Oct
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Pig to Pork Workshop

Association Mondego-Vale

Living from self produced food workshop–animals as food–home butchery

Saturday 6th (7.30am – 5pm) to Sunday 7th of November (9am – approx 5/6pm)

Quinta do Animal, Póvoa de Midões, Tábua

40 euros per person, lunch included on both days

Please book by 1st November to secure your place.

Limited places available, but possible further workshops – so register your interest!

Contact Fiona 00351 965366221

DAY 1 – starting promptly at 7.30am (you must arrive on time, otherwise risk missing an important part of the workshop) – finishing at 5pm.

How to slaughter and prepare pork
o  Materials/tools, equipment and preparations
o  When, where and how you start
o  Hygiene
o  Methods of killing, including ethics and male/female difference
o  Killing
o  Hang
o  Bleeding
o  Burning fur
o  Scraping bristles
o  Removing horny toes
o  Washing
o  Closing the openings (rectum, urine tube)
o  Opening the pig (haul out of innards, select out the organs)
o  Splitting the carcass
o  Removal of the brain
o  Washing the carcass
o  Ripening the flesh

DAY 2 – starting at 9am – finishing around 5 or 6pm.

Home butchery and preserving flesh for later consumption
o  Canning
o  Smoking
o  Salting/dry curing
o  Drying/making sausages
o  Preparations for salted ham
o Dividing the pork into steak, fillet, loin, ribs and spare ribs

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6 Comments on Pig to Pork Workshop

  1. O porco says:
    26/10/2010 at 9:55 am

    Go vegan

  2. recycle says:
    01/11/2010 at 9:13 pm

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  3. Pig Workshop – Portugal Smallholding says:
    06/12/2010 at 10:12 am

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  4. Gina says:
    20/12/2010 at 6:32 am

    I am surprised to see this advertisement on an Eco Living website since animal farming is one of the biggest contributing factors to environmental destruction!

  5. admin says:
    20/12/2010 at 7:04 am

    Hi Gina
    Large scale animal farming is not only exceptionally cruel it is also, as you say, environmentally destructive. That’s why we wholeheartedly support and promote very small-scale organic meat production which also helps the environement – animals have a very important role in ecosystems.
    xx

  6. paul rainey says:
    18/08/2011 at 1:52 pm

    This looks like a great course . Very interesting being able to rear your own animals for meat . knowing what they have been fed , knowing they have had a good life and been well cared for .Unlike when you go to a supermarket or butchers ,As you dont know how the animals have been reared .Or even wher they have come from etc. i will certainly be on the course this year

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