Draining the Pork Water

Every few days you have to drain the hams. The salt does it's job slowly absorbing and pulling moisture away from the meat. These guys could lose up to half it's body weight.

It was a wet mess and I do my own photography so you'll just have to imagine the pork water.

As you can see in this close-up this bone used to be even with the meat and now it's about a inch higher than the meat line.

Then they get wrapped up again. I've also bought more ice.

Oh and this happened:

A flesh wound, no blood, didn't even notice at first. I think when I was moving the slate tiles, a scratched myself on a loose slate chip.