Taste of Hog Meat

Paquebot · #21 09/23/12, 10:23 PM

Go back and read Big Dave's original post. There was a butchered hog which caused his olfactory system to revolt. That was possible from a single tainted hog. But then he purchased some pork sausage and the system revolted again and recognized it as being the same smell. That turned the tables around and points a finger at Dave instead of the meat. I used to love the smell of Brussels sprouts cooking. Can't stand it now!

Martin

Big Dave · #22 09/24/12, 08:17 AM

Thanks for all the knowledge. I now have several free pounds of this meat. Any takers? Just pm me come and get it. FREE

geo in mi · #23 09/24/12, 10:28 AM

Could just as well be an old sow.....

geo

Terrabus · #24 09/24/12, 03:17 PM

I had never heard of boar taint before. However, I did know that male hogs had a wonderful porky taste to the meat, more so than female hogs. I was told this was because of the testosterone in the system.

Just to make sure I understand, if the Animal Control locally finds another old lady with a 500 lbs pig in her garage, I do or don't want to eat it? What if I castrate it and let it live for another few months? Would that get the hormone out of its system enough?

geo in mi · #25 09/24/12, 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Terrabus

I had never heard of boar taint before. However, I did know that male hogs had a wonderful porky taste to the meat, more so than female hogs. I was told this was because of the testosterone in the system.

Just to make sure I understand, if the Animal Control locally finds another old lady with a 500 lbs pig in her garage, I do or don't want to eat it? What if I castrate it and let it live for another few months? Would that get the hormone out of its system enough?

Uhhhh, it will take you and quite a few wranglers to do the deed, if it does indeed take away the taint, and if the fully grown hog doesn't bleed to death....

geo

jwal10 · #26 09/24/12, 04:36 PM

How it is killed has a lot to do with taste. If the hog was run before death it affects the meat. Cool, calm and then dead, is best. Penning, loading, hauling, unloading, unknown place, penned up, agitated and getting hot will affect any hog, old, young, male, female....James

Oldcountryboy · #27 09/24/12, 09:28 PM

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Originally Posted by julieq

Years ago we lovingly raised three large hogs on our ranch in Alabama and couldn't wait to get the meat. We shared some with the rest of our family, including my father, who said "This tastes like wild boar!" It was SO bad, I gave it away because I couldn't stand the stench of cooking it.

Much later we found out the butcher we used and trusted was taking wild boar and switching it out for the farm fed hog meat before packaging it and giving it back to his customers! We never raised a hog again, nor did we ever use that butcher again.

Know your butcher well. I've heard of them switching out young hogs with old ones and then selling yours to a nearby grocier store.

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Originally Posted by big rockpile

We always Butcher our own Meat even Wild Boars with no Bad Taste.But we took a Deer for our Son to be Ground and they mixed it with someone elses,tasted BAD!

Just Fine Eating

Taste of Hog Meat - Homesteading Questions

I've only had one deer in my lifetime taken to a butcher. When they unloaded it, they threw it on a great big pile of deer that other people had already brought in. I thought right then, "I hope they know which one is mine".

When I got it back, I couldn't eat any of it. It smelled and tasted like it was spoiled. No matter how I soaked it, or cooked it, it was just nasty tasting. To this day, I have never taken another deer to a butcher. I make sure I do all my own deer, even if I don't have time and have to throw the whole thing in the freezer. In which I've done before! About two weeks later, I finally took it out and butchered it.

big rockpile

Oldcountryboy · #28 09/24/12, 09:31 PM

Sorry, that bottom part under Big Rock's picture is my words, not BR. I don't know how I done that!

Big Dave · #29 09/24/12, 09:40 PM

No Takers huh? Free Meat.

oregon woodsmok · #30 09/25/12, 12:19 PM

I'd take it and make dog food out of it. But you are too far away.

I've cooked boar taint meat into Mexican recipes and the chili and cumin seems to mask the bad smell. You might try that before you throw it out.

I've had boar meat that stank really bad, but the actual flavor wasn't so bad, if you could hold your nose long enough.

Big Dave · #31 09/25/12, 07:04 PM

I ain't got a dog. But that is a good Idea. Hey I do some one with a GPyranese. Still if some one wants it come and get it Free meat. A ham, bacon and several lbs of susage. If you have a dog it may be worth your while.

wogglebug · #32 09/26/12, 01:48 AM

If you haven't already, it may be worth tasting each part (ham, bacon, sausage) seperately. If your butcher has been criminally mixin'n'matching, they may not all be from the same boar.

no1butcherman · #33 09/26/12, 06:35 AM

Did anyone notice the areas of the country that have boar taint? Mostly southern states and I think it has to with the heat and longer hot summers and what they eat. A sow in heat is just as bad as a boar here in Louisiana and stink just about as bad as a marsh coon.

**highlands** · #34 09/26/12, 07:13 AM

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Originally Posted by texican

I really dislike getting store bought pork with taint... knowing that (last time I checked) old retired boars went for pennies per pound...

The good news is that boar taint is actually unusual. Most boars don't have it. Most lines of pigs don't have it. Pasturing, feeding and managing all help reduce and eliminate it.

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Originally Posted by Big Dave

I ain't got a dog.

Well thare's yer problem! Man without a dog... why that's like... like... Just shocking.