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The Essential Homesteader's Shopping Guide

Butchering Workshops

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Homestead Hog Butchering Workshop

Join Reformation Acres in Ohio each December to learn how to butcher a hog and the art of Charcuterie with Hand Hewn Farm. [/one-half]

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Home Butchering

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Old Hickory Knife Set

Quality carbon steel knives.

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Leather Strop

Sharp knives are humane knives. Keep your knives sharp on butchering day.

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Wusthof Bone Saw

A bone saw is necessary for butchering large livestock like hogs or beef.

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Meat Totes

Easy to carry, easy to clean. Lots of totes are helpful on butchering day.

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Bone Dust Scraper

Clean bone dust off meat after sawing.

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Outdoor Burner

An outdoor burner has more uses than on butchering day so we use it instead of a turkey fryer.

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Sausage Grinder

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Coated Butcher Freezer Paper

After trying every method of packaging out there, we came back to using coated butcher freezer paper as the best for freezing meat (except for whole chickens and ground meat.)

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Freezer Tape & Dispenser

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Poultry Shrink Wrap Bags

Our favorite way to package whole chickens. Easy and no freezer burn!

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Ground Meat Freezer Bags

Easiest way to package ground meat.

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Tape Bag Sealer

For using with the ground meat freezer bags.

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Vacuum Sealer

We still use a vacuum sealer for curing bacon, guanciale, pancetta, and hams.

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Butcher Twine

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Restraining Cone

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Cleaning Table

Great for butchering chickens. Keeps them from slipping all over and the faucet & drain keeps the workspace clean.

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Chicken Plucker

Once you butcher chickens with a plucker, you’ll never go back to hand-plucking.

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Stainless Steel Pot

Use for dunking chickens prior to plucking, making headcheese or stock, for packaging chickens in the poultry shrink bags.

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Butchering Poultry, Rabbit, Lamb, Goat, Pork

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Butchering Beef

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Charcuterie

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River Cottage Curing & Smoking Handbook

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