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Process & Cook Your Game Meat The Right Way
Hank Shaw is THE guy to help you process and cook your wild game correctly. He'll make your food taste better, your meat safer and your process more efficient. Hank and Brad cover a lot of wild game cooking and preparation topics including: freezing and thawing meat, what knives you need to properly make your deer cuts, reactive vs. non-reactive pans, and crockpot vs. dutch ovens. They also end the show with the almighty thermometer debate so stick around for that! https://youtu.be/M-rs8HQRR-k...read more
How to Field Dress & Prepare Wild Game Meat with THE Hank Shaw
So you punched your tag for a game animal now what? There are a million ways to screw up your wild game in the field and Hank Shaw explains not only how to handle wild game meat in the field, but also how to handle it at home. Hank Shaw shares the knives you need for field dressing and butchering, saving meat from a gut shot animal, butcher paper versus vacuum seal, and finally how to properly thaw your meat—which we could all learn a thing or two on. Hank Shaw is a James Beard Award-winning author and chef that focuses all of his energies on wild foods: Foraging, fishing, hunting. Hank writes cookbooks and he even does a podcast, too. If it’s wild game, fish or edible wild plants and mushrooms, Hank Shaw is your guy. https://youtu.be/mK81ey3NOuE...read more
What's the Best Smoker for Wild Game Meat (2021) | Ceramic, Offset, or Pellet?
You can't eat the horns but you can and SHOULD eat as much of the wild game meat you can get from your taken animal! Cooking that meat to delicious perfection will make your future pursuits even more fun each time you go. Brad will be covering the main reasons to add a smoker into your arsenal, the differences between the main types of smokers, the pros and cons to the ceramic smoker and who should consider them, the pros and cons of the offset smoker and who should consider them, the pros and cons of the pellet smoker and who should consider them, and more!...read more
How to Start Camping
Camping is for everyone, you just need to know a few things before you give it a go. Earl B Hunter, Jr. from Black Folks Camp Too joins Gearbox Talk to explain how to choose the right style of camping for you, common mistakes camping newbies make, Earl’s favorite way to prep camp food, choosing the right backpacking bag, and how to keep a campsite safe....read more
Deer Processing - How to Cut Knuckle Roasts
Wild game chef, Jeremiah Doughty, gives us a demo on how the cut the venison knuckle roast to get the most meat from the deer. The deer knuckle is a cut of meat from the hind leg of the deer that is perfect for roasts or deer steaks. ...read more
Recipe: Gameburger Helper
Gameburger Helper - It’s as quick and easy as the boxed stuff, but tastes way better! As a kid I remember running down the boxed food aisle at the grocery store and begging my mom for a box of Hamburger helper. Im not going to lie, I still crave this boxed meal on cold nights when I want and easy, tasty meal. So here is my copycat version. The best part is you can use this same recipe even if you don’t have any game meat like venison, elk or moose. Just use domestic meats and eat better than box. Feel better, by knowing what goes into your dinner. ...read more
VIDEO: How to Remove Venison Shanks
From Field to Plate's wild game chef, Jeremiah Doughty, shows how to remove venison shanks when butchering a deer. Check out the video for the detailed cuts....read more
Recipe: Braised Venison Shanks
When processing deer, some people tend to toss the deer shank aside or throw in the grind pile as it can be a tough piece of meat. The key to cooking shanks is low and slow. Here’s how to braise venison shanks so they easily fall apart....read more
VIDEO: How to Remove the Hidden Tenderloin from a Deer Leg
From Field to Plate's wild game chef, Jeremiah Doughty, shows us how to remove the hidden tenderloin/eye of the round from a deer. Check out this quick, step-by-step video on processing deer....read more