Who uses bear grease to cook food?

Joe Rogan

I saw this

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While the technique is rare today, bear fat was a common ingredient for centuries, though one with a unique hangup. As with all omnivores, bears’ fat takes on the general flavor of their diet. In early fall, when nuts, berries, and acorns dot North America’s forests, Shaw writes, bear fat is “sublime … virtually indistinguishable from the finest pork lard you can buy or make.” The fat of blueberry-eating bears in Montana, for example, assumes sweet, fruity hints and a slight purple tinge. But if a bear most recently ate fish or suburban garbage, the lard takes on a briney odor that ranges from low-tide to truly vile.

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I guess the commercial stuff is harvested at the right time. I would try it out, but if it isn't that much different than pork lard I don't see the point.

When trying too hard goes wrong

I use a couple of teaspoons of motor-oil sometimes but I've never tried bear oil. The piquant flavor of motor oil adds good flavor to certian cuts. Everyone should try it.

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The Bear meat I ate was pretty damn tasty.

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Same. It was years ago though

Steve riniella cooks with it routinely and renders it for later. Who sells it? Not sure how you’d be able to harvest enough to sell

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Steve riniella cooks with it routinely and renders it for later.

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Speaking of, Steve and Seth Morris are actually in Grand Isle right now.

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I use a couple of teaspoons of motor-oil

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non-synthetic, I hope

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Steve riniella cooks with it routinely and renders it for later. Who sells it? Not sure how you’d be able to harvest enough to sell

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Steve "Trichinella" Rinella. Because of that man I know to cook bear meat to 160 F. Probably would go over just to be safe.

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No I don’t live in the woods of far north Canada

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There's bears in Louisiana