I got `Hugh and Ray`s Pig in a day` DVD and its really useful. I can rerun the complicated bits till I get it right. I also have adapted some of the techniques like soaking the bacon for half an hour before frying and it makes fantastic breakfast rashers.
Thats especially true for Ray their butcher, what a great bloke and really knows his stuff. I went down again this year for smoking and curing and equally as good.
I really like River Cottage but it is a lot easier to lead the good life if you have a stream of well-paid city-dwellers ready to fund your lifestyle.
Good for you, Phil. The point below about £175 for the course does seem to exclude a lot of simple folk that HFW depicts as friends in his series. Fine if it's corporate entertainment or Jamie is footing the bill for 15. The River Cottage set-up looks pretty smart these days as a result. Good for Hugh and Rick Stein and Jamie (and Argos if they really have £6 clothes rails); they sell what people want.
I love ray x x x
byford1978 9 months ago
I got `Hugh and Ray`s Pig in a day` DVD and its really useful. I can rerun the complicated bits till I get it right. I also have adapted some of the techniques like soaking the bacon for half an hour before frying and it makes fantastic breakfast rashers.
rouseg7 1 year ago
i just amde some homade salami cacitore is it necasary to prick them whne curing and hanging them up?
stugats77 2 years ago
Thats especially true for Ray their butcher, what a great bloke and really knows his stuff. I went down again this year for smoking and curing and equally as good.
bigsalamiphil 2 years ago
People have to be paid for there labour .
It would be nice if we could all do it for nothing or for pennies.
£175 is cheap compared to alot of courses in charcutarie and butchering.
Some cooking courses are £300 a day.
At the end of the day you can't beat learning from a pro.
A good teacher is worth a thousand books.
Yehbytheway 2 years ago 4
I've just been to the smoking and curing course and it was FANTASTIC and worth every penny. I saved up for it. Simple
beefyillustrations 2 years ago
I really like River Cottage but it is a lot easier to lead the good life if you have a stream of well-paid city-dwellers ready to fund your lifestyle.
SleepyMenton 3 years ago
Certainly not a 'well paid city-dweller' just prefer to spend my hard worked cash on hobby other than drinkin' an' smokin'
bigsalamiphil 3 years ago 7
Good for you, Phil. The point below about £175 for the course does seem to exclude a lot of simple folk that HFW depicts as friends in his series. Fine if it's corporate entertainment or Jamie is footing the bill for 15. The River Cottage set-up looks pretty smart these days as a result. Good for Hugh and Rick Stein and Jamie (and Argos if they really have £6 clothes rails); they sell what people want.
SleepyMenton 3 years ago
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lmao! it luks lyk a condom xD
littlemascot 3 years ago
can you believe how much they charge for these courses? £175 ...... they must have more money than sense.Just buy a book and get on with it!
sisyphusandhisrock 3 years ago