Thread: What I did with "boary" pork

Hi guys,

We traded a 6 month old boar for a "giant" boar for the freezer, the pork stinks, and tastes like it smells. But being part Dutch, it will not go to waste, we don't have a dog, so that's that's no go and our cats are ungrateful little shits.

So i tried my hand at dry cured/aged meat, nothing to lose I guessed. I settled on spicy chorizo and that cured pork/ham stuff cut finely on platters.

I was picking up beef from the butcher and got him to give me some natural casings, I hand diced the stinky pork, we had some fatty slices that looked like belly, recipe said 20% fat to be added to lean meat so figured it would be fine. Added spices, left in fridge for a couple of days, pulled out and diced it again (a bit coarse first time round).

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I had a spare pork belly from a small porker that was getting a but old, so tried the platter ham stuff with that. I'll admit I had little idea how to make it, but I had bacon cure, and that's always a good start. Rolled the meat in bacon cure, vacuum packed it, left in the fridge for a week. After that pull it out and it's ready for drying.

Both the chorizo and belly got the same treatment, I bought cheap dry cure bags, but next time I would get better ones. Anyway, in the dry cure bags and then into the fridge until 40% weight reduction.




Mrs Larry was pretty weary of it, but it got the better of her and she liked it.

Chorizo, tasty, and less boary, but still a bit boary, ill call it a success.

Thanks Lars

As far as I'm aware you can. Ivomectin is what they use I think there are a couple of different ones for humans. Common name is t spiralis or pork worm

@Larrygoat A lot of dogs won't eat wild pork none of my farm dogs do. Mutton, goat, venison that's the stuff! A little bit of horse is quite popular too.
I love the look of your chorizo and what are dry cure bags?

Originally Posted by Marty Henry

@Larrygoat A lot of dogs won't eat wild pork none of my farm dogs do. Mutton, goat, venison that's the stuff! A little bit of horse is quite popular too.
I love the look of your chorizo and what are dry cure bags?

A "hunt club" I was a part of used to feed the hounds horses alot of time, and bulls with broken legs/dicks, Harriers aren't fussy apparently. To be fair I hadn't used dry cure bags before, they are like vacuum pack bags, so in the vacuum pack machine they suck up and seal, but they let moisture out slowly. I have hung meat naked in the fridge and the outside gets hard as boiled leather in days, the bags allow more even drying throughout the meat. I also did some beef ribs, rolled in rosemary, a bit of pepper, in a dry cure bag for 10 days. When opened it didn't smell like much, and surface was a bit leathery, cooked it up in the oven, top notch.

Dry cure/age meat, definitely worth a play with, I believe down south you could get away with a "meat safe", but its to hot and humid up here.