Bear fat
- Thread starter Waterfowler
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French pastry chef's prefer bear lard to everything else. I threw out buckets of beautiful sheets of bear fat this spring, was too busy to deal with it, but I think next year I will bag and freeze it and do the rendering over the winter. For three decades I always rendered the fat, but fell away from it with the busyness of dealing with all the bears. Once in a while a discerning client will request the fat from their bear.
Spring bear. About 30lbs of fat off it.
I've never really used much other than store-bought vegetable oil type crap.
Smells a bit like french fry oil, but there was no taste to the fish I did at all from it.
Hollow Point
CGN Regular
- Location
- New Brunswick
I always wanted to try this. is there any threat of trichinosis or other parasites from the fat?
Rendered 2 or 3 times gets all color and crispy's out of the lard.
No parasite lives through the rendering process.
Not sure if the dishwasher (wife) would like grease in my coffee cup!!
Trich is a worm in a case that the case breaks down in your intestines releasing the worm to perforate your intestines and travel to a muscle. Any muscle be it heart, arm or leg. Cook all bear meat to 165 degrees to avoid the pain of the next critter to eat you, undercooked!
No parasite lives through the rendering process.
Not sure if the dishwasher (wife) would like grease in my coffee cup!!
Trich is a worm in a case that the case breaks down in your intestines releasing the worm to perforate your intestines and travel to a muscle. Any muscle be it heart, arm or leg. Cook all bear meat to 165 degrees to avoid the pain of the next critter to eat you, undercooked!
There are freezer resistant strains of Trichinosis (Trichinellosis).
I always cook bear meat to 165°F and hold there for 3-5 minutes.
The fat from under the skin was traditionally used for medicines and salves, whereas the fat from inside the bear was traditionally used for cooking.
Elders would use bear fat for dandruff and for rubbing into hands and feet to aid with aches and pains of arthritis and improving circulation (grizzly fat preferred for this). Side benefit was soft, supple skin, and hands and feet that did not get as cold in the winter!
Elders would use bear fat for dandruff and for rubbing into hands and feet to aid with aches and pains of arthritis and improving circulation (grizzly fat preferred for this). Side benefit was soft, supple skin, and hands and feet that did not get as cold in the winter!
Highly doubt it. It is boiled off pretty good.
