Show Us Your Meat, and We'll Show You Ours

[Apoc]

One of the reasons I like living in this part of the country is because it's so easy to buy your food from someone you can meet. About every 18 months, the wife and order a hog from a farmer on the Olympic Peninsula. They wait until they get enough orders to have a slaughter day, which can be 2-4 months after order. Once the hog is slaughtered, the smoke shop they partner with calls you for your order. Out of ~90 lbs. of meat, you can choose how much sausage, bacon, chops, etc. you want. They'll also smoke your bacon and ham to specification. A few weeks later we pick it up at the farmer's market a few minutes away.



One of the best things to come from the pigs is the bacon (duh). As you can see in the pics below, it looks, cooks, and tastes so different than anything you buy in the store... and we buy the fancy shit. I have to think this is how people used to eat bacon. I included some blurry pics below for reference. Yes, the eggs are cooked in bacon fat. :twisted:

[SlimKlim]

Sweet Jesus that's a nice meat stash. My parents are doing something similar, they have two dedicated freezers in the basement and they are buying their meat from local farms in quantities like "quarter cow" "half hog" and "a dozen chickens" now.

Did you break those yolks intentionally? I overcooked some sunny side up eggs last night and briefly considered Seppuku.

[Apoc]

Yeah. My wife doesn't like the yolk uncooked, so I break them to even out cooking times.

We put a chest freezer in our basement to accommodate. It's turned out to be great, because we also freeze a ton of fruit when it's in season. Oh, and we make our own chicken stock because I developed a carrot allergy five minutes ago.

[SlimKlim]

Oh man, I stole one of those chickens out of my parents freezer last time I visited them. I think maybe I over-roasted it because the meat was honestly a little bland and a hell of a lot tougher than store bought, but shit, I made a stock with the carcass and it ended up being the best chicken & rice soup of my life. Amazing how much more flavor you get in a stock vs a store bought bird.

I need to get some more of those little bastards.

[Ken]

Did you break those yolks intentionally? I overcooked some sunny side up eggs last night and briefly considered Seppuku.

I thought that was just me. For some reason it is one of the most disheartening and borderline day ruining things when i accidentally break the yolk when cracking the egg.

[CaptainHenreh]

Yeah. My wife doesn't like the yolk uncooked, so I break them to even out cooking times.

I don't care for uncooked yolk either, but I didn't eat eggs for 30 years so I'm probably wrong.

[.RJ]

Yeah. My wife doesn't like the yolk uncooked, so I break them to even out cooking times.

I don't care for uncooked yolk either, but I didn't eat eggs for 30 years so I'm probably wrong.

Yes

[ScottyB]

I thought that was just me. For some reason it is one of the most disheartening and borderline day ruining things when i accidentally break the yolk when cracking the egg.

my wife doesn't understand my rage when i do that by accident either.....might as well just dump the egg on the floor for the dogs and go back to bed hungry at that point :lol:

if you cook the yolk, what are you going to sop up with the toast? gaaahhh so good

[Apoc]

Warm, runny yolk is one of the best foods on the planet.

It was meat gravy before gravy was cool.

[SlimKlim]

Warm, runny yolk is one of the best foods on the planet.

It was meat gravy before gravy was cool.

It's God's Special Sauce.

[Mike]

holy shit. my breakfast looks identical to your plate. wish i had snapped a pic. only difference was i did one toast, added some tomatoes on the side, and cast iron.

bread from down the street.
eggs from a friend a few blocks away.
tomatoes from the yard.
bacon from the dude at the farmer's market who lives just outside of town.

life if good... minus some parts.

[WRXtranceformed]

Yes that is the only way to get bacon. My buddy's father is a retired butcher and he gets this stuff from a local hog farm in Ohio that is exactly like that. Every time he comes and visits my friend I buy a significant amount of the bacon he brings down with him. It cooks up almost like bacon steak, it's hard to describe.

[Senor_Taylor]

If y'all order sunny up eggs at restaurants, you're the worst kind of people.

Don't get me wrong, I like my eggs over medium, but is over well that bad?

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[Ken]

If y'all order sunny up eggs at restaurants, you're the worst kind of people.

Don't get me wrong, I like my eggs over medium, but is over well that bad?

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GTFO.

[WRXtranceformed]

If y'all order sunny up eggs at restaurants, you're the worst kind of people.

Don't get me wrong, I like my eggs over medium, but is over well that bad?

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TRIGGERED

where is my safe space??

[Apoc]

I prefer over easy, if I'm honest. I want everything clear to be white and everything orange/yellow to be liquid.

Lee - the texture is like ham steak... but it tastes like bacon.

[WRXtranceformed]

I prefer over easy, if I'm honest. I want everything clear to be white and everything orange/yellow to be liquid.

Lee - the texture is like ham steak... but it tastes like bacon.

Yes that is a perfect description like a ham steak, a thicker better tasting canadian bacon

[Mike]

can we talk about scrapple?

[JPolen01]

can we talk about scrapple?

Only if we are discussing the garbage that it is.

[Apoc]

delicious garbage. i whined about it not being available around here on facebook and i fully expect a dry ice box from my mom to show up at some point. that shit is my childhood in a meat-brick of pig leftovers. YUM.