Food 

What is the best way to preserve food?

Are you tired of your food going towaste? Freeze drying could be your answer. There are a few different ways of preserving food. First, you can dehydrate. A dehydrator uses heat to slowly dry out food. The heat ends up destroying a lotof the foods’ nutritional value and shrinks and toughens the food. And most foods can’t even be dehydrated, like soup, cheese and ice cream. You can also try home canning. Canning also uses heat which,once again, destroys nutrition. Canning is hot, messy and requires careful attention to detail.…

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General Survival 

How to win at evolution and survive a mass extinction | Lauren Sallan

Congratulations. By being here,listening, alive,a member of a growing species,you are one of history’sgreatest winners –the culmination of a success storyfour billion years in the making. You are life’s one percent. The losers,the 99 percent of specieswho have ever lived,are dead –killed by fire, flood, asteroids,predation, starvation, ice, heatand the cold math of natural selection. Your ancestors,back to the earliest fishes,overcame all these challenges. You are here becauseof golden opportunitiesmade possible by mass extinction. It’s true. The same is trueof your co-winners and relatives. The 34,000 kinds of fishes. How…

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General Survival 

I Survived 100 Days of Hardcore ARK Extinction and this is what happened.

yo guys it’s your boy mr rums here  today i’m here to take you on a journey through my 100 day playthrough of ARK extinction  not just any simple playthrough of ARK extinction but a hardcore playthrough  where we’re only allowed one life whether it be by our hands or the hands of a dinosaur or the  unforgiving environment and flora and fauna of arc extinction before we get into it i’d like to  give a quick shout out to two people luke the notable and zany zebra both early adopters of  the 100 day hardcore playthrough series and both true legendary…

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Food General Survival 

How can you tell if a mushroom is poisonous?

– Hi, it’s Doug!Have you ever found amushroom growing in the wild?Well, this guy in the countryof Zambia found what might beone of the biggest mushrooms in the world. And best of all, it’sone that’s not poisonous. He could eat it. Someone named Isaiah has aquestion about mushrooms. Let’s give him a call now. – Hi, Doug. – Hey, Isaiah. – I have a question for you. How do you know if amushroom is poisonous or not?- Ooo, that is a great question. Mushrooms aren’t just somethingyou can find at…

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Food General Survival 

How can you tell if a plant is poisonous?

– Hi, Doug. – Hi, Landon. – I have a question for you. How can you tell if a plant is poisonous?- That’s a great question. There’s probably lots of food from plantsthat you love to eat. Maybe you like strawberriesor carrots or raspberries. I’m guessing most of these are thingsyou get from the grocery store. All of the foods fromplants in the grocery storegrow in the wild, too, butdefinitely not all of the plantsyou can find in the wild are safe to eat. You might have heard thatsome plants…

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Food 

How to Field Dress a Deer with Steven Rinella – MeatEater

At Meateater, one of the most common questionswe get is how to gut a deer. This example we have laying right here is a Coues deer buck,a desert white tail. The fundamentals, what I’m showing you right now, about gutting are standard for all horned and antlered game. You can gut it the way I’m going to show you if you’re going to pack the whole thing out in pieces. You gut it this way if you’re just going to drag it across a forty acre field to your truck.…

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General Survival 

How to Survive a Sinking Ship, According to Science

You’re enjoying a nice dayon an ocean cruise. You’re relaxed and secure. Too bad that a rogue wave, human error, high winds,or a mechanical failurejust ruined your trip. Suddenly, a huge spray ofwater douses your clothes. People are rushing around shriekingand falling over deck chairs. The floor underneath your feet is lurching. Your ship is sinking. So, how do you survive?Here’s how to withstand thedanger of a sinking ship,Long before a potential disaster strike,there are steps you can takein order to be prepared. the captain or a crew member willgive…

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Food 

How to Gut a Fish

Thou shall hev a fishy on a little dishy,Thou shall hev a fishy when the boat comes in. The first thing we have to do is to get all the scales off the fish. This can be quite a messy procedure so I’d like to do it under running water. I’ll just take a knife. An ordinary dinner knife and run it down the fish. That’s fine. I’ve taken all the scales off right from the tail all the way up tounder the head here and along the back. Now…

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Food 

Processing Meat Rabbits – How to Skin and Gut a Meat Rabbit for Fur and Meat

Unknown: First I’m gonna takethe ears offCut them. How do you know whereto cut?I feel where the cartilage is. Okay. And just there. These go for dogs. So you place all the pieces inone bag. Yeah. And I’m gonna take tails. These are gonna be key chains. Then I’m gonna take the headsoff. You could use large gardenscissors and just crunch them. Or you can use knife it’s a bitharder with a knife becauseyou’ve got to find that rightspot. So don’t just push on the bone. And you’ve got to…

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Food 

How to Skin and Clean a Rabbit — Steven Rinella MeatEater

I’m going to show what’s up with breaking down a cottontail rabbit. and making it, you know, totally ready for whatever kind of recipe you do. As an herbivore, they have a pretty big gut and they go–they get sour quick. So even if it’s cold out, like now, it’s below freezing, this thing would start to get–It would start to green up if you didn’t gut it right away. I’m going to totally clean him for cooking. I don’t need to worry about gutting him first. You just want…

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