Well, I couldn't find this listed anywhere on the Web, so I compiled my own list.
These are my requests to the butcher who is processing a pig for us. I included diagrams (unattached), so he could see where the parts are. We'll see whether I get what I want. He's only used to cutting meat, so this is a lesson for him and I expect him to charge us for his education. Large animal dissection is not an easy thing when you are up to your ears in guts and have little ideas what you're looking for. In addition to his finding the parts, he'll have to process, cut, vacuum pack and label them.
Pork parts,
each item vacuum packed, labeled, as noted:
· Head: Split in half, packed separately
Ears, cut off, packed together
Tongue, deeply cut
Brain, halves packed separately
· Feet, packed
in pairs
· Hocks, with scraped
skin
· Tail,
skinned
· Skirts/diaphragm,
both thin and thick, and pads, in medium portions
· Trimmings not used for sausage
· Bones, all,
un-scraped, in medium sized bundles, large bones split and/or cut into pot
sizes
· Fat, all,
whatever is not needed for sausage, in medium sized portions
· Caul fat, in
small, ±1 foot, portions (also called lace fat, wrapped around organs)
· Skin,
scraped of hair and packed in medium sized amounts
· Organ meats,
packed separately by type, labeled:
o Thyroid: at neck,
below voice box, one on either side of, and bridging, bronchia, dark colored,
see diagrams
o Pancreas, if
large, pack in lobes: long, dark, crossways of the body, under liver at the
stomach toward the spine and kidneys, see diagrams,
o Spleen, cut
in medium sizes, packed separately: a long, dark, organ, wrapped around and under
stomach, see diagrams
o Thymus, not
usually found in adults: two smallish, dark organs, beside the bronchia or in
the front of the chest just under the ribs, see diagrams
o Liver,
unsliced, packed in lobes
o Kidneys, one
per pack, two if small
o Heart, whole
o Lungs, without
bronchia, cut in lobes, packed separately
o Stomach,
packed in medium portions
o Testicles or
uterus and ovarian structures
o Penis
o Blood,
coagulated, in quarts/half gal portions, in blocks or large cups
o Tripe, cleaned,
packed in medium portions
