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?

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/topic/1952/how-to-trim-hog-jowlRSS for NodeThu, 10 Sep 2026 22:20:57 GMTTue, 14 Jan 2020 17:51:43 GMT60I 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!

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/11790https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/11790Tue, 21 Jan 2020 23:09:39 GMTWhile 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.

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/11662https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/11662Mon, 20 Jan 2020 18:06:45 GMTmars you could also try the urban butcher channel. Just watched a video on boning the pigs head where he shows trimming up the jowls

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/11562https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/11562Sun, 19 Jan 2020 19:20:33 GMTdenny66 home made baked beans done in a ceramic pot baked in the oven old school !

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/11530https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/11530Sun, 19 Jan 2020 01:18:08 GMTJoel bacon fried up is excellent with a big pot of brown beans! One of my all time favorites.

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/11527https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/11527Sun, 19 Jan 2020 00:52:10 GMTDeepwoodsbutcher thanks that’s the one I watch Eckkhard had said to leave them in never naming what they are

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/11517https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/11517Sat, 18 Jan 2020 21:17:31 GMTdenny66 brown sugar cure and smoke 8 hrs cut it with the grain because it shirks so much tastes like bacon

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/11516https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/11516Sat, 18 Jan 2020 21:14:41 GMTmars 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.

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/11508https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/11508Sat, 18 Jan 2020 15:32:26 GMTLooks really good. I have never had it. How was it?

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/11505https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/11505Sat, 18 Jan 2020 14:55:29 GMTmars Eckkehard the German butcher in YouTube has a video on it

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/11504https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/11504Sat, 18 Jan 2020 14:48:39 GMTJonathon
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.

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/11399https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/11399Thu, 16 Jan 2020 14:34:23 GMTmars general consensus here is that as long as you got the lymph nodes out you should be good to go!

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/11368https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/11368Wed, 15 Jan 2020 21:58:04 GMTJonathon 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???

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/11346https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/11346Wed, 15 Jan 2020 16:48:15 GMTmars Great color!

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/11342https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/11342Wed, 15 Jan 2020 16:35:02 GMTmars did you remove the lymph nodes?

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/11338https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/11338Wed, 15 Jan 2020 16:00:56 GMTThey 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!

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/11337https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/11337Wed, 15 Jan 2020 15:59:13 GMTmars 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???

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/11336https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/11336Wed, 15 Jan 2020 15:59:36 GMTmars 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.

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/11310https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/11310Wed, 15 Jan 2020 01:29:15 GMTmars 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.

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/11306https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/11306Wed, 15 Jan 2020 01:19:29 GMTmars 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.

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/11304https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/11304Wed, 15 Jan 2020 00:53:53 GMTJoe 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 .

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/11300https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/11300Tue, 14 Jan 2020 23:00:26 GMTTry looking for “How to Cut Jowl Bacon With Hand Hewn Farm” on YouTube

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/11280https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/11280Tue, 14 Jan 2020 19:50:29 GMTJonathon I have a picture of the jowl. Can’t figure out how to post it. This jowl will not defeat me.

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/11279https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/11279Tue, 14 Jan 2020 19:46:08 GMTdenny66 Any tips here? I know you just did a bunch of hogs and I think you had all the heads right?

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/11276https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/11276Tue, 14 Jan 2020 19:12:34 GMT