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The Ultimate Guide to Home Butchering

How to Prepare Any Animal or Bird for the Table or Freezer
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The Ultimate Guide to Home Butchering by Monte Burch is a comprehensive resource that explores the art of butchering. The book provides detailed instructions on processing animals like beef, poultry, and game, with a focus on tools, techniques, and hygiene. It’s an invaluable guide for those seeking to enhance their self-sufficiency and culinary skills through sustainable practices.
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If you have an interest in mastering the craft of butchering at home, this comprehensive guide offers detailed instructions and expert advice. It covers a variety of techniques and provides practical insights, making it ideal for anyone keen on enhancing their culinary skills from farm to table.

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With more than forty years of experience butchering domestic animals, game, and birds, award-winning outdoor writer and photographer Monte Burch presents this complete guide for butchering many types of livestock or wild animals.

Learn how to butcher cows, chickens, goats, hogs, deer, turkeys, rabbits, and more, with simple and easy-to-follow, step-by-step photographs and illustrations. Burch also provides recommendations on which tools (knives, paring knives, meat scissors, meat grinders, shrink-wrappers) to use for the task at hand.

He lists detailed instructions on how to butcher each animal and use each part, so nothing goes to waste. Now you'll be able to prepare meat for salting and curing, freezing, sausage making, and more.

From field dressing, skinning, and boning out a whole deer to efficiently plucking ducks and bleeding out hogs, The Ultimate Guide to Home Butchering is the one-stop guide to help you become more self-sufficient in preparing your meat for your table.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781510746015

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 17 September 2019

Country: United States

Imprint: Sky Pony Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 522g

Pages: 288

About the Author

Monte Burch is an award-winning freelance writer, photographer, and author of over seventy-five books and thousands of outdoors and how-to magazine articles. The topics of his books range from building outdoor gear and hunting lodges, to hunting turkeys, to seasonal patterns for walleye. He lives in Humansville, Missouri.

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