| Who butchers their own meat?
Posted: 12/17/2005 8:23:12 AM | any body?
I gotta go cut up a deer today. Do it every year. Anyone else do that here? Why do you do it? Why dont you do it?
Is a dating site the place to talk about it? hell yeah | |
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| Who butchers their own meat?
Posted: 12/17/2005 9:19:50 AM | Deer hunting in December? I haven't been for about 12 years, but I think our season closes earlier than that here in BC.
I like hunting, but do not like the butchering part. It's part of the deal, but I don't like it. The hunting and the eating are the good parts! | |
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| Who butchers their own meat?
Posted: 12/17/2005 9:33:24 AM | | its not about hunting, it is about butchering, amigo. Oh, and we can hunt in PA for quite a while. I think Archery and Muzzle loading are still in. I have had this deer hanging for a week, supposed to be good for the meat to age it. | |
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| Who butchers their own meat?
Posted: 12/17/2005 3:43:20 PM | | not in years since dad died ... dad would go hunting every year and end up with either a deer or moose that he'd bring home ... grandad was a butcher so dad would drop the animal off at grandad's shop ... gramps would hang it for 21 days in the cooler then butcher to our specs and flash freeze for us | |
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| Who butchers their own meat?
Posted: 12/18/2005 12:14:21 AM | | I occassionally buy chickens from a local farm and butcher them myself. If you have never tried it you have no idea how much better it tastes fresh off of the butcher block. | |
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| Who butchers their own meat?
Posted: 12/18/2005 4:08:08 AM | o-t-b,
Does PA allow handgun hunting? (I mean sometime during the year, even if only for small game). Canada is really lame about that sort of thing. We can't even legally take legally owned pistols out to the country to target shoot! What the hell do the a*sholes think we are going to do out there? Rob the bank of the bush?!! | |
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| Who butchers their own meat?
Posted: 12/18/2005 8:19:41 AM | | yes, many carry a hand gun while they hunt. In fact, I know a dude who last bear season went our equipped witha pistol and a compass, and he went fearlessly off into the woods tracking. Traveling light and fast. He eventually cut a track and caught up to the bruin, and situations were such that he missed his opportunity for the shot, but was so jazzed by the experience, he felt really connected to that animal and was happy to let it go. | |
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| Who butchers their own meat?
Posted: 12/18/2005 9:02:58 AM | | I attended veterinary medical school, so I have cut up all kinds of dead animals. Never for food, though. I don't think I'd have a problem with it. | |
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| Who butchers their own meat?
Posted: 12/18/2005 2:23:40 PM | Well, back when I had a husband, house, and land to raise them on, I raised two hogs every summer, fed them and everything. When it came to buthering time, some young male friends did the actual killing in exchange for the hog head. They liked head cheese. We took the rest to a local butcher and had it cut into hams, chops, and the rest. Home grown tastes a heck of a lot better than store bought. (the children named the hogs every year.)
After the hubby got concerned about the dangers of high cholesterol, I raised chickens every summer. Did the butching and everything with help from most of the kids. Quit the summer I lost three sets of chickens to weasels.
Funny thing. Hubby was raised on a farm, but he got sick to his stomach when it came to butchering. My youngest son refused to eat chicken unless it came from KFC. 
Nowadays, I don't even cut up store bought chicken. I buy it in pieces. I prefec KFC. Go figure! | |
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| Who butchers their own meat?
Posted: 12/18/2005 2:28:24 PM | | When I was young I quartered elk, deer. I was many years still from learing all the cuts.I could dress and debone rabbit. We raised chickens, turkeys and hares for food. (My sisters hated me) It was during this time I learned to debone chickens and turkeys. | |
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| Who butchers their own meat?
Posted: 12/18/2005 2:42:35 PM | I did! It was my favourite part of school!
I love deboning chicken and fileting fish. It's good times...although I don't do it very often. WE use to race in school!! | |
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| Who butchers their own meat?
Posted: 12/18/2005 2:53:11 PM | | Speaking of race. Funny only to me, lol. At that catering job I mentioned earlier, this girl who is a current student of the cordon bleu ask me to race on a simple task of taking the tops off of hundreds of strawberries for the chocolate event. I was twice as fast! I guess you guys race alot on chopping tasks at school. My knives are still as fast as ever. | |
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| Who butchers their own meat?
Posted: 12/18/2005 4:54:28 PM | | Deboning a chicken is pretty easy if you have the road map. I hated dressing chickens, so I had my Amish neighbor do it. She was 80, and did it for a buck a piece. Cheap for a chore I hated. | |
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| Who butchers their own meat?
Posted: 12/18/2005 5:05:09 PM |
and fileting fish
I am SO sorry for being a stuck record, but it is "filleting" where fish are concerned. | |
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| Who butchers their own meat?
Posted: 12/18/2005 5:18:00 PM | I don't filet fish because I don't like fish. I do eat it twice weekly for health reasons but I don't prepare myself, unless it's tuna fish from a can.
When I was butching and dressing chickens, I didn't care for. My oldest daughter loved doing that and she was good at it. Faster than me.
I don't have the stomach for this kind of stuff any more, but the best meat I've ever eaten has been venison, pork and chicken (poeltry).  | |
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| Who butchers their own meat?
Posted: 12/18/2005 5:29:32 PM | Sometimes I hate myself as much as some of you might, but again, it is "filleting" with two l's where fish are concerned. You don't "Filet-O-Fish"!
Sorry to be such a pain, but facts are facts. | |
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| Who butchers their own meat?
Posted: 12/18/2005 6:07:14 PM | | depends on where you're from ... fillet is used in the UK ... filet is used in the US ... had to know the difference when I was transcribing - UK spelling for International and Canadian markets, US spelling for the US market | |
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| Who butchers their own meat?
Posted: 12/18/2005 8:30:35 PM | | No, in North America it is "filleting". I am a fisherman, read all the mags, books, and know of what I speak. | |
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| Who butchers their own meat?
Posted: 12/18/2005 8:35:19 PM | | Who cares? filet or fillet! Picky, picky! I don't like fish anyway. I'd rather eat chicken. Thank you! | |
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| Who butchers their own meat?
Posted: 12/18/2005 8:45:52 PM | | Who cares? I care. If you don't care why not learn something of tradition and heritage instead of insisting "fillet" is incorrect. Don't mean to be a pain, but facts and truth should not be denied or ignored. | |
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| Who butchers their own meat?
Posted: 12/18/2005 9:16:32 PM |
I thought we covered the filet/ fillet controversy in another thread. We say filet hear. The knives we buy are filet knives. I can go to that thread again and pull my supporting links (Wusthoff, Global and Henkles all sell the filet knife) and the encyclopedic entries say they are interchangeable.
You are like a bulldog when it comes to skinning a fish! 
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| Who butchers their own meat?
Posted: 12/18/2005 9:54:51 PM | | Yes, we covered it, you just refuse to relent. Skinning and filleting are not the same thing, and you demonstrate a lack of knowledge of knives also. Henkels (Germany) my fave, but none of those makers (none from North America, I might add) have a knife designed for fish. It IS a "filleting" knife, and yes, I am Canadian, always have been. Are you an angler (fisherman)? I can tell you are NOT, never have been. I do not mean to seem like a "bulldog", but I do take issue to cultural and traditional mores being modified and/or changed without rhyme or reason. | |
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| Who butchers their own meat?
Posted: 12/18/2005 9:58:40 PM | Further, In the United States, "filleting" is the correct usage. I have been involved in fishing for over 40 years. Can you say 'Fillet"?
ps- Contact the "In Fisherman" magazine (US) and ask them what they think... | |
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