How to get hair off a goat

[jpbon]

Recently shot a goat and began skinning it but once skinned, had hair all over it. Was is the best way to get all the hair off it? I've heard that the blow torch method works well........any other suggestions?

[Luke]

What had hair on it? The body/meat or the pelt?

I'm confused about what exactly you're asking :? :oops:

8)

[jpbon]

The meat Luke, had hair all over it. When we skinned it hair managed to get onto the meat. All over it, legs, mid section etc.

[Garden Gnome!]

I think that using a blow torch may taint the meat with the smell of burnt hair. I've had no probs using warm water and a scouring pad. Be patient though you may have some left behind it better than a lot.

Yours In Archery,

Gnome!

[jindydiver]

A wash cloth (or one of those big flat scourers) soaked in water and vinegar. Wipe it down and wipe it dry. Any hair left you can cut out when you skin the silver skin off the meat.

Don’t just wash it with heaps of water and leave it wet unless you have a very cold place with lots of ventilation to hang it to dry.


You can avoid that hair on the meat altogether by using the right technique when skinning it out. You will have hardly a hair cut if you always use your knife to cut from the inside out. When you cut from the groin to the feet you lay the back of the knife blade on the meat and run it up the leg and the skin opens like it has a zipper in it. When you get to the hock you start to spiral around the bone and back onto the cut.
If you just run your knife around the hock to cut the skin you are also cutting all the hair under your blade and Murphy’s laws says it has to blow onto the sticky wet meat underneath. :)

[Hoyt_Trykon]

Whats wrong with a little hair?? Extra flavour lads :wink: . lol.

[jpbon]

Whats wrong with a little hair?? Extra flavour lads :wink: . lol.

Maybe back in the 70's Trykon! :P

Will definitely give that a go on the next goat jindy, thanks. I know some people that use a blowtorch to get the hair off a deer. Would this work for a goat as well? I would think that it'll burn the meat and give it a funny taste.

[jindydiver]

I wouldn't use a blowtorch. If the hair is stuck flat down on the meat and to burn it you will be heating the meat under it. Just clean it off and when the meat is set and you are ready to butcher your meat the silver skin will come away with all the hair stuck to it. By the time you have your meat ready to freeze or cook you shouldn't have any left on there.

Any exposed meat, like where you cut the rump away can be lightly filleted to remove dry bits of meat and the hair will go too.