How to trim hog jowl

[mars]

Just breaking a hog and been told smoked jowl is good. I can’t find any references on how to clean it. It looks like it is all glands. Do you leave all that on or clean it off? What’s the norm?

[Jonathon]

denny66 Any tips here? I know you just did a bunch of hogs and I think you had all the heads right?

[mars]

Jonathon I have a picture of the jowl. Can’t figure out how to post it. This jowl will not defeat me.

[Joe Hell]

Try looking for “How to Cut Jowl Bacon With Hand Hewn Farm” on YouTube

[mars]

Joe Hell thanks that video and few others that came up helped out. It will be Experience! Living in the south and learn a whole new of eating .

[Jonathon]

mars don’t let it win! There is a black cloud with an arrow pointing up at the top of the box when you reply or post. If that doesn’t work email them to jonathon@waltonsinc.com and let me know which post you want to put them on.

[mars]

mars here’s the photo of my jowl. Is my knife pointing at glands? Do you leave them in or trim them out? From the suggested video I gather it’s better to leave them in.

[Jonathon]

mars I am going to see if I can get some help from our application specialist on this one! Hopefully, I will have something for you tomorrow.

[mars]

mars well they are out of the smoker! How do they look guys? They look edible I’ll have to test it out at lunch!!! The one I’m point at I think is the same from the raw picture???

[Jonathon]

They look awesome! I am trying to get it so it shows in your post instead of having to click on it, so if you see something edited in your post, it was me!

[Jonathon]

mars did you remove the lymph nodes?

[Joe Hell]

mars Great color!

[mars]

Jonathon yes I removed all the free standing ones but that honeycomb stuff that I’m pointing at in the picture is still on ,that’s as far as I trimmed it. From multiple YouTube videos it seems to stay on???

[Jonathon]

mars general consensus here is that as long as you got the lymph nodes out you should be good to go!

[denny66]

Jonathon
Sorry about being absent and of no help. I opened this thread but felt too bad to post anything. A trip to the Dr. has got me back among the living.
I didn’t have any of that on my jowls so I just trimmed things up and then rubbed in the cure really good.

[Deepwoodsbutcher]

mars Eckkehard the German butcher in YouTube has a video on it

[Stats77]

Looks really good. I have never had it. How was it?

[denny66]

mars I know I was out of this posting for a couple days. I tried to read over it but I didn’t see any mention of a cure.
Sorry if I’m being noisy just curious.

[mars]

denny66 brown sugar cure and smoke 8 hrs cut it with the grain because it shirks so much tastes like bacon

[mars]

Deepwoodsbutcher thanks that’s the one I watch Eckkhard had said to leave them in never naming what they are