One of the FReepers posted a feral-hog ham recipe and said that regular hog ham tasted funny to him. More people have said that feral hog meat doesn’t taste good. How do you treat it? Seems like a shame to waste an abundant resource when people could use it.
The rule is: THE HAND THAT TOUCHES THE HIDE DOES NOT TOUCH THE FLESH. Most of the off taste comes from contaminating the meat with the nasty stuff on the outside.
Personally, I use straw, propane torch and scrape to keep the skin on.
Modern processing of commercial pigs uses a scalding bath to loosen the hair, last I heard, but I'm not boiling that much water. The straw method works for me.
/johnny
Eat chicken in a foreign country. Our husbandry techniques in America produce more pounds of meat per dollar, but tastes very different