Preservation Tips?

[lemonlime571]

Anyone have any info on preserving freshly killed game/meat/animals without refrigeration(I'm thinking in a hiking and camping-bare bones scenario)? Links and info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

 

[Twigg]

I was going to suggest you browse the Survival forum but I see you've already found it.

Try here.

 

[lemonlime571]

all the links involve canning... I was hoping to avoid that topic as it has been discussed already. Any info?

 

[Twigg]

Without canning wouldn't that leave just drying and salting as options ?
Not trying to be obtuse, just looking for more info as to how you want to do this.

 

[pernox]

Smoking is the most viable method in a survival type situation, IMHO. Tastes great if done well, lasts for a year or better, and the actual facilities to do such a thing require some space and effort to construct, it can be done without an excess of tools or professional skills. Once my better half and I move off of our quarter-acre place here in town and out to "the country" the first thing I'm going to build is a nice meat smoker.

These links should come in handy - I'd also recommend this book that contains detailed instructions, plans for various smokers, and many other different points of interest on food preservation.


http://labs.ansci.uiuc.edu/meatscience/Library/smoking.htm

http://hv.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=0013xU

http://www.answers.com/topic/smoked-meat

 

[Mike-Mike]

Great info! rep point added.

Smoking is the most viable method in a survival type situation, IMHO. Tastes great if done well, lasts for a year or better, and the actual facilities to do such a thing require some space and effort to construct, it can be done without an excess of tools or professional skills. Once my better half and I move off of our quarter-acre place here in town and out to "the country" the first thing I'm going to build is a nice meat smoker.

These links should come in handy - I'd also recommend this book that contains detailed instructions, plans for various smokers, and many other different points of interest on food preservation.


http://labs.ansci.uiuc.edu/meatscience/Library/smoking.htm

http://hv.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=0013xU

http://www.answers.com/topic/smoked-meat

 

[K-DUB]

How about pemmican, jerky, salt preserving, etc...

Try this link. http://www.backwoodshome.com/article_index.html#fr

 

[pernox]

Great info! rep point added.

Thanks, Mike! Always glad to share helpful info, especially seeing how much of it I've gotten from here in the last couple months!

 

[doobie]

Since people have brought up smokers...anyone on here have a smoker and want to provide recommendations?

 

[jwilson]

Since people have brought up smokers...anyone on here have a smoker and want to provide recommendations?

Try asking Billk he smokes atleast 4 -5 times a week!


Try this for preserving. this is how they did it in ancient times
http://lemur.cit.cornell.edu/~jules/preserving.html




k

 

[C-pher]

Since people have brought up smokers...anyone on here have a smoker and want to provide recommendations?

If you're ever close, and want to learn how to smoke foods, let me know. We'll spend the better part of a day or more going over that. Depending on what you're wanting to smoke, it can be 30 minutes to 30 hours.

 

[matt]

Since people have brought up smokers...anyone on here have a smoker and want to provide recommendations?

There's a thread or two in the OT forum.

 

[Fritz the Cat]

Biltong For Breakfast - A Cooking Show that Doesn't Suck

We are two food geeks that refuse to bake cakes or other fufey crap, join us for a lot of drinks, banter, lots of meat, good times, grilling and just having fun

www.biltongforbreakfast.com

I would suggest making biltong, at least with some of it. I've always liked jerky in various forms and these videos are a great place to start