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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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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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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Food 

How To Fillet Every Fish | Method Mastery | Epicurious

– I’m Mike Cruz, Manager ofGreenpoint Fish Wholesale,and I’m here to show youhow to filet every fish. To filet fish, I usuallyhave around three kniveswith me, depending onthe size of the fish. One of these butcherknives, it’s really goodfor cutting through heads. This seven inch curved filet knife,and a little five inch guy. You also need a pair of scissors,a steel to keep yourknife sharp, a scaler,and a good pair of tweezersto get those pin bones out. Sardine. I think people kind ofthink of sardines assomething grandpa has in a…

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7 Days Hunt in the Wilderness ASMR (Silent) | Catch and Cook Wild Birds

Welcome to Northern Ontario, Canada. This is a roughed grouse. She is aggressively protecting her young. She has them cached in the woods. This is spring, so the hunting season is not yet open. She is calling to her young to re-assemble. Now, in the fall, the young disperse and the hunting season is open. I need to wait until the grouse clears the front of the canoe. If I shoot now, I’ll put a big hole in it. Grouse far up North, are not very pressured and will ‘sit’…

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Food 

Pellet power & performance – hunting feral pigeons in the farmyard

You don’t have to be a game chef like MarkGilchrist to appreciate that no-one wantspigeon poo in their sandwiches. But when theskies start to darken thanks to bird numbersaround wheat storage barns it’s time to sendsome of them to the big grain store in thesky. So you have got a few pigeons here. Got a lot of pigeons, a lot of ferals nowbuilt up over a long time now. What sort of problems do they cause you?We are in various schemes that we are notreally allowed to have any sort…

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