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Main Discussion Area => Cooking Forum => Topic started by: ptaylor on September 08, 2015, 09:32:39 pm

Title: black bears
Post by: ptaylor on September 08, 2015, 09:32:39 pm
75 pounds of bear sausage, 3 types: chorizo, herb garlic, and breakfast sausage.
Title: Re: black bears
Post by: bowandarrow473 on September 08, 2015, 09:46:49 pm
Dang, that's alot of meat.
How's bear taste? I have heard it is delicious but I have no need to kill one.
Title: Re: black bears
Post by: ptaylor on September 08, 2015, 10:06:19 pm
The flavor of black bear meat is really good. But because of trichinosis (like pork) you have to cook it well, which toughens it up. Although, I have had some tender backstraps from a bear, but mostly steaks come out tough. So I've made a lot of stews and other kinds of recipes that call for long slow cooking to break down the meat. This time though I decided to grind up the whole bear into sausage.

The bears around me are all eating acorns, pine nuts, hazelnuts, and berries. I've never eaten a bear that is feeding on salmon, so don't know ho that tastes.
Title: Re: black bears
Post by: Stoker on September 09, 2015, 10:07:59 am
Bear is fine eating.. Makes good sausage and burgers.. I've made ham outta one of the hinds
Thanks Leroy
Title: Re: black bears
Post by: stickbender on September 09, 2015, 03:21:01 pm

     I have a nice sized one hanging around my house, that might be hibernating in a freezer this year, if he is still hanging around the 15th of this month!  Maybe sooner, if my neighbor with the archery bear tag, comes over.  I have had bear meat once, and it was very good.  Had some fried, and some broiled.  The fried was the better of the two.  To me it tasted like a cross between, beef, and venison.  I understand, that the flavor depends on what the bear has been eating.  It it has been feeding on something that has been dead a few days, you might, as well just take the hide, and skull, and leave the meat.

                                   Wayne