OT - What are you doing right now?

Acn

Tracked the kitten to a spot on a bookcase she probably shouldn’t be on.

TEXASBGE2018

Enjoying a nice hot chocolate and a fire

CPFC1905

Deployed at zero dark thirty because Child B plus wife & guests are descending for lunch.   Using my preferred Chef's Digest method courtesy of @Stormbringer from this parish. 
Ribs dredged in Dirty Cow rub, whisky barrel chips over Alderline.  Will be joined by a couple of spatchcocks later.  SWMBO doing the have lifting with dirty mac & cheese (proper old school full-fat dairy and smokey lardons), roast winter veg and maris piper roasties.  Then there's the cheese board to follow.  
I envisage a snoozey late afternoon. 

Ozzie_Isaac

CPFC1905 said:

Deployed at zero dark thirty because Child B plus wife & guests are descending for lunch.   Using my preferred Chef's Digest method courtesy of @Stormbringer from this parish. 
Ribs dredged in Dirty Cow rub, whisky barrel chips over Alderline.  Will be joined by a couple of spatchcocks later.  SWMBO doing the have lifting with dirty mac & cheese (proper old school full-fat dairy and smokey lardons), roast winter veg and maris piper roasties.  Then there's the cheese board to follow.  
I envisage a snoozey late afternoon. 

Looking good from here!  Great eats awaits.

nolaegghead

Trying to migrate my android phone data to my new iphone.  Major league suckitude.

lousubcap

@CPFC1905 - That menu sounds incredible.  Need a few $$ shots downstream.  

alaskanassasin

nolaegghead said:

Trying to migrate my android phone data to my new iphone.  Major league suckitude.

Uggh that’s going to plug the carb on the iPhone. Start new

Foghorn

SGH said:

@SGH, what kind of sausage (obviously pork) is that?  Any particular spice mix that you use?

lkapigian

nolaegghead said:

Trying to migrate my android phone data to my new iphone.  Major league suckitude.

Did that a few weeks ago, found an app that made it easy , think it was “ move to IOS”

Mark_B_Good

@SGH ... that looks amazing. How many lbs did you do ... looks like a lot. You splitting them up for freezer and dry curing? I need to get off my a$$ and make some.

Battleborn

Firing up the little guy for its first extended smoke. 

SGH

Foghorn said:

@SGH, what kind of sausage (obviously pork) is that?  Any particular spice mix that you use?

For all of it we used Leggs Old Plantation Blend #10. We was very pressed for time so nothing fancy this time. Just straight country sausage. 

nolaegghead

SGH said:

Foghorn said:

@SGH, what kind of sausage (obviously pork) is that?  Any particular spice mix that you use?

For all of it we used Leggs Old Plantation Blend #10. We was very pressed for time so nothing fancy this time. Just straight country sausage. 

Looks like fun!  Did you cut the wild boar meat with any domestic pig?  Or fatten them up for a while on grain?

SGH

nolaegghead said:

Looks like fun!  Did you cut the wild boar meat with any domestic pig?  Or fatten them up for a while on grain?

Just to be clear, the 3 shoats in the picture are not the hogs we killed. They will be killed in a few months. We killed one wild boar that had been castrated and fed out for 4 months. We also killed one domestic that had also been castrated a few months ago. The domestic weighed 230. The wild 150. 

The ground meat for sausage was all mixed together. 

SGH

Mark_B_Good said:

@SGH ... that looks amazing. How many lbs did you do ... looks like a lot. You splitting them up for freezer and dry curing? I need to get off my a$$ and make some.

Ended up with 100 pounds of stuffed sausage and 25 pounds of ground sausage. We left a good bit of meat on most of the bones (intentionally) and are brining it. It will be used in beans etc, etc. Both bellies are in the salt box now. We cut off both bellies and cut out chops. Everything else went for sausage or salt pork. 

Ozzie_Isaac

SGH said:

nolaegghead said:

Looks like fun!  Did you cut the wild boar meat with any domestic pig?  Or fatten them up for a while on grain?

Just to be clear, the 3 shoats in the picture are not the hogs we killed. They will be killed in a few months. We killed one wild boar that had been castrated and fed out for 4 months. We also killed one domestic that had also been castrated a few months ago. The domestic weighed 230. The wild 150. 

The ground meat for sausage was all mixed together. 

When you castrate them, does it help fatten them up?

SGH

Enjoying the first day of winter. Making some old time coffee and frying up some homemade sausage. 

hoosier_egger

Took advantage of the students being out of town and hit up my favorite poke spot on campus. 

fishlessman

Ozzie_Isaac said:

SGH said:

nolaegghead said:

Looks like fun!  Did you cut the wild boar meat with any domestic pig?  Or fatten them up for a while on grain?

Just to be clear, the 3 shoats in the picture are not the hogs we killed. They will be killed in a few months. We killed one wild boar that had been castrated and fed out for 4 months. We also killed one domestic that had also been castrated a few months ago. The domestic weighed 230. The wild 150. 

The ground meat for sausage was all mixed together. 

When you castrate them, does it help fatten them up?

it was either to fatten them up OR that he just got hungry

Gulfcoastguy

I guess pigs like doing 2 things and SGH eliminated one of them.

SGH

Ozzie_Isaac said:

When you castrate them, does it help fatten them up?

It indeed does help to fatten them up. But the biggest benefit of castrating anything wild is to to remove the “wild” taste. After castrating and feeding out most people could not tell the difference between wild and domestic meat. 

SGH

Any of you know how to post a video from your photo library? 

SGH

I have never been able to do it. Any help would be greatly appropriated. 

lkapigian

SGH said:

I have never been able to do it. Any help would be greatly appropriated. 

If you have a you tube account , upload it there , then share it here 

SGH

lkapigian said:

If you have a you tube account , upload it there , then share it here 

Is that the only option?

lkapigian

SGH said:

lkapigian said:

If you have a you tube account , upload it there , then share it here 

Is that the only option?

@SGH I am sure there are others , but I use that one . I am sure there are the hours savvy out there to point in the right direction, ewetube is just easy and free 

JohnInCarolina

The Cen-Tex Smoker

Battleborn said:

Firing up the little guy for its first extended smoke. 

you are going to have a blast with that one. Fun little cooker.

Botch

SGH said:

Any of you know how to post a video from your photo library? 

It used to be really easy, but someone kept making posts of 27 stupid high-rez pictures of shaving foam, and everyone else would "Quote" that post, and it ground the forum to a halt for the Less Privileged on the forum.  The Buffalo guy made some changes to prevent that, but now we can't post videos directly.
 
Sad, really.    

Ozzie_Isaac

Botch said:

SGH said:

Any of you know how to post a video from your photo library? 

It used to be really easy, but someone kept making posts of 27 stupid high-rez pictures of shaving foam, and everyone else would "Quote" that post, and it ground the forum to a halt for the Less Privileged on the forum.  The Buffalo guy made some changes to prevent that, but now we can't post videos directly.
 
Sad, really.    

@Botch has waited for so long to post this response!  @SGH you just made his year.  I would also love to tag Botch's post with an off-topic, but sadly that option is done too.