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Guests coming from the mainland at the end of the month. One is a professional chef and she wants to cook a wild pig in an imu. I've never done this and am reading up online as to the process.
Well, we have plenty of cinder in our yard and can get a hole dug. We've a source for burlap and banana stalks/leaves and I gotta buy some chicken wire.
What I need is a source for the wild pig. Not too big and it must already been cleaned and gutted, since I haven't a clue how to handle that process. Also, I'll need a source for firewood.
Anyone have any suggestions about how to get a wild pig and firewood? Or suggestions for cooking in the imu?
Since I've never done this, I don't want to call it a full-blown luau. Won't be making the lomi-lomi or mac salad since this is a test. If successful, maybe it can do invites next time! Thank you for any help you can offer.
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I am the least qualified to answer, but the most willing. I noticed on the dryside web that there was a discussion about wild pigs and what to do when you have one in your yard. Over there, apparently, there is a surplus. There is someone who will come and take them off your hands. You need that someone!
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I love it Glen, "Dryside Web" is just hilarious!
BTW, the "surpluss" pig was a sick one, not for imu but probably ready for the pig heaven.
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Don't know where you are etc, but this could be a perfect opportunity to enlist the aid of a local neighbor - for the resources, the expertise, and more importantly, the sharing.
I suspect you professional chef guest would appreciate the learning experience and it's not all online.
Have fun, I did it with a neighbor when I lived on Oahu - what an experience.
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Oh, that's right, John. Now I recall on the I-Need-More-Oil-of-Olay-Quick website that the pig was not well. I guess I was thinking that the "sick" pig could call for help and maybe the "doctor" pigs would come running, and then there's your imu. (For a discussion of who would pay the doctor pigs, please see other thread).
I guess my point --if I had one-- is that pigs run wild. I personally will not run wild anywhere a wild pig might run because I wouldn't want to get shot by mistake (or on purpose).
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Well, she's a "professional" chef, so shouldn't she be able to make a pig into pork? Set up a trap in your yard, add avocadoes and other tasty things and then keep the pig in the trap until your chef arrives. Hehehehe! Our neighbor caught one the day after Thanksgiving using a turkey carcass.
You could put a note on the bulletin board at Del's Feedstore and other places like that. There may be some already listed on Del's bulletin board, I don't know if it was wild pigs or not but there are usually pigs listed for sale.
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Have you ever eaten the wild pig? Can be kinda gamey? That said - here is our world famous trap. Pigs are cloven,... duh - so you put hog fencing up in a area that goes downhill. Put a piece of metal about 6-8 ft long (old tin roof works good) as a "slide" into the pen. Put a bowl of dog food in the pen. The pig goes to check the food out, walks down or slides down - cant get back uphill on the tin. Feed them out for a few weeks on scraps - yum!! Tasty!
also try this -
Pig Hunters Of Hawaii
P.O. Box 85
Papaikou, HI 96781
E-mail: phoh@hawaii.rr.com
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Or feed them up on guava and papaya for a few weeks as done on the Lamont spread before the cook out, and a delicious and tender roast piggie was had by all, I hear!
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Consider being a bit fussy about the firewood. I did a turkey in my fire pit a while back and burned albezia. It produces a very sweet smoke which flavored the meat too much I thought.
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Mella! What a great idea about the papaya! Pam...they have patain in them (and the greener ones even more) and that would really make a difference I'm guessing in how tender the meat is...
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