How to trim hog jowl

[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

[denny66]

Joel bacon fried up is excellent with a big pot of brown beans! One of my all time favorites.

[craigrice]

denny66 home made baked beans done in a ceramic pot baked in the oven old school !

[Deepwoodsbutcher]

mars you could also try the urban butcher channel. Just watched a video on boning the pigs head where he shows trimming up the jowls

[denny66]

While we’re on the jowl bacon kick my uncle was a stickler for Jowl Bacon & cabbage for his New Years Day dinner. It has always been promoted as a traditional New Years Day meal. The area groceries promoted it as such by placing special prices on jowl. My uncle would buy every piece of jowl on the shelf Of a local store and we had a feast.
I never knew how or why pork became a New Years Day meal but a recent search on the internet provided one very interesting theory.
It goes something like this. Chicken & Turkey scratch backwards but a hog uses his snout to root going forward. That’s the way you should start the New Year “going forward” interesting to say the least. Good enough reason for me to enjoy a nice jowl bacon & cabbage meal with family & friends.

[dwilk1]

I always trim the glands out (gray squishy stuff) like the previous guy said Eckkehard the German Butcher doesn’t! https://youtu.be/Zmh0ZEZvM0U Here’s is jowl trimming video! I prefer jowls to slab bacon personally!