The Ultimate Guide to Butchering, Smoking, Curing, Sausage, and Jerky Making

Trust The Ultimate Guide to Butchering, Smoking, Curing, Sausage, and Jerky Making to ensure you get the most out of your beef, pork, venison, lamb, poultry, and goat.

Absolutely everything you need to know about how to dress and preserve meat is right here. From slaughtering, to processing, to preserving in ways like smoking, salting, and making jerky, author Philip Hasheider teaches it all in step-by-step instructions and illustrations, which guide you through the entire process: how to properly secure the animal and then safely and humanely transforming the meat into future meals for your family. Along the way, you'll learn about different cuts of meat and learn how to process them into different products, like sausages and jerky.

With The Complete Book of Butchering, Smoking, Curing, and Sausage Making, you will quickly learn:

• How to make the best primal and retail cuts from an animal
• How to field dress the most popular wild game
• Why cleanliness and sanitation are of prime importance for home processing
• What tools, equipment, and supplies are needed for home butchering
• How to safely handle live animals before slaughter
• Important safety practices to avoid injuries
• About the changes meat goes through during processing
• Why temperature and time are important factors in meat processing
• How to properly dispose of unwanted parts
• The details of animal anatomy

The best meals are the ones you make yourself, why not extend this sentiment all the way to the meat itself?

Author: Philip Hasheider
Publisher: Harvard Common Press
Published: 10/29/2019
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.90w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781558329874
ISBN10: 1558329870
BISAC Categories:
- Cooking | Specific Ingredients | Meat
- Cooking | Methods | Canning & Preserving
- Technology & Engineering | Agriculture | Animal Husbandry

About the Author

Philip Hasheider is a farmer and writer. He's the author of How to Raise Cattle; How to Raise Pigs; The Complete Book of Butchering, Smoking, Curing, and Sausage Making; The Hunter's Guide to Butchering, Smoking, and Curing Wild Game and Fish; and The Complete Book of Jerky: How to Process, Prepare, and Dry Beef, Venison, Turkey, Fish, and More​. A former cheesemaker's assistant, he lives on a farm near Sauk City, Wisconsin.