Hands-On Butchery Class-Chicken/Beef & Pork
$100.00
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📅 Date: August 16th
⏰ Time: 1 pm -3 pm
📍 Location: Feathered Acres Farm, Belgrade
💲 Cost: $150 per person
Join us for a hands-on butchery and meat education class designed to help you feel more confident preparing, purchasing, and cooking meat at home.
Knife Skills
- Learn how to safely handle and use a knife
- Understand the differences between common types of knives and when to use each one
- Learn how to use a honing steel to straighten and maintain your knife’s edge
Butchery
- Learn how to break down a whole chicken into individual cuts
- Understand where each cut comes from
- Learn the best cooking methods for different chicken cuts
- Learn how to break down a Boston butt
- Identify the different cuts and products that can be made from it
- Learn about common pork cuts and where they come from on the hog
Making Your Own Sausage
- Grind pork and make homemade ground sausage
- Learn how to make sausage links at home
- Learn how to choose and source seasonings
- Understand what nitrates are, why they are used, and how they affect processed meats
Understanding Beef and Pork Cuts
- Identify common beef and pork cuts
- Learn where each cut comes from on the animal
- Discover the best cooking methods for different cuts
- Learn common butcher terminology
Ordering Meat Directly from your local farmer
- Learn how to confidently order meat from a butcher or local farmer
- Understand how to order a whole or half hog
- Learn how beef shares work
- Learn what to ask for when ordering whole chickens or bulk meat
- Better understand cut sheets, processing options, and butcher terminology
This class will give you practical, hands-on experience while helping you understand how locally raised meat goes from the farm to your table.
Each participant will also take home some delicious local meat! (2 chickens)