cleaning hog intestines ('scraping casings')

We've never tried to make a video before, but here is two minutes on how to prepare intestines for sausage casings.

Barry informs me that these intestines were not hosed out, but squeezed out, just for the record. That means that when we gutted the hog, we pulled free the loops of intestines, took them down to the garden, and squeezed them out, end to end. Then we looped them up like a bight of rope and cut right through every loop, leaving us holding a bunch of four foot sections. These are what I'm dealing with in the video.

On Friday we'll be hanging another hog and two steers, and we'll get a video of the squeezing process.

Bon appetit!