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I give the first chunk of any meat to my Chessie. If he refuses to eat it, I take it all out for bear bait!!!

All of my equipment(all that is stainless) goes through the dishwasher, and is dipped in a sodium metabisulphite solution and put away. When it comes back into use, it is run under hot water with an antibacterial soap, rinsed in scalding water, and again dipped in a sodium metabisulphite solution an...

Just wondering.. Has anyone here tried the water stuffers I have seen on some sausage supply sites? "The Dakotah" comes to mind. Love any input ;D I have a 15 lb. water powered stuffer made by the Hutterites. Check out a colony in your area for availability. They will probably make to your specs fo...

Looks like another fine piece of Saskatchewan ingenuity!!!!!

Two thumbs up to the "wagon master". CW has done a more than an exemplary job on this forum, and anyone who questions his character is probably more than morally & mentally destitute!! " People who live in glass houses should dress in the basement."-old proverb.

Not to knock anyone, but up here in the "Great White North", we call that stuff "BACK BACON". Canadian bacon is the same as any bacon, the only difference is that the hogs are finished with a combination of mostly barley, some wheat, & oats rather than corn. Crawl all over me for the comment, but th...

Ross, you are the prototypical American. There are other nationalities on this forum other than yourself!!! You have turned this forum from a source of information to a social site, and as a result I seldom visit or post to this site any more. Stick with facebook.

I have the opportunity to get some "cut offs" from a 42" pipeline(north leg of Keystone) that is going nearby. A cutoff is defined as under 10 ft.(3.3 meters). My cost is the fuel to pick it up, about 4 miles away, with a loader ready to load me. I intend to build a 6'(2.75m) hog roaster, with a rot...

"BRRRRRRRRRRRR! It's getting down into the low 50's tonight." We woke up this morning to -30C temps with a wind chill factor that took the temp to -35C. I salted a pork belly with added Canadian maple syrup to be smoked Friday. My good wife has a duck in the oven, to be accompanied by a friend's Alb...

From the "Great White North" of Alberta, the land of oil, the world's best beef & pork, a very Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to all of you, whever you might happen to be in the world!!!

I grew up on homemade vodka in Saskatchewan. One of my cousins paid for my maternal grandfather's farm by "brewing". He was known far & wide for the quality of his product. I had the opportunity to partake of some "Saskatchewan vodka" last winter. The maker gave me a 2 qt. jar of it, and it scared t...

We debone the hind quarters, cut into meal portions, vac seal it, and freeze it. The front quarters get the grinder, vac'd and frozen in 10lb blocks However I do keep some unfrozen to make sausage with that day. The remainder I freeze in 10lb packages(vac'd) to be made up into sausage later.

We shot 5 bull moose among 8 guys, and 3 bull elk between 4 guys. A pile of work, but the proceeds of that work are well worthwhile. Lots of meat for sausage and curing. It is now deer season, and thus far I have passed up about 8 big Alberta whitetails(140-180) for a bigger one!!!! If I knock down ...

It is truly fantastic to live in Alberta, the land of oil and money. We have only winter blizzards, -40 temps. None of these coastal storms to give a rat's patoot about!!! My nephew lives in DC, so he may have a very different problem than what I could ever perceive. Good luck to those of you on the...