Bear Roast Stew | Rendering Fat | Maple Cutting Board | Corn Bread on the Woodstove

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Off grid cooking in the wilderness on the open fire or woodstove often involves wild game, natural materials and primitive techniques, including things like black bear meat, rendering fat for valuable cooking lard and grease for waterproofing and healing, making cutting boards out of maple trees and regulating hot fires for cooking things like corn bread on the wood stove.

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this is a bear roast there's two small roasts here actually cooking them both so all I'm adding is salt pepper pepper flakes garlic and onion and it's been four o'clock right now so I'm going to just put that on top of the wood stove about two two and a half hours till that's cooked all the way through American Kerry try kenosis which is a parasite that pigs used to carry in North America quite a bit probably wild one still do so you have to cook it thoroughly all the way two hundred and eighty degrees or more so that's what I'll do I'll put that on the stove until it's cooked all the way through but probably well not all the way through so what halfway through what I'll do is add carrots beets and and potatoes and those can cook reading the pot with the roast so put that on now and I'm going to do something else with the some beef tallow that I had off I'll show you what I get how to render it all right that's the last of the cut into little pieces so what I did is I pull the membrane off of the fat and then cut it down to one inch cubes are smaller so that the fat renders it melts rather than burns it's what I want to do is basically get rid of all the solids out of the fat so by and we're separating the oil and the solids so I'll end up with is the oil and that'll harden back up again and become basically lard and that can be used I can use that for all kinds of things I'll use it for cooking makes great replacement for lard or vegetable shortening in pastries and creams and stuff I'll use it for face cream but also use it for water proofing some of my other stuff so very very useful stuff it's probably as well it's definitely as valuable I'd say it's probably more valuable than the meat the lot of calories in here and a lot of uses for it so put that on the stove and I need to just keep an eye on it to make sure that it doesn't burn if it burns it gives it a an off flavor so I want to slowly simmer this I put a little bit of water in the bottom just so it wouldn't burn but you don't actually need that once the grease fills the bottom of the pan

as long as you don't overheat it too much that grease will melt everything else down with a wood burning so I'll find a place on the stove right now beside the roast [Music]

that's dirt and smoke actually so that was done yeah big time so what's that those are crackling so which is what they are now basically it's the fat that oh the liquid fats been rendered atoms so it's mostly solids left once that starts to smoke then it's done I actually was just clearing this pan so I can use it for something else but just happen to time at exactly right I was wondering why there was a little bit of smoke in here so I'll string that off after it [Music]

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this is a bear roast with potatoes carrots gravy and cornbread I think I've only made cornbread once in my life and I think this from a package actually so I think he could have been cooked a little bit longer but I think that oven setup actually works quite well that's a turkey roaster I've had that for years and years and years it's been up here since I started I think I've actually cooked out or did dishes in it yeah I've been using that for camping dishes for decades I guess with my daughters and my wife you know as soon as I started coming up here and I brought it up to the property so it's been here for that amount of time never thought to use it as an oven though so that worked out perfectly a few people have asked what bear tastes like it's very much like roast beef in fact I've served it many times to people that had no idea what it was didn't didn't ask they didn't care really you know when they they know what I'm cooking that it's good chance that it's going to be well cane but they just assumed it was roast beef and that's what it tastes like it's very lean most of it and you just have to cook it well what you'd normally with roast roast or what beef I would make it more rare but I can mention earlier there's a parasite set potentially Farrah's parasites that you need to kill by heating it up to a high temperature so if you haven't tried it I highly recommend it bears are very populous in Ontario and a lot of parts of Canada so there are very sustainable game animal

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