Watched a guy break down a whole hog at the Kentucky State Fair with nothing but a 6 inch curved boning knife, now I'm wondering if my bandsaw is just making me lazy | Butchers - Thought Shares
Watched a guy break down a whole hog at the Kentucky State Fair with nothing but a 6 inch curved boning knife, now I'm wondering if my bandsaw is just making me lazy
Man that fair guy is on another level honestly. When I first started cutting I used a saw for everything too and it made me sloppy with my knife work. What helped me was getting a few cheap hogs and forcing myself to do the whole thing by hand, just slow and steady. It sucks at first and your forearms will hate you but after a couple hogs you start to feel where the joints actually are. The saw still has its place for splitting and big cuts but doing the breakdown by hand taught me way more about the animal than the saw ever did.