What hogs are good for.........

[FLAvalanche]

FL, I'd love to watch and learn...from a safe distance!

But seriously, I have done the boiling water and scraping the hair off method and used a pressure washer to blast the hair off too but found it more trouble than I felt it was worth. We just skin them these days. Does your scorching method leave any remote taste of that burnt hair smell? How much and what do you recomend drinking to get over the smell while you are scorching one?
~z

Sorry it took me so long to reply...Second phase of deer season of started.

The boiling and scraping is WAY too much work. Burning off the hair is so much easier and faster. Yeah it stinks but considering you just field dressed a wild hog there isn't too much out there that smells worse. If the smell gets to you just rub a little Vicks under your nose and get busy. You just pass it over the hog quickly. The goal is to burn the hair off and not burn the skin which is why the roofing tar defuser is really handy.

As long as you scrub it with a good stiff brush and some liquid soap and rinse it well there won't be any taste.

After that they get spiced up and thrown in the Chinese box to cook all day. And if you cook them like that you want the skin on them or it will dry out and be like eating shoe leather. My general rule with hog is if you're cooking it fast, like a tenderloin, take the skin off. If you're cooking it slow, like you would a whole pig or a shoulder, leave the skin on.

I've done the whole "skin them in strips" thing and it sucks.