Xmas hams piccys.

[rayke1938]

Just finished doing our xmas hams and chooks.

Here are a few photos of the process. Thanks to Gazza for the sawdust .

First job is to pump the pork with the cure.

These are the legs. We buy a whole pig and get the legs boned and netted, keep the pork fillet,turn the belly flaps into bacon, roasting foreleg and the rest into chops. $360 for the pig. 60kg weight.

Pumping.

Pumped ready to soak in brine vat for 3 days.

Pumped chook. We clean,pluck and net the chooks ourselves. ( Mate has chooks)

Smoke generator ready to be fired up. I heat the sawdust up on the gas ring untill it ignites and then leave it smolder.

enerator hooked up to smoker. I am using a short flue pipe this time as I am hot smoking. When I cold smoke I use a 12ft flue and do not turn on the heating element in the smoker.

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The smoker.

Loaded up with 8 chooks.

Finished chooks hung up to drain. If you dont drain them the internal cavity sometimes fills up with jelly.

Completed ham. Had a problem with this one. We didnt check the netting before we pumped it and the butcher hadnt knotted the netting at one end so I had to tie a sling around the ham to supprt it in the smoker.

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Next job is to slice up the bacon rashers and the ham .

Cheers

Ray

[fishingnut]

that is a dedicated set up and I can tell you first hand those chooks smelt bloody good!

[RichH]

amazing setup , be unreal xmas tucker at your place Ray :woohoo:

[Keen-as-fisho]

yummo enjoy

[Davo_Dinkum]

u can tell a man who luv's his food .

[dassa]

In the Immortal words of Homer J Simpson MMMMMM bacon,Ham,bacon,ham and chicken MMMMMMMMMMMMM

cheers dassa

[AZZA]

looks great now I feel slack as I only went to the shop and bought mine already done I bet it pales in taste to a self done one. Oh and by the way I can see your hose hangin out of your shorts in pic 3 show off

[Yoodles82]

Geez Ray, you're keen aren't ya!!

That was the last bloody thing i wanted to see right now...I just got home from a full day of packing xmas ham orders in Tiaro!!

Nice setup you've got going!

Nat.

PS. Petrie park is a no go at the moment...the river is very very low - never seen it this bad before!

[Brian D]

I don't believe you actually gave up precious fishing time to play with a pig and a couple of chooks.

Having said that if you have any leftovers let me know. :laugh:

Merry Christmas to you, great job.