yet another blog

Warning:
Dead animals involved. Weaker natures may find these photos inappropriate. (PETA too)

Upozornenie:
Nasledujúce zábery su nevhodne pre slabsie povahy, male deti a ochrancov zvierat.









few steps in pig-slaughtering

1st - choose a pig. We made it by the FIFO system...first in first out

but the pig wasn't very willing to get in. Help handed over.


cleaning the area


2nd - weight it. This one had 210kg...still prety calm here...


any last words? nope...ok


3rd - kill the pig...with as little stress as possible...a stressed pig doesn't taste that good


4th - cutting the artery and colleting the blood...very essential for many good meals...or atleast one


holding the back leg is very..very good idea. even if a pig is dead, it can kick you very hard...and you wouldn't like to be kicked by a dead animal, would you?




blood collected...sure they lost few drops of the live giving liquid


5th - if you don't kill your pig at place of portioning, you need to take it there as soon as possible


at this time it still weighed over 200kg...it was not that easy to put him up there in the car...


after a 20 min. ride, we arrived at the place of deconstruction. the pig's still there...surprisingly


it is a little dirty...I bet you wouldn't eat this meat...


6th - prepare a lot of hot...very hot...water and clean the pig


and by cleaning I mean it has to be really clean...shaved clean



the hot water is very heplfull at this point


some tools for the 6th step...



be carefull to not to cut the skin...it wouldn't look nice on bacon


a pedicure for pigs...not something you would like to try...



7th - hang the pig...I don't know what tendon is that, but any other couln't hold the full weight of the pigs body



still dirty..more cleaning on the way...


such as fire-shaving, washing and parching


8th - the last step from me..I don't know more details of pig-slaghtering, but simply..cut in in pieces


it does look like a zip


how many of you could put a hand in the dead pig?


bowels birth :)


cutting out the..oh well..the anus


taking a photo...these phones have pretty good cameras these days..


cutting the lungs and other stuff...wonder where's blood from...


"you broke my heart" :)


backbone is really a hard bone


nevertheless...saw vs bones 1:0



a slaughterers portrait



aaaand the final cut


a spinal cord...good for some meal...but don't ask me what one...I really don't know and even don't want to know


and this is going to be a fine ham...hmmm, looking forward to it...


yummi, yummi :)



cleaning the head...everything had to be cleaned


uhm, eyes are not to eat, they had to go away



and this is going to be a bacon..


home made...bacon...not like those from hypermarkets...I know..it doesn't look like a bacon yet...



sweet soup isn't it?



the Core (of a pig ofcourse)


ribs...cutting the mess around to be nice and ready to roast


and finally...cutting the bacon


to pieces like these, hang them, smoke them and magic is done...they are ready to be eaten




and this is fat..pure fat...for the greaves


sadly..I didn't feel very well that day, so there are no more photos...but someday I will bring you some interesting shots of "making the meat-sausage"

until next time