Survival Instructor Teaches How to Preserve Meat in Wilderness: Survival Food Rations

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[algernoncalydon]

Done a lot of bear meat in the summer in Alaska. The smoke is a way of keeping the flies from laying eggs on the meat. a person can even skip the smoke by using a salt and pepper mix to roll the meat in, providing one has hot days. One can do it in a rain forest like Southeast Alaska by using a tarp to keep heat and smoke in(using alder). The key is to not let the temp get too high. Another important factor is that the pieces of meat need to be turned or the part that touches the sticks will taint and turn green and get ptomaine. So turn the meat every four hours or so.

[incredulouskirk]

I like that you didn't waste my time w a bunch of useless jabbering. You got right to it and gave it straight. This is very useful. Thank you so much for the info.

[SoloRenegade]

more of this longer-term survival knowledge & skills, please!

[velvetbees]

Several decades ago when I was in second grade, I stayed for a while with some native friends in Alaska. They had an old driftwood smokehouse for smoking salmon and seaweed. It's the best smoked salmon I ever had. It tastes far better than what you can buy in a store. It was real smoked salmon the way it was done for thousands of years.

[leehiller]

Using the deer hide to make up the smoke cover allows for a preserved hair on hide. This can be used as a sleeping mat or blanket through the depths of winter and early spring until it taints.

[kathryncolton]

This is just what I was looking for! With so much uncertainty in the air, I’m doing everything I can to prepare my family against grid collapse. Starting to look into more ways to preserve meat that doesn’t require electricity ❤

[darkbulb]

Survival meat preservation, all needed materials already in the woods, another pile of useful rudiments! Us newbs truly appreciate the way you teach as much as what you teach.

[MrAdamNTProtester]

One improvement on this is to build your fire in a pit lined with stone so that the heat is radiant & maintains a more uniform temp, that way your pine branches or whatever that you sub the canvass for has way less chance of bursting into flames during the process... as a bonus when the meat is turned into your good jerky [hopefully you brang some himalayan sea salt & pepper!] the HOT ROCKS can be removed & placed into a pit in your shelter floor or underneath your raised wood sleeping platform... those hot rocks then keep you warm with radiant heat during the night!

[jackvoss]

It’s called making jerky. It is critical to trim off all fat. Brining it in salt water a few hours first will help too.
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[bringer-of-change]

Definitely time consuming, but worth it. That's part of why it's good to have a team/group so someone can do stuff like this and maintain it while others are doing other things around camp.

[KettleCamping]

An excellent and practical way to preserve meat and you presented it very well. Meat preserved this way has an incredible shelf life, not to mention being tasty, lightweight and highly portable. Great video! Cheers!

[superman-rpfu]

I know you guys are doing this because its something you enjoy and to build a but I hope people are thankful because they have no idea how LIFE SAVING channels/videos like these can be in a SHTF scenario! Thanks for giving your time to possibly give others MORE time!

[lv]

An optional step is to stack rocks (size of your hand) over the embers. This will filter the smoke and improve taste

[LaurenMiddleton]

This guy is the real deal he actually teaches Delta Force Operators/Green Berets how to survive in the wilderness for weeks at a time..

[willdenoble]

I did this once in Kansas on Ft Riley. Made with a camo tarp and a tepee similar to this but a little bigger. Came back just about 30min before MPs showed up to “put the dangerous fire out”. When they tasted the smoked trout (yes stocked but who cares), they left without incident. Victory. I find it best to saw the wood into 4-6” pieces before splitting it once, soaking in River water, and then feeding the coals one log every 4 hours or so.

[margiechism]

| BEST | Best 7 minute survival cooking I have ever learned. Thank you.

[jamesdagmond]

Reminds me of the tale of Christopher McCandless. He went into the Alaskan wilderness without this skill and then starved to death because of it. The man killed a caribou at one point, but all the meat went bad within a couple days. This really is one the the most important survival skills you could know.

[nelliesfarm]

Excellent info !!! We need to learn as much as we can while there's still time.i discovered that if you give your hens hot water in the winter, they will keep laying eggs in the cold weather !! I'm going to be making a video about it soon.

[fredflintstone]

Been doing this in the woods thirty years and still learning thanks my friend from another Forrest

[VitomirMilosevic]

Real knowledge here. People should learn how to survive in nature fast, cause soon this will be the paramount thing to know! Love&respect from a Balkan native.