Smoking Meat Over the Fire – Primitive Survival Skills

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Jim Baird Adventurer – Primitive Winter Survival – How to Smoke Meat Over the Fire Cooking: Wilderness techniques used in primitive winter survival camping from Alaska to Labrador and in between include preserving meat. It has always been a key traditional survival skill. Here, I’m camping under a lean-to tarp off-the-grid in the woods and I smoke some whitetail deer venison that my friend and I harvested the previous fall. This isn’t really over the fire cooking or a catch and cook vid as you don’t want to cook the meat when smoking it, rather, you want to slowly dry it.

Entering the shoulder season, when temps can fluctuate above and below freezing means that meat stored outdoors will thaw and refreeze multiple times causing it to spoil. This is a good time to preserve your meat by smoking it. I use a tipi smoker here which will give the same results as a store-bought electric smoker, only you have to monitor it more closely. As mentioned, with this process, you’re using the heat of the fire to slowly dry out the meat. The smoke has a curing effect but is most important in summer to keep the flies off of the meat as it dries. Smoke also gives the meat a delicious, mouth-watering flavour. Because of these reasons, I chose to use dry maple wood to smoke the venison and did not focus on creating a smoky fire. it’s a miss conception that you need a smoky fire to smoke beat because, you’re not really smoking it, you’re drying it. A smoky fire will give the meat too smoky of a flavor. This is particularly true if using spruce or any type of evergreen to smoke meat. Because evergreens are usually more resoney, their smoke has a stronger taste. To compat this, you need to make sure that you use bone dry sprcue (or any type of evergreen wood) when you’re smoking meat with it. You can tell if the wood is dry by selecting standing dead trees with the bark falling off of them.

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