!!

[trad"Doc"53]

To heck with the palm leaves, where do you find the dancing girl???

[J_Foster]

Back home in Alabama, we'd dig a hole and build a fire and place an old wash tub (not galvanized) on top of it, full of water. Once the water started to steam, we'd place the pigs in the tub for about 5 minutes. After removing the pig we'd use a wire brush, back of the butcher knife, etc to remove all of the hair that we could. Once that was done, we'd go over it with the pear burner to clean up any spots left behind. Finally, we'd gut it, clean it up, and on the pit it went. We also used a similar process when BBQ'ing turkeys, chickens, and goats, from time to time. It's alot of work but the results were typically excellent.