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[Quadman750]

There are a lot of good cuts on a pig, very little goes to waste. From the pigs feet to the jowls or pigs ears for the dogs.what is your favourite cuts or recipes, I would like to hear some odd ones,my mother loved head cheese made from the pork hocks.

[Free Mr. Tony]

I use the skin in certain sausage recipes. I can get as much as I want at a Latin market for next to nothing. I boil it down for quite awhile until tender, then cool before using.

[pz]

I too like the skin, and even use the skin trimmed from cured hams in bean cooks, especially white beans. Hunks of skin are thrown in with beans in the pressure cooker. The skin helps season the beans, and afterward chopped fine and added back into the pot.  The bits are soft, gelatinous, and gives the beans great flavor and texture.  Then potatoes are added to make some serious German style winter comfort food.

[mowin]

My parents used everything but the squeal.

I can remember luring the pig to a area where there was a rope and pully. When the hind feet were in the noose my uncle's would pull and lift the pig off the ground by the hind legs. Dad would then stick the pig and mom would catch the blood in a pail for blood sausage.

[Bentley]

Belly, then Shoulder, then Hock...Any odd ones you say, well, I had real Boudin Balls in Louisiana, in Cajon country once.  I mean this was pig liver, none of this city slicker pork butt boudin...one bite and I had to pawn them off on my mom and go to the fried chicken.

[Quadman750]

I’m not a liver fan either.

[Bobitis]

I’m not a liver fan either.

Same here... I can tolerate chicken livers because they're small. By the time you bread and fry them, and add a dipping sauce, there's not much livery left.

My older brother will eat liver and onions whenever he can. My younger will turn his nose up at any/every offal idea. I don't care for liver, but I'll take heart or tongue in a second.

I  just have a hard time justifying eating an organ that was made to filter out toxins. However, I'll eat sweetbreads till the cows come home. 

Is that weird?

[hughver]

Yes!

[Kristin Meredith]

Bobitis, do you eat shellfish?

[Bobitis]

Bobitis, do you eat shellfish?

As much as I can afford. So that's very little in the last 20 years. I do get yer point however.
 

[Quadman750]

I have never cooked a whole pig, would like to try a small one on the Memphis one day but not sure if one would fit.

[mowin]

I have never cooked a whole pig, would like to try a small one on the Memphis one day but not sure if one would fit.

Not on a pellet grill, but I enjoyed this cook.
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[Quadman750]

I don’t think that  would fit in mine

[urnmor]

has anyone cooked one on a MAK 2 star or a big green egg?  if so how big was it?  I want to do one.

[Bentley]

You all would probably have to do a Suckling Pig on those units.

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